Intro Paragraph: “... they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.” (119) Said Miss Maudie to Jem. “That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (119) Lately‚ there has been a lot of discussions deciding if To Kill A Mockingbird should be taught in school. Based on its incredible morality and true life stories the book should still be taught in schools. For 56 years Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird has been an inescapable fixture of America’s civic religion. Critics Stephen Metcalf and
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To Kill a Mockingbird Chapter Questions Chapter 1 1. Maycomb is a slow‚ tired town with an incredible assortment of citizens. But‚ all of them are typical small town personalities: the gossips‚ the hicks‚ the poor‚ the upper-class‚ the boogeyman‚ etc. Atticus is a lawyer‚ a “satisfactory” father and supportive of his family. Jem is the typical older brother and Scout the typical younger sister. They are best friends. Yet fight/argue plenty. 2. Dill is small for his age‚ with white-blond hair and
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To Kill a Mocking Bird Essay In the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird Harper Lee uses the characters Boo‚ Scout‚ Jem‚ and Dill to illustrate the theme of innocence and courage. Throughout the this novel‚ Jem‚ Scout‚ and Dill find ways to use the limits with their imaginations‚ to amuse themselves. The children seem to be the ones who change the old town and make it full of unexpected events. The adults of the novel also play games that come from their imaginations
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“Get Miss Maudie’s goat” (p.44) An expression meaning‚ “to annoy someone jokingly.” Uncle Jack asks Miss Maudie to marry him every Christmas and she always answers back with a joke and always says no. Miss Maudie takes it exactly how Jack says it‚ as a friendly reoccurring joke between two friends. 3. “Nothing to buy and no money to buy it with” (p.5) This refers to the stock market crash that led to the Great Depression; People lost most of their life savings during that time. In Maycomb‚ there
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is a disease‚ and everyone catches it at some point. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a widower named Atticus Finch with his two children Scout and Jem‚ are in the prime time of segregation‚ the 1930’s. Atticus is a very serious lawyer that is presented with an intense rape case. Scout and Jem are tasked with the process of growing up. The most important messages in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ are growing up‚ individual Vs society‚ and the dangers of ignorance. Growing
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To Kill A Mockingbird—Response Harper Lee’s book‚ “To Kill a Mockingbird‚” is‚ in my opinion‚ a book with a diverse collection of messages‚ skillfully woven into an interesting and engaging story. It seems to me‚ though‚ that the book is very focused on symbolism. The symbol of mockingbirds is reoccurring in the book. It appears in the title‚ it is suggested in various characters and situations‚ and in parts of the book it is stated explicitly. For example‚ on page 90‚ Atticus told Scout and Jem
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darwins finches While spending time studying species on the Galapagos Islands Charles Darwin noticed some considerable differences between the finches varying from island to island. “Charles Darwin was the first to see reason in the creation of different species‚ instead of just assuming they appeared out of nothingness.”(Darwin 169). Darwin was also the first to understand and correctly explain how these differences occurred. “Although Darwin understood why there were these differences in the
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To Kill a Mockingbird Essay Jacob Salazar 5/17/11 3rd Pd. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird there are a lot of interesting people with different characters. There are those who are brave and those who are cowards. For example Atticus is the bravest character and his son Jem is also brave. On the other hand there are the disgraceful people like Bob Ewell who is the coward. There are several events that take place in the book that show the characteristics of each of these three characters
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Interpretive Essay To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel about a young girl‚ her brother‚ a close friend their adventures in finding Boo Radley‚ and growing up in a prejudiced society. The book’s main character‚ Jeane-Louise Finch‚ nicknamed Scout‚ is shown how cruel and unfair the world can be‚ especially southern Alabama during the Great Depression. The reader is given a very good idea of how difficult courage was to come by at this time. To Kill a Mockingbird portrays great courage‚ for
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have somebody that they have faith and courage in. Someone who they can rely on in about every situation. In Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Miss Maudie says‚ “Whether Maycomb knows it or not‚ we’re paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple” (316). When the citizens are in need of somebody to help‚ the town of Maycomb always searches for Atticus Finch because they know he is the perfect man for any task that he is called upon to endeavor. The best
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