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At the beginning of the novel in the epigraph the words of Charles Lamb were displayed by Lee stating, “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.” Within her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee establishes the idea that children are free from the racism of American society as they maintain their innocence until their moral education begins. She weaves into the novel that the transition to adulthood in the early nineteenth century in America, especially in the South, caused the development of…

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee demonstrates how many ideas and perspectives have changed in today’s society compared to the 1930s with Scout, the main character. One of the main topics in the novel was gender and gender roles. In the book, gender roles continuously were being enforced throughout with the people of Maycomb, Alabama. Most women stayed at home, dressed up, didn’t go to work while men went to work. So as Scout is growing up, she is pushed by her Aunt Alexandra to act more like…

“Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing” (Harper Lee). From the beginning of her time, she escaped the world of fear and established her own in another style. She predominately showed those around her the obedience she carries. She relished the opinions of others and subdued any blocked pathway to her success. Nelle Harper Lee, known as Harper Lee, became and remains to be an outstanding author of experienced background, relatable history, and polished standards. Strictly one-hundred…

Many authors choose to write what they know about. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, author, Nelle Harper Lee use her childhood life as a model for the book. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in 1930s Maycomb Alabama. The narrator, Scout Finch, is a young tomboy who tells the story of a trial her father, Atticus, and how he chose to defend a black man, regardless of his. The characters and setting of the novel impact the plot in many ways. Lee’s childhood town and family affects the setting…

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by author Harper Lee in the 1960s about the injustice of discrimination, a bildungsroman of three steadily maturing major characters: Jem, Dill, and Scout. The story is set in 1930’s Maycomb County, Alabama, where racial tensions are running high and the rift between black and white is wider than ever. Scout, aged six in the beginning of the book and nine at the end, has a question for everything wrong about Southern society. Dill, who is only a year…

the children wonder, ‘what did the black people ever do to them?’, or ‘why can’t girls become lawyers too?’, and the racist parents can only give answers that are wrong or unspecified. To Kill a Mockingbird is a book written in the 1960s by Harper Lee, a woman who lived in the deep South of America, about the injustice of southern society, discrimination, and three children who decide that maybe that has to change. Jean Louise Finch,…

to show his kindness (Lee). Boo was a very heroic man and didn’t whatever he could to help once when Miss Maudie’s house caught on fire and Scout was watching it Boo snuck over and put a blanket around her. When Boo save’s the kids Scout changed her mind about him and tried to get to know the real person that sacrifices his self and not judge him (Felty). Scout is very curious about things and asks her father Atticus many questions to know about the real things in life (Lee). Scout was always…

Robin to Batman or Luigi to Mario. Sidekicks are rarely the focus of a story though they can still impact a story. They are a friend to the hero and someone who stays behind them no matter how hard things get. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Charles Harris, “Dill”, is a side kick to Jem and Jean, “Scout”, Finch. Dill is a boy who lives in 1930’s Alabama. He lives in the next city over from Jem and Scout called Meridian, and he go to his friends’ home town every summer to live with his…

Miguel Arredondo 6/12/14 #302 BOOK: To Kill a Mockingbird AUTHOR: Harper Lee TASK: Response Journal BACKGROUND: Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, writes about her experience and the events that took place in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. The time period of 1929-1939 was a fretful time in American history known as the “Great Depression,” leaving many Americans unemployed with the crash of the stock market. The Scottsboro Trials had taken place during Lee’s childhood in 1931…

In some books they have characters that gives the book a theme. In the book called To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, she shows the theme of isolation from three characters in a town called Mayacomb, Alabama. The Isolated characters are affected by each event one way or another and these isolated characters are Boo Radley (true name is Arthur Radley), Dill (Charles Baker Harris), and Mayella Ewell. These characters rarely express their true nature Because of their aloofness, but they can show…