other. People have prejudices towards approximately every type of person for some reason or another. Everybody is different‚ and some people take advantage of those differences to discriminate against others. Discrimination‚ in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird‚ is described as the “simple hell people give other people without even thinking” (Lee 269) and all throughout it‚ portrayal of age‚ social class‚ and race prejudgment. As the novel progresses‚ Jem and Scout grow and nurture just like the rest
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In the story To Kill A Mockingbird one of the main characters Aticus who is the father of two is a very complex character. He is a very mature person. For example he defends Tom Robinson. He is a colored man and Aticus is going to be defending him as his lawyer and he feels it is his duty and the right thing to do for this man. People think badly of him and try to hurt Tom Robinson. Another reason Aticus is a mature character is that he does not lose his temper. He especially is very calm around
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and characters can be related to these symbols to add a deeper meaning to the story. Writers can use these symbols to communicate a more profound impression than what they actually engrave on the pages. These unique symbols also help readers relate scenes from the book to other main ideas or stories. Some authors even link these symbols into the title of the book even if some of the symbols aren’t recognized until the end. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Lee uses the mockingbird as a
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To Kill a Mockingbird Characters Comparison Calpurnia vs. Aunt Alexandra By: Patrick Anderson In the book To Kill a Mockingbird I thought that the two characters that would be best to compare would be Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra. I picked these two for a couple reasons. One they are both against each other‚ seeing as Aunt Alexandra wants to fire Calpurnia. Another is they are both alike in a way‚ they are both mother figures in Scouts life. One reason Calpurnia and Aunt Alexandra being
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My report is on To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee which is about a young girl from a sleepy town in Alabama where she finds friendship and her father showing heroic traits even though he’s struggling with his morals. Scout Finch‚ who is the narrator of the story‚ lives with her brother‚ Jem‚ and their widowed father‚ Atticus‚ in the small friendly town of Maycomb‚ Alabama circa 1930s with lots of old ladies baking cakes and town sheriffs saying homely things. Oh‚ and also morphine-addicted
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Character Analysis in To Kill a Mockingbird One of the main themes in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is the contemplation of human behavior. This book asks the question of human goodness and answers it with the childhood experiences of Scout and Jem Finch. Scout and Jem are introduced to prejudice and cruelty throughout the book‚ and Scout shows through these situations that she is independent‚ intelligent‚ and curious. Scout likes to have fun and do things her way. When Aunt Alexandra comes
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Complex Character: Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird Jean Louise Finch‚ also known as Scout‚ like most complex characters in fiction stories‚ changes in Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” In the beginning‚ Scout is a young kid that really doesn’t know what is the right thing and the wrong thing to do. When she is talking to Miss Maudie she mentions that Arthur Radley may have “died and they shoved him up the chimney.‚” (Lee 43)‚ and this irks Miss Maudie. This is because Scout really doesn’t
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“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy that’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” This quote is from Miss Maudie explaining to the children within To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper E. Lee what Atticus their father has said. In this story‚ it is explain from a point of view of a child named Scout. She experiences many difficulties after the Great Depressing. Furthermore‚ her father is called to defend a colored person in a crime he didn’t committed in a town filled with racism
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Very few authors able to introduce real life themes like Harper Lee. The Los Angeles Times calls Lees Pulitzer Prize winning novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ “Memorable… Vivid… a gentle persuasive‚ humor and a glowing goodness.” This is entirely true because Lee is able to introduce various conflicts that happen in present time. In To Kill A Mockingbird‚ Lee denounces prejudice and racist people. Lee tries to open humanities eyes so it won’t make the same mistakes it made
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Character analysis of Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird Scout is a very unusual little girl‚ both in her own qualities and in her social position. She is unusually intelligent in many ways that is far more advanced than the other children who she associates herself with for example she learns to read before she is anywhere close to beginning school‚ and she is unusually confident for her age as you can see from the story she never backs down when it is time for her to fight boys without fear or remorse
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