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    Sleepy Maycomb‚ like other Southern towns‚ suffers considerably during the Great Depression. Poverty reaches from the privileged families‚ like the Finches‚ to the Negroes and “white trash” Ewells‚ who live on the outskirts of town. Harper Lee paints a vivid picture of life in this humid Alabama town where tempers and bigotry explode into conflict. Throughout the book racism‚ poverty‚ and domestic violence appear as important themes that intertwine with the plot and the characters. The author brings

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    To Kill a Mockingbird Sleepy Maycomb‚ like other Southern towns‚ suffers considerably during the Great Depression. Poverty reaches from the privileged families‚ like the Finches‚ to the Negroes and “white trash” Ewells‚ who live on the outskirts of town. Harper Lee paints a vivid picture of life in this humid Alabama town where tempers and bigotry explode into conflict. The conflicts include racism‚ poverty‚ and domestic violence in the time the book took place. Racism played a pretty big role

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    Book Review of: To Kill a Mockingbird Genre: Fiction/Realism First published in 1960 by William Heinemann Ltd. F Plot To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story of Scout Finch and her brother‚ Jem‚ in 1930’s Alabama. Through their neighbourhood walk-abouts and the example of their father‚ they grow to understand that the world isn’t always fair and that prejudice is a very real aspect of their world no matter how subtle it seems.

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    describing Mr. Ewell as one who took “yearly lavations” (Lee 1966:185)‚ ironic to use such grand language on a man such as himself Lee’s use of light hearted irony provides relief for the reader as well as a balance “to the more serious themes of poverty‚ social injustice and racism” (Carney 2006:8)‚ for example‚ Lee’s description of the missionary ladies as being “bovine” (1966:239) (like cows) during the missionary tea provides humour to the reader‚ however “underlying the humour there is severe

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    Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Lee uses the mockingbird as a symbol to add significance and prominence to the story and characters. In this classic novel‚ there are characters that can be referred to as a mockingbird. By examining the actions of these characters‚ readers can recognize the importance of the mockingbird symbol and understand why Arthur “Boo” Radley and Tom Robinson are both great examples of mockingbirds in To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee’s use of the mockingbird symbol is a

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    Mockingbird: The mockingbird represents innocence. Like hunters who kill mockingbirds for sport‚ people kill innocence‚ or other people who are innocent‚ without thinking about what they are doing. Atticus stands firm in his defense of innocence and urges his children not to shoot mockingbirds both literally and figuratively. The mockingbird motif arises four times during To Kill a Mockingbird. First‚ when Atticus gives Jem and Scout air guns for Christmas and instructs them not to kill mockingbirds

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    Analysis of “To kill a mockingbird” Saryuna Rinchino‚ gr. 02193 The story under analysis is an extract from a novel “To kill a mockingbird”. The book was written by Harper Lee in 1960. Harper Lee was born in 1926 in the state of Alabama. In 1945-1949 she studied law at the University of Alabama. “To kill a mockingbird” is her first novel and after being published it was highly acclaimed and even was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961‚ one of the most important awards in literature. The book became

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    Jacquelyn Thompson English 3 Honors Lynn Blair 1/30/2013 To Kill a Mockingbird The depth behind this novel is too see how Scout has progressed throughout the course of two years. Slowly but surely‚ she realizes the life lessons that have been waiting for her all along. She does this with the help of her family and her community. One man importantly sticks out the most‚ and his name is Arthur Radley‚ but Scout and the children like to call him ’Boo ’. Lee incorporated Mr. Radley to really

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    To Kill a Mockingbird Symbolism is the use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities‚ and is used often in the book to help readers understand central themes throughout the novel. To Kill a Mockingbird has several symbols including Tim Johnson‚ the mad dog‚ who represents racism in Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ the mockingbird which represents innocence‚ and Jem‚ Tom Robinson and Boo Radley‚ who are essentially the mockingbirds of the story. The mad dog in To Kill a Mockingbird symbolizes racism in Maycomb

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    Choose 2 of the texts we have studied and explain how each composer has successfully communicated their message to the responder. In the text To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the ’I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King Jnr‚ both composers have conveyed strong messages that are communicated through narrative and oral techniques. These messages of courage and prejudice and discrimination are what the composer thought is necessary to write in order to change social attitudes towards

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