In Chapter 15 of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout’s compassionate actions eliminate the tension of the lynching mob. She asks to Mr. Cunningham,” Hey, Mr. Cunningham, how’s your entailment gettin’ along?”, which shocks and brings him into an uncomfortable environment (Lee). Scout manages to alleviate the tension of the situation when she began to interrogate Mr. Cunningham about the entailment, which leads him to call off the attempted lynching of Tom Robinson. Scout’s compassion to stop the lynching was clear in the chapter, when she asked Mr. Cunningham about his son, it did not phase him, to when she mentioned how bad entailments are.
The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee follows the childhood of Scout Finch. Scout grew up living in Maycomb, Alabama along with her brother Jem and her father Atticus. In the midst of her childhood Atticus was called upon to represent Tom Robinson, a black man living in Maycomb who was accused of raping a girl named Mayella Ewell. During this time Scout and her family had many hardships due to the towns criticism while doing the right thing and helping an innocent man. In the novel, Harper Lees’ use of tone helped to develop the central idea, which is the importance of having a moral compass.
In “To kill A Mockingbird”, a man named Boo Radley hides in his house for years upon years because of an incident involving him stabbing his father with scissors in the leg. This leads him to being locked away in his home. All the kids and adults in the neighborhood knows about this and spread the word to the people who don’t know. This leads to a massive rumor saying that Boo Radley is dangerous and nobody should go near their house. Towards the beginning of the book though a tree with a big hole is found in front of the radley’s house on the sidewalk.
Earlier on in the book, Atticus tells Scout and Jem that “it's a sin to kill a mockingbird,” which becomes a key lesson in the later chapters in many instances, and helps us to understand Harper Lee’s theme of innocents being strongly impacted by coming into contact with evil (119). The first example of this that appears in chapter 25 is when Scout and Jem are on the back porch, and Scout finds a roly-poly bug, which she decides to smash. Jem stops her, citing, “‘Because they don’t bother you,’” when she asks why (320). Another instance where innocent people are profoundly changed by acts of evil is when Atticus and Calpurnia tell Helen Robinson (Tom’s wife) that her husband has been killed. She collapses on the ground in grief and has to be
Courage can be categorized into an abundance of meaning according to each person. It could entail fending off a bully during lunch or stepping foot on the diamond during a baseball game. In the novel, “To Kill A Mockingbird”, by Harper Lee, courage was what grounded the characters. The characters were able to fight battles using words, face their fears, and decide their own fate. One of the greatest indications of courage in the novel, was when Mr. Atticus remained calm and went on with the trial even when threats of being killed were arising everyday.
The Effect of Perspective and Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, brings into great perspective how important genuine understanding can be in day-to-day life. Her story follows siblings living in southern Alabama, positioned in the heart of a town poisoned by prejudice. This novel follows a young girl facing morals in her town, through her eyes, as well as her father Atticus, a lawyer, willing to stand up for what is right against rigid, set-in-stone views shared by the town. Simply put, a sympathetic perspective is all it takes to sway mindsets. At the beginning of the book, through the eyes of Scout, she complains to her father, Atticus, about her misfortunes at school that particular day.
To Kill A Mockingbird Literary Analysis Throughout To Kill A MockingBird, by Harper Lee there are many acts of courage. This is shown in Atticus Finch, Jem Finch, and Boo Radley. Atticus shows the most courage in the book but all three of these characters show true courage in some way, shape, or form. Boo Radley showed a lot of courage, but he was not in the storyline as much as Atticus. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, courage is defined as standing up for people and doing what’s right.
Remember that special bird that always seems to be belting its cheerful tunes? Has anyone ever told you to appreciate the bird’s special knack for singing? Or rather, to do no harm to the frail animal since, after all, “It's a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee, pg.119). Harper Lee took this aphorism and turned it on its head: she gave this phrase a new meaning by creating the critically acclaimed novel, To Kill A Mockingbird starring the brother sister duo, Scout and Jem, both of whom constantly finding themselves in the most unlikely but simultaneously relatable predicaments. The audience follows the pair through their highs and lows in a key coming of age story.
The fictional novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about the Finch family that lives in Maycomb, Alabama during the year 1933. The children, Jean Louise or Scout and Jem Finch have many adventures throughout the book with family, friends, and other people of Maycomb. As the book states, it is a “Timeless Classic of Growing Up and (about) the Human Dignity That Unites Us All.” Although the story is not based on true events, it reveals dimensions of history through Tom Robinson, Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose, and Boo Arthur Radley’s stories. First of all, the story reveals dimensions of history through Tom Robinson.
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird may seem to be a pleasant tale about a young southern girl, but if one takes a deeper look into the story then many deeper-level themes and concepts will begin to emerge. The story is one of growing up, learning to understand others, and most of all the tragedy and incomprehension of the depths of racism in a small southern town. This racism drove the inhabitants of the town devoid of reasoning, to the point of killing a black man on spurious charges. The name of the man who the town slaughtered was Tom Robinson. The author of To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, characterizes Tom Robinson as a black man who symbolizes the effects of southern racism in America while using a historical perspective.
Option 2 Literary Analysis To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel set during the 1930s in a small town in Southern Alabama called Maycomb. The story is told through the narrator, Scout, a young girl who lives with her father, a lawyer, and her older brother Jem. As a child, Scout is portrayed as a stubborn and obnoxious little girl who loves to read, play with her brother Jem, and fantasize about her mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. However, her life gets turned upside down when Scout’s father agrees to do something that is deemed unacceptable in the south; he agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who is accused of raping a white girl. Instantly, Atticus and his family go from being respected and beloved by their town, to being
Essay 1 Date Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird “To kill a Mockingbird” is a novel in which Harper Lee, the author, presents forth various themes among them the unheard theme of social molarity. Harper dramatically uses a distinctive language through Scout, who is the narrator of the story to bring out the difficulties faced by children living in the southern Alabama town of Maycomb. Harper has dramatically displayed use of bildungsroman throughout the story; this helped to give the story a unique touch of a child’s view to bring out a different type of humor and wit. It has also used to develop and thrive the theme of morality in the society.
Lucas Meinberg McElroy 1st Gifted/Advanced ELA March 20th, 2018 Literary Analysis-To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird. A book that details the struggle that was racial discrimination in the 1900’s of Maycomb, Alabama. As the plot unfolds, we see a deeper meaning of what Harper Lee’s true purpose was on writing this book. One also sees certain literary devices being used to tell the story in a more effective way, and the reader can relate these devices to the overall theme of the book.
An exploration of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein through the gendered lens of the author’s role as a mother begets an intriguing exploration of the role of the birth and death of offspring in the novel. At its heart, Frankenstein is a family saga; an account of the disjointed relationship between a father and child that proves wicked due to abandonment and neglect, born out of Frankenstein’s fear of the monster’s deathly nature. As argued by Moer, Mary Shelley’s experiences constantly combining birth and death inform Frankenstein as a reflection on post-partum trauma and has further implications as to the destructive nature of Frankenstein’s subsequent fear of childbirth. In “Female Gothic: the Monster’s Mother,” Ellen Moers argues that Frankenstein,
“Courage doesn 't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I’ll try again tomorrow’” - Mary Anne Radmacher. Through this quote one can see the advantages of real courage. One can really understand the true meaning of courage by reading the books To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. The book by Harper Lee is written by a 9 year old’s perspective named Scout.
