much suffering and unhappiness. To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel written by Harper Lee. It was written in the early 1960’s about a young girl named Scout and her family about the racism that was provoked in the town. Harper Lee‚ in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ illustrates three main lessons with the Tom Robinson trial: Stand up for what you believe in‚ racism is painful and avoid mob mentalities. One of the most important lessons in To Kill a Mockingbird is to stand up for your beliefs
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In the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ there are two “mockingbirds. One is Tom Robinson‚ the black man on trial‚ and the other is Arthur (Boo) Radley‚ a nice man who was torn by his father’s harsh love. It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird because they don’t cause any harm‚ and they bring joy to others. They are both mockingbirds; however‚ their fates are different. First‚ Tom Robinson is a mocking bird who was killed. Tom goes to trial because he is falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell
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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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To Kill a Mockingbird “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” (Lee). In the Maycomb County there is a lot of whites‚ blacks and even some mixed. There are some that are wealthy and some that are not. Some get along and others do not. Even in a small town‚ they all live so differently. Throughout Harper lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ hypocrisy‚ injustice and evil is envisioned in an adult society
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made the biggest impact on me. This book was written in the late 1800’s and the theme still has deep meaning today. In my opinion‚ the theme of the story is based on the idea that we all have a good side and an evil side. I believe that there are life lessons to this idea. I also enjoyed the theme because I could relate to it in some ways. Dr. Jekyll was a very kind and friendly man‚ unsuspected to be the cause of any evil. However Dr. Jekyll had a dark side bottled up inside him. He succeeded in devising
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Harper Lee and Lorraine Hansberry are two very different authors‚ who wrote two very different works. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about how prejudice and discrimination can lead to an innocent man being convicted of a crime he didn’t commit just because of his skin color. A Raisin in the Sun is a play about how the value of a family can overcome racism in a new town and allow a family to prosper‚ even in the worst conditions. However‚ both of these works deal with racism and discrimination in
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be trusted around our women‚ an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber”[Lee‚ 273]. This quotation reveals how black people were targeted and stereotyped‚ they were not respected and treated as equals. Throughout the novel in To Kill A Mockingbird‚ it reveals around how the white people
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To Kill a Mockingbird Journal Entries Project Steffanie Trout Hypocrisy An example of hypocrisy that really stood out in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” was Mrs. Gates. In the beginning of the novel she told her class about the evil things Hitler is doing in to the Jews in Germany‚ then later Scout overhears her talking about Tom’s conviction and she says that the black folk in the community needed to be kept in their place. For this she is a hypocrite. She acts as though she believes in freedom
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Everyone has two sides good and evil‚ depending how someone how someone is treated shows which side is revealed. Good vs. Evil exist in the poem Beowulf written by an unknown poet.The epic story Beowulf a prince of the Geats‚ defeated three monsters: Grendel‚ Grendel’s mother and the Dragon. In the midst of these battles ‚ he becomes a hero to the Danes who lives in Herot‚ a famous hall built by King Hrothgar. Beowulf vowed to purge Herot of it’s evil. Throughout the story‚the hero Beowulf confronts
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To Kill a Mockingbird In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Harper Lee uses the term ‘mockingbird’ to describe suitable‚ gracious people. Atticus‚ Jem and Scout’s father‚ says that it is alright to shoot and kill a crow‚ but even aiming at a mockingbird would be a sin. Crows represent greed‚ jealousy and evil‚ while mockingbirds represent faultless and pure beings. They first appear when Jem and Scout are learning how to use their shiny new air rifles. Atticus will not teach them how to shoot‚ but
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