Truman Capote Essay

To Kill A Mockingbird is considered to be one of the most influential novels in American history. The story takes place in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. It is told through the perspective of Scout Finch, a bright young girl, growing up in the early 1930’s. The plot follows Scout’s summer adventures with her friends and family. Along with an excellent storyline, the book offers insight into major historical experiences, including the Great Depression and segregation. Among other characters…

Although likely meant as a charitable gesture, it was neither necessary nor desired for Aunt Alexandria to come and care for Jem and Scout while Atticus was away at court for the summer. She had told them that it was because Atticus would be often absent, and because the two children were in need of a sort of “feminine influence” in their lives. But, Scout is under the impression that she came to stay because she did not approve of the way Atticus was raising his children, meaning that in…

When I first read the title To Kill a Mockingbird, I was instantly intrigued. At first I wondered how a novel about a bird could be so interesting. Once I researched the mockingbird and discovered it repeatedly mimicked songs of other birds and sounds of insects, I thought To Kill a Mockingbird could be about ending a tradition or belief about a particular thing. The idea of ending a tradition or belief made sense to me given that the novel was set in the Deep South and the South often has deep…

In fact, the novel emphasizes how Scout’s personality is just like Harper Lee’s in her unruly aversion to school. It is mentioned in one source that “As a child, Harper Lee was…unruly…She fought on the playground. She talked back to the teachers. She was bored with school and resisted any sort of conformity” (Harper Lee 1926-2016). By fighting other children, Lee demonstrates how rough and unruly she is. Her boredom with school and conformity causes her to talk back to teachers, just like Scout…

Part 1, Chapter I find it interesting that Scout makes it such a point to recount her family history in the first chapter of this book, no less. She talks of their trades and where they live. She speaks highly of her father, Atticus, and introduces Calpurnia, their cook. Then the reader meets Charles Baker Harris or Dill, as he is more commonly known. He is the children’s chief playmate. Dill is the one who suggests they lure out Boo Radley. I find the children’s fascination and stories of Boo…

To kill a mocking bird To kill a mocking bird was a tragic story full of events depicting the life of people of color in the 1930’ although racism is a very alive theme in the novel it also has a under lying theme and meaning created by Harper Lee’s character,Atticus Finch,in the importants of morals and respect of all people no matter who they look or what they say. Harper lee did a amazing job setting up this theme by making Atticus a poster child for it and showing scout and jem…

It’s always a mystery what other people are going through until you see life from their eyes. Throughout the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” the characters learn maturity as time goes on. Scout, in particular is taught many important life lessons by her family members and neighbors, which leads her to be able to narrate this part of her life as an adult looking back at her childhood. Although Scout gains so much insight on how to treat people in multiple ways, there is one in particular that has…

In Mr. Thoma’s class we read the Novel To Kill A mockingbird (TKAM) by Harper Lee. In this story the main character is a young girl named Scout Finch, as the story goes on Scout and her brother jem come of age after they watched their father defend a colored man in the south named Tom Robinson during the 1930’s. Tom robinson was accused of raping a white women named Mayella Ewell, Atticus Finch the children’s father stated evidence that made Tom Robinson not guilty. on page 225 chapter 17 Bob…

Since Lee was a child, new problems in her town knocked on her front door. This happened quite literally since her father was an attorney. She often accompanied her father’s speeches in the courtroom and analyzed how he approached each case. One case in particular grabbed her attention more than the others. Not only was her father defending a man falsely accused of rape, he was black. This big moment and the little ones around her might’ve inspired her to write “How to Kill a Mockingbird”. She…

In to Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows how her character’s Jem and Scout go through changes in their lives. Harper Lee shows through Scout’s view how Jem changes and how each thing that the two of them went through influenced how they matured. Scouts view shows how the characters and people of Maycomb shaped them into who they were. What would Jem and Scout be without the people in Maycomb and what would they be without the events all around them? The people in Maycomb helped shape Scout…