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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2 Way Mirror Many people look at themselves in the mirror everyday to see how they look from the outside. How about the inside? Many human’s today have different appearances then their reality. Harper Lee‚ author of To Kill A Mockingbird‚ drags on the story with many instances where appearances contrast with reality. She uses irony in her novel on several occasions to illustrate the difference between appearances versus reality. Harper Lee demonstrates that reality is not always how it appears
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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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Hastings Secondary School TKAM Mockingbird Symbol Essay Submitted by: Denver Jones Submitted to: Mr. Rogers Course Code: ENG 2D1 Date: April 30th‚ 2012 A mockingbird is a harmless bird that makes the world more pleasant by doing nothing but sing to us and doing no harm to anyone. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the mockingbird symbolizes Boo Radley‚ Tom Robinson‚ Scout and Jem‚ and Mayella Ewell‚ who were all peaceful people who never did any harm. To kill or harm them would be a sin
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be defined by many things‚ people‚ and actions but courage to me is defined the mind‚ or the spirit of one individual that allows one to face danger‚ difficulty‚ or pain without fear. Acts of courage are extremely prevalent in the novel‚ To Kill A Mockingbird. Courage is prevalent in all phases of the characters lives‚ and they have to act upon that in all phases. Throughout the entire course of the novel you will see courage in almost all the characters‚ but I see the most courage out of three characters
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To Kill A Mockingbird Literary Techniques Text Analysis - Novel: TASK: In an essay‚ with close reference to your novel‚ explain how the author uses specific writing techniques to influence the opinions of the reader. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel published by Harper lee in 1960. This book takes the reader back to the 1930’s. She illustrates the theme of Prejudice in the 1930’s all through the eyes of a young girl called Jean Louise Finch. This essay was intended to highlight 3 literary techniques
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Task T: How are the themes of the novel revealed to the reader? In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee employs a variety of narrative tools to reveal the themes of the novel. It is through the insightful reactions of characters to situations that affect them physically or emotionally that give us a deep understanding of the themes that Lee is conveying. It is also through the setting of the novel in the fictional town of Maycomb and in the nonfictional southern state of Alabama in the US that we comprehend
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Growing Up in Maycomb What if people had the chance to look back on their lives and watch their selves grow up? In “To Kill a Mocking Bird” Jean Louise Finch or Scout‚ or scout gets to do just that. During the Great Depression in the small town of Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ The Finches get involved in a whirlwind of prejudices and unfairness which cause Scout to grow up irregularly in comparison to other kids her age. Scout learns more and more about the world as she grows up and she starts to see the war
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To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee “First of all‚” he said‚ “if you can learn a simple trick‚ Scout ‚ you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (p.39) (p. 30 in old edition) In this quotation‚ Scout is chatting with Atticus and Scout tells him that if it was ok with Atticus‚ she wasn’t going to go to school. She says that Atticus should
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“‘You want to grow up to be a lady don’t you?’ I said not particularly.” While reading Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ I was shocked to read Scout Finch reply with these words when her uncle asked her about growing up to be a lady. All throughout the book‚ Scout demeans her own gender. It hurt my heart to think that she was ashamed being called a girl‚ but now I understand why she felt that way. She did not think she could be the strong independent individual she wanted to be just because
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