The roles of women in society during the depression era were quite clearly defined‚ yet To Kill a Mockingbird presents female characters that break these stereotypes such as: Scout‚ Calpurnia‚and Miss Maudie. A southern lady was a precious flower. She was to be at all times feminine‚ polite‚ soft-spoken and gentle. She was to defer to men in all cases. A man was obligated to protect a lady’s virtue even to the point of never using crass language in front of a lady (recall Arthur Radely and his friends
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The Innocence of the World Throughout the early to mid-1900’s‚ a lot of the United States was very racial and there was a lot of segregation towards Blacks. The book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee connects this horrific time frame with a story told from a child’s perspective. Jem and Scout lose their childlike innocence and gain an understanding about humanity through the adventures they go on when they are exposed to how the world really is. The first experience
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about growing in the 1930s in the Southern United States. Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus (a lawyer) in the town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Maycomb is a small town‚ and every family has its social standing depending on where they live‚ who their parents are‚ and how long they have lived in Maycomb. Atticus raises his children by himself‚ with the help of neighbors and a black housekeeper named Calpurnia. Scout is a tomboy who prefers to solve
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Analysis Here‚ Atticus educates his children as to the true meaning of heroism. Mrs. Dubose was a rather cranky and offensive old woman who lived nearby. She spoke out harshly against Atticus‚ and in a fit of rage‚ Jem attacked her flower bed. As punishment‚ he had to read to her every day after school. Unknowingly‚ Jem was helping the woman overcome her morphine addiction. Atticus reveals this to his children after the woman has passed‚ and lets them evaluate the situation for themselves. Atticus
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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Jean Louise Finch‚ also known as Scout‚ has a particularly innate personality. Scout always does what she is told‚ unless she is with her brother Jem. When they are together she does whatever comes naturally to her. Scout is especially good‚ unusually intelligent‚ and remarkably unselfish. Scout has good intentions when planning her actions‚ most of the time. The one exception was when she acted profanely towards poor little Walter Cunningham
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Chapters 1-3 Questions 1. What does it mean to “act responsibly?” Explain what a person needs to do to “act responsibly” in the 1930’s in Maycomb‚ Alabama? Acting responsibly basically means that you have to do the right thing no matter what the situation‚ and you have to be mature and act your age even when you might not like doing so. In the 1930s in Maycomb‚ Alabama if you were a woman‚ for example‚ you would need to stay home and cook the food and clean for the family. You would just always
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Judy Trinh Ms. Rubenstein Academic English I 8 April 2013 Lynching & Lynch Mobs Discrimination is a terrible and unfair act. White men and women are treating African Americans differently because of their skin color or race. Not only did lynch mobs lynch African Americans‚ but they also lynched and abused Chinese‚ Japanese and Italian immigrants. How are they harming other races with discrimination? They harm them by verbally and physically abuse them like kidnapping‚ beating‚ punching‚ shooting
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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee focuses on the challenges of racism during the 1930’s. In the novel a man named Bob Ewell accuses a black man of raping his daughter. Throughout the novel‚ Bob Ewell remains prejudice. Towards the middle of the novel Bob Ewell accuses a black man by the name of Tom Robinson of rape. Bob Ewell sees his daughter kissing Tom and decides to accuse him of rape. At the trial Bob states‚ “-I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin’ on my Mayella” (231). Mr. Ewell has
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In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ a novel by Harper Lee‚ the symbols of the mockingbird and the snowman helped to develop the underlying idea of social and racial prejudice in the text. This idea showed how prejudice can become ingrained within a community and how that can affect innocent people subsequently presenting the idea of innocence. Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is the story of how prejudice‚ when ingrained within a person‚ can cloud and impair their way of thinking. This novel is set in the mid
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of courage)Moral courage: defines it as “the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down” | Arthur Radley | Courage to overcome his fears of interacting with people/step out of his comfort zoneRisks his life to save the childrenSymbol: Mockingbird | Tom Robinson* | Depended on himself to stand up for his own rights (standing firm to the fact that he did not raped Mayella; could have succumbed to pressure and confessed)Knew that the case would not be in his favour since he’s a black but
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