to it all the way to the last word of the last page it truly is an amazing feeling. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird has many traits that make it a great piece of literature‚ but the three that make it an amazing piece of literature are that it is written in a unique perspective‚ it is written with interesting and vivid language‚ and finally because it is truly a timeless novel. To Kill A Mockingbird is a book that deals with many of the harsh issues in society in the 1960s‚ and because it is written
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To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and brought its first-time author‚ Harper Lee‚ a startling amount of recognition as well as discouragement. The novel retells the three significant years in the life of Scout Finch‚ the young daughter of a Southern town’s lawyer. It has been said that To Kill a Mockingbird was influenced by the Scottsboro Trials of the 1930’s. The novel portrays a society that is supremely and shockingly unfair. Harper Lee has successfully incorporated various traits in
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father’s right. ‘She said’ Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens‚ don’t nest in corncribs. They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.(119) A mockingbird is someone that is innocent and does no harm‚ with the exception of fear. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ she has many mockingbirds in her story‚ but she has just as many defenders of mockingbirds too. Atticus Finch‚
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To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee‚ 1960) Setting: To Kill A Mockingbird is a coming-of-age novel that takes place in Maycomb County‚ Alabama in the 1930’s. Plot Summary: Jean Louise Finch (Scout) starts out to be a very immature child not knowing the prejudice times that surround herself‚ her brother Jem‚ and her father Atticus Finch in the town on Maycomb. Scout must learn to mature as acquaintances accuse her father‚ a lawyer‚ of being a "nigger-lover" for defending a black man in trial
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Blindfold Experience and To Kill A Mockingbird Did you know that you can relate your emotions to a book? While being blindfolded and led are the school I learned that I could relate my emotions to the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (TKAM).The blindfold experience is metaphor for to TKAM because of the emotions like unaware‚ frustrated‚ and terrified that are present in both. Due to being blindfolded and reading TKAM‚ the one of many emotions I could relate to was unaware. I had a curious
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The Importance of Understanding Children are empty cups waiting to be filled‚ filled with understanding. But in order to understand children must first experience. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses the story of a young child to show how children do not understand experiences that are new to them. Harper Lee tells the story from the perspective of a child‚ Scout Finch‚ to show Scout’s lack of understanding in order to highlight a child’s coming of age experiences. Harper Lee uses Scout’s
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The novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is a simplistic view of life in the Deep South of America in the 1930s. An innocent but humorous stance in the story is through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch. Scout is a young adolescent who is growing up with the controversy that surrounds her fathers lawsuit. Her father‚ Atticus Finch is a lawyer who is defending a black man‚ Tom Robinson‚ with the charge of raping a white girl. The lives of the characters are changed by racism and this is the force
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a child grows and matures‚ so does their idea of courage. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird shows this maturation of courage through the protagonist‚ Scout. The novel is set in 1930s south; the town can be compared to most towns of the time where rumors spread and everyone knows everyone else’s stories. This town gossip leads to Scout’s early idea of courage. Scout’s perspective of courage grows from seeing Jem perform a courageous act of touching the Radley house‚ to seeing Atticus take up
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To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb County‚ Alabama‚ during the early 1930s. The Great Depression had taken over the town‚ leaving the people of Maycomb with little to no hope. The prejudice environment was typical for them. Scouts difficulty in growing up has to do with all the prejudice she is surrounded by. Her innocence is exposed to the hatred against people of other races such as Tom Robinson‚ an African American man accused of raping Mayella Ewell‚ a white woman. Seeing the juror’s
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Parijat Singh Beckford-7 English II May 20‚ 2013 To Kill A Mockingbird Literary Analysis Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird shows life through a child’s eyes as she is growing. During the 1930s‚ blacks were thought of lowly than whites‚ no matter class. Women were underneath men and girls were supposed to help around the house. The novel contains many themes‚ including racism and equal rights‚ but one of the less noticed‚ but still very relevant to the plot‚ is the maturing of children and
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