“My mama said life is like a box of chocolates‚ you never know what you are going to get.” In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ she presents us with Scout‚ Boo and Redly who are often misunderstood. In life we have choices where we can follow others‚ or we have can forqe our own paths. Life is a big pot of choices. Scout has a lot of experiences in a asking a questions. “Well how do we know we ain’t Negroes.”(147) during the novel there’s a lot of racism between blacks and whites; the
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Geography is the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmospheres. Foster would classify To Kill a Mockingbird under geography. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during the Great Depression. Alabama was one of the eleven states to succeed the union in 1861. Because the Confederacy lost the war‚ Alabama was forced back into the union. Alabama faced many hardships during the Reconstruction Era‚ the era that took place in the South after the civil war. To make matters
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ASKslsJF:SKDJF:SDF:KSdf Ms. L:F:DLFK:DLKF English 10 Honors 5 December 2012 Racial Injustice in Southern Communities The significant events during one’s life greatly impact their outlook on life. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the author mimics eminent points from her childhood and growing years. The novel took place in Maycomb‚ a small town in the South where racial conflicts were still prominent. Lee’s writing was impacted by the historical influences in her lifetime that
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Kristin Howard To kill a mockingbird by Harper lee The power of Integrity Integrity is having a standard of morals and ethics‚ and living by them. It is a willingness and ability to do the right thing even when it is hard. The story To Kill a Mockingbird is filled with integrity. For example‚ many of the people in Maycomb share a prejudiced sense of integrity when it comes to its racist views. However‚ it is Atticus Finch’s integrity throughout the novel that really embodies the idea of moral
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Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird was a novel that took place in a three year time span during the Great Depression. The main character in the novel is Scout Finch who lives with her older brother Jem and their father‚ Atticus‚ who is a lawyer. Scout and Jem befriend their neighbors nephew named Dill who visits his aunt every summer. The three become interested in the man who never leaves his house in their neighborhood‚ Boo Radley. They hear rumors about the man and in one summer they tell the
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Prejudice cannot see the things that are because it is always looking for things that are not. This is emphasized as one of the main themes in Harper Lee’s novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird. Set in the South during the 1930’s in a small town known as Maycomb County‚ the one of the most important morals‚ the one that all humans are created equal‚ is justified. Prejudice can be shown on a scale from most extreme down to least: genocide‚ expulsion‚ slavery‚ segregation‚ assimilation‚ and assimilation. The
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OUR SURROUNDINGS AND THE PEOPLE IN OUR LIVES SHAPE OUR IDENTITY. Good morning ladies and Gentlemen. Do our surroundings and the people in our lives shape our identity? I will explore how this quotation is reflected in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee‚ the film ‘Witness’‚ by Peter Weir‚ and the film ‘The Lion King’ by Roger Allers. The meaning of identity is not easily defined. Identity generally refers to the stable defining characteristics of a person that makes them an individual
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To kill a mockingbird Essay Scout is quite a character in the book to kill a mocking bird. She goes through many adventures‚ yet many tribulations. She learns a lot of lessons‚ and is taught some values in life on what to do‚ and‚ what not to so. With her being a character with importance in the novel‚ it would be necessary for some of her character traits to be gone over. These are some traits that describe scout. Tomboyish‚ anyone who has ever read to kill a mockingbird knows that scout is
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Prejudice In the book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ prejudice was applied in a realistic way. Harper Lee lived in the south during the 1930’s and knew what true prejudice was like. She illustrated that prejudice is hidden until people feel comfortable enough to express it. In the novel‚ the racism doesn’t grow‚ it is revealed. As Scout grows‚ she realises the amount of prejudice and bigotry in Maycomb. Prejudice is the most explosive theme in the entire novel. There were hints of
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The townsfolk in the story To Kill A Mockingbird don’t really pay attention to who’s actually who. They overlook people who don’t need to be overlooked.They overlook the quiet ones like Arthur “Boo” Radley and they think he’s a creepy middle aged man who has no life and lives in the dark. They all think he’s a bad guy because of the bad childhood he had in the past. Just because someone is quiet or different compared to others doesn’t mean you need to overlook them or listen to rumors about them
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