Mockingbird: The mockingbird represents innocence. Like hunters who kill mockingbirds for sport‚ people kill innocence‚ or other people who are innocent‚ without thinking about what they are doing. Atticus stands firm in his defense of innocence and urges his children not to shoot mockingbirds both literally and figuratively. The mockingbird motif arises four times during To Kill a Mockingbird. First‚ when Atticus gives Jem and Scout air guns for Christmas and instructs them not to kill mockingbirds
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To Kill a Mockingbird Persuasive Essay Everyone makes judgments about others‚ there is no way around it‚ what a person should work on though is not to “snap” judge other people. To Kill a Mockingbird by Haper Lee demonstrates how being quick to judge is wrong. To Kill a Mockingbird is globally known‚ winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and selling over fifteen million copies. To Kill a Mockingbird shows how judging a person before you get to know them generates a hateful‚ prejudice environment based
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Chapter 11 of To Kill a Mockingbird Vocab: 1. umbrage: (noun) pg. 136 offense or annoyance 2. propensities (noun) pg. 144 inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way Quotes: 1. “I wanted you to see what real courage is‚ instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. Courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what” (149). ** This quote is said by Atticus to Jem. It shows how wise
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD ESSAY The novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ explores a year told through the eyes of a ten old‚ in a town called Maycomb‚ it follows the story of an innocent African American man getting accused of raping a girl. This novel is both a story of hope and hopelessness‚ by showing the worst in the people from the town when they choose their sides in the court case of the raping. There are also good signs shown by some people in the novel‚ when citizens of the town believe
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Chapters 1-3 Questions 1. What does it mean to “act responsibly?” Explain what a person needs to do to “act responsibly” in the 1930’s in Maycomb‚ Alabama? Acting responsibly basically means that you have to do the right thing no matter what the situation‚ and you have to be mature and act your age even when you might not like doing so. In the 1930s in Maycomb‚ Alabama if you were a woman‚ for example‚ you would need to stay home and cook the food and clean for the family. You would just always
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or how fine a family he comes from‚ that white man is trash- Atticus Chapter 23 Good _______ boys and Miss Arentz‚ Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mocking Bird depicts various ideas of Justice and Injustice using techniques such as plot structure‚ characterisation‚ symbolism‚ perspective and the Narrative voice. The Narrative voice of Scout is a key literary technique Lee uses to convey the many injustices in To Kill A Mockingbird. By Lee showing the events through a child’s unbiased and innocent eyes
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David Spence Ms.Balton English 1 Honor’s 13 March 2014 Courage (TKAMB) What is courage? Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair or to be brave. In the novel‚ “To Kill a Mocking Bird”‚ by Harper Lee‚ courage is shown throughout book. While not all characters seemed to be courageous‚ one can easily separate the frivolous entities from the immoral ones. Although many characters exhibit this trait‚ Jem‚ Authur Radley‚ and Atticus were the most potent. Jem represents the idea of
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Chapter 1 In this chapter the Finch family is introduced by Scout. Simon Finch established a homestead‚ ‘Finch’s Landing’‚ on the banks of the Alabama River. Both of his sons ended up leaving the landing as‚ Atticus‚ studied law; the other had studied medicine. Their sister Alexandra stayed and took care of the landing with her husband. Atticus moves to Maycomb‚ Alabama where he raises his two children‚ Scout and Jem. These children have always been fascinated by the Radley house because of the
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To Kill A Mockingbird‚ opens with a quaint look on of the hometown of the main protagonist‚ Scout‚ and his family and friends. Scout is a six year-old girl‚ she and her brother‚ Jem‚ live with her father‚ Atticus. Scout has two close friends‚ Calpurnia‚ being a cook‚ and a short naive boy named‚ Dill; of whom Jem and Scout met during one summer. Scout reveals through first person narrative of some social taboo’s in‚ Maycomb; Scout’s residing township: Doors or windows left closed or ajar
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