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    Prejudice In the book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ prejudice was applied in a realistic way. Harper Lee lived in the south during the 1930’s and knew what true prejudice was like. She illustrated that prejudice is hidden until people feel comfortable enough to express it. In the novel‚ the racism doesn’t grow‚ it is revealed. As Scout grows‚ she realises the amount of prejudice and bigotry in Maycomb. Prejudice is the most explosive theme in the entire novel. There were hints of

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    To kill a mockingbird Essay Scout is quite a character in the book to kill a mocking bird. She goes through many adventures‚ yet many tribulations. She learns a lot of lessons‚ and is taught some values in life on what to do‚ and‚ what not to so. With her being a character with importance in the novel‚ it would be necessary for some of her character traits to be gone over. These are some traits that describe scout. Tomboyish‚ anyone who has ever read to kill a mockingbird knows that scout is

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    Augurusa 1 Christina Augurusa Ms. Lovell ENG 2D 13 December 2013 To Kill a Mockingbird “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” – Winston Churchill. Courage is the ability to do something that others do not agree with‚ but you do it anyways because you know it is the right thing to do. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has many characters that show courage. However‚ one of the main characters‚ Atticus Finch‚ shows a great deal of courage

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    The stylistic elements that an author chooses are instrumental in ensuring that the theme or tone that he or she wishes to convey is in fact conveyed to the reader. Harper Lee obviously realizes this‚ for in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee‚ To Kill A Mockingbird‚ [New York: Warner‚ 1982] 278) she wisely selects a distinctive style to relate the moving story of a young child discovering harsh truths regarding human nature <br> <br>The predominant stylistic element Miss Lee uses is her

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    The townsfolk in the story To Kill A Mockingbird don’t really pay attention to who’s actually who. They overlook people who don’t need to be overlooked.They overlook the quiet ones like Arthur “Boo” Radley and they think he’s a creepy middle aged man who has no life and lives in the dark. They all think he’s a bad guy because of the bad childhood he had in the past. Just because someone is quiet or different compared to others doesn’t mean you need to overlook them or listen to rumors about them

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    Learning Morality Argument: To Kill a Mockingbird Prompt: What factors in our lives and communities can advance or inhibit our moral growth? What kind of experiences help us learn how to judge the difference between right and wrong? It goes without saying that understanding the type of moral development is one of the most important issues facing us today. According to Lawrence Kohlberg‚ moral development consists of three different stages in which the individual responds to. The three stages are

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    Stereotypes of To Kill A Mockingbird In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the novel shows that the society is stereotype‚ because the kids in the novel judge everyone on where they live‚ where they’re from‚ and what they heard of them. That’s why they are showing it from a kid’s point of view because kids don’t think about what they are going to say‚ so they just say it. Everyone in the book shows that they judge everyone on by where they are from or by where they live. Like Walter Cunningham Scout

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    are likely perceived or told wrong. Illusions are found in the novel through the theme of “Step into another’s skin”/ Appearance vs. Reality. Characters and symbols strongly exemplify this theme in multiple ways. In Harper Lee’s book: To Kill a Mockingbird she effectively uses characters and symbols in both hidden and obvious ways to get the theme through to the reader. Characters play a large role in developing the theme. This is shown through Boo Radely‚ Tom Robinson‚ and Dolphus Raymond.

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    What if you were six years old then all of a sudden you’re twenty-five years old. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ there are three main characters Scout‚ Jem‚ and Dill. But Scout is the main role. These kids grew up during the great depression the dust bowl and racism. In this story i’m going to explain how these themes come up in To Kill A Mockingbird they are Evils of racism‚ Female roles and Reunion. The point of this paragraph is going to be about how Scout‚Jem‚and Dill grow

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    Primrose English 1‚ Period 3 Triumph Through Adversity “Success is never final‚ failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.” (John Wooden). To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ is primarily a novel about growing up under extraordinary circumstances in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The narrator‚ Scout Finch‚ lives with her older brother Jem and father ‚Atticus‚ in the small town of Maycomb‚ Alabama. Maycomb is a small‚ close-knit town‚ where everyone knows each other. Atticus

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