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    In truth‚ there are many different ways to be a “lady” by society’s standards. It could entail being born into an old and powerful family‚ or it could simply require you have dignity and empathy‚ regardless of social standing. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird features two very different women who have very different ladylike qualities. Throughout the book‚ those two women help shape Scout’s (the protagonist’s) childhood. Possessing glaringly different personalities‚ Scout nevertheless finds something

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    I watched To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee‚ on Thursday‚ September 29th in OBU’s Verser Theater. To Kill a Mockingbird was completely new to me going into it. I haven’t read or seen the story in any way before‚ therefore I had no idea what to expect from this performance. Judging from the last performance I’ve seen at OBU (Lord of the Flies) my expectations going into this play were very high. The quality of the last play I saw was higher than I initially expected from a small school

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    “To Kill a Mockingbird‚ is a must see.” “The movie‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ does so much justice.” “This movie is a five out of five. The director got everything down to the last detail.” To Kill a Mockingbird‚ is a story told through the eyes of a young girl named Scout Finch (played by Bailee Madison) who grows up in Alabama (Maycomb County) during the Great Depression when blacks and whites were very much segregated. The story revolves around the ideas of racism‚ poverty‚ ignorance

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    TKAM Chapters 17-21-The Trial 1.Why is Bob Ewell so repulsive? How does Lee ensure our dislike? * Lee describes him as a ‘little bantam cock of a man’- bad view of him * Says that he ‘strutted to the stand’- cockiness when his daughter is at court for being raped * Said the ‘back of his neck reddening at the sound his name’- referring to him as a redneck (ill-educated person) * She describes disgusting way in which his family had to live ‘lived behind town in a garbage dump’

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    comes to be. Prejudice is illustrated in many different forms throughout various works of literature. A few skillfully portrayed classics include: Twelve Angry Men‚ a play by Reginald Rose‚ “As I Grew Older”‚ a poem by Langston Hughes‚ and To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a novel by Harper Lee. The aforementioned works all convey messages of racism‚ bigotry‚ and injustice. The play Twelve Angry Men tells a story of a tainted jury nearly sending a nineteen year old from the slums of Chicago to death row with

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    Courage in To Kill a Mockingbird "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...because it is the quality which guarantees all others‚" (Winston Churchill). There are several different ways t be courageous. Harper Lee‚ in her 1960 novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ uses courage as a main theme. Harper Lee demonstrates that if one can tell the truth‚ change or remain rooted in their morals‚ they are a minority among people who lack the ability to do so. In To Kill a Mockingbird there are

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    If I could save one book from extinction‚ I would save To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee because it teaches important morals that were relevant at the time and still are today. It points out the corruptness in the government. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama in 1936‚ during the Jim Crow days where the Klu Klux Klan was prominent as well as the general white supremacist beliefs of many people. This book not only points out the fault in the United States Justice System‚ but it also has

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    Racism is a direct result of ignorance‚ and many of the people in To Kill a Mockingbird were racist‚ and those that weren’t were greatly affected by it. Then there were the Ewells‚ who were ignorant on many other levels too. Even Scout’s schoolteacher‚ whose job it was to impart knowledge‚ was hypocritical and racist! Racism in Maycomb was the norm. Any attempt to deviate from that way of thinking was shunned‚ and you as well as branded on your forehead `nigger-lover’. As Atticus told Scout‚ ."

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    To Kill A Mockingbird Quotes Directions: Know who said the quote‚ who is being spoken to‚ the significance of the quote to the novel or characterization. 1. “Being Southerners‚ it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings” (Chapter 1‚ pg. 3). 2. “He [Atticus] liked Maycomb‚ he was Maycomb County born and bred; he knew his people‚ they knew him‚ and because of Simon Finch’s industry‚ Atticus was related by blood or

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    To Kill a Mockingbird Essay William Hazlitt once said “Prejudice is the child of ignorance”. In To Kill a Mockingbird the author‚ Harper Lee‚ illustrates this idea through real life events. The three main types of prejudice are racial‚ social and gender. As Scout and Jem mature they both see all the evil that is in their small‚ old town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. In Maycomb the same families have been living there for a long time so the same families are passing on their ignorance generation to generation

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