I can tell To Kill A Mockingbird takes place during the 1930’s because of the allusions made in it. In the book, they also use words that we do not normally use in our average daily vocabulary; Some examples would be on page 36 when they use words such as “fer”, “reckon”, and “ain’t”. Back in the twentieth century, they used multiple words that we do not use as much nowadays. Furthermore, I can tell the book takes place during the 1930’s is because of an allusion made on page 46 when Jem refers to Indian-heads. Indian-heads were pennies before the Lincoln penny came about.
What would happen if you were to shove a colored man to the ground? What if you shoved a colored man eighty years ago? Would you share the same consequences? These are all questions that should have obvious answers, but because of the way our society works, they’re not. Without brave souls fighting for equality, there would be no change.
It is ironic for this character to say such a thing since home is a place of safety and the antebellum South was such a hard place for a black woman to be in. Butler presents some type of situational irony within this scene since, this place is the greatest danger for the character, by law. This character is a Black woman and in the antebellum South, to be a woman and black, is a dangerous combination.
In Chapter 4 of To Kill a Mockingbird Jem and Scout find several things in the knot-hole of the old oak tree on the Radley house. The children are very curious about who left these things there. Later in the book they realize that it is Boo Radley is leaving the gifts. He is trying to show them his affection for them. Throughout the novel Jem and scout find 2 sticks of gum, a pack of gum, 2 old Indian head coins, gray twine, soap figures carved to like Jem and Scout, old spelling bee medals and an old watch on a chain and an aluminum knife.
In the 1930s, and still now, many people have wondered whether we are all good or evil. Everyone in this world has different opinions of everyone, based on how they act and look. Most people believe that everyone has a little bit of both in their blood due to how they present themselves. People have written and said things describing how we view others and how that affects other people's view on that person. Harper Lee is someone who believes that everyone should think before judging one another.
What is a metaphor? A metaphor is a thing regarded as symbolic or representative to something else. For example: “Stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning”(pg.6)Explanation This metaphor could mean a lot of different things and have many different meanings, one of the things it could stand for is maybe the weather melted the starch on the collars and they were literally wilted like they use it in the book.
Hypocrisy runs deep in many citizens of Maycomb. Harper Lee has included many examples of hypocrisy in the novel. This is seen in characters throughout the story. Characters like Aunt Alexandra, Mrs. Gates, Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell and Mrs. Merriweather all exhibit hypocrisy. All these characters prove their hypocrisy throughout the story.
In today’s world, Prejudice is still at large and people don’t even notice it. Prejudice falls under many categories of racism, sexism, and ageism. Harper Lee uses the idea of prejudice when writing To kill a Mockingbird to bring awareness to it. In To kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee presents the idea that Prejudice and how judging and treating people unfairly because of their skin color or social status can hurt them and cause problems in society. For example, the townspeople in Maycomb unjustly accused Tom Robinson of a crime simply because he was black, despite evidence to the contrary, which ultimately led to his tragic fate, demonstrating the harmful consequences of prejudice.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” In Martin Luther King Jr. quote he explains that ignorance and stupidity and dangerous. Another identical event expressed in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird which is set in Maycomb County,Alabama during the Great Depression. The story is narrated by Scout Finch who learns about the ignorance at her hometown when a black man is accused of rape. In the novel Harper Lee uses external conflict to demonstrate that racism is a result of ignorance.
Wisdom in To Kill a Mockingbird During the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee presents the idea that wisdom is demonstrated by having a better understanding even though society doesn’t believe it. For example, in the passage Atticus says “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view” (Lee, 39). Atticus listens to Scout’s concerns and eases her fears by suggesting a compromise about reading and going to school. This passage shows and demonstrates on how Atticus knows how to at least be reasonable and understand what others are going through.
To Kill a Mocking Bird Aristotle holds that anger is “a desire accompanied by pain for an imagined retribution on account of an imagined slighting inflicted by people who have no legitimate reason to slight oneself or one’s own.” (1-3). “Anger is a complex emotion since it embraces pain and pleasure; the pain is produced from injury while the desire of taking revenge is somehow results from the injury. Anger is a strong feeling of being upset or annoyed because of something wrong” (7) . It is also energy it can be positive or negative; if it is used positively, it creates a change in the world but if it is used negatively it can be devastating, the acknowledge that anger has both aspects the negative and the positive one.
out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes. "(226) People despise other people because the society they were surrounded by was to criticize the people based on their appearance and what the rest of the people’s opinions were. The children discover more about the hypocrisies and double standards during the trial. Atticus Finch, Jem and Scout’s father, is a layer that was ask to defend an African-american man, Tom Robinson, that was accused of rape by a white woman.
Hypocrisy is something that no human on this planet has been, is, or ever will be, completely immune to. While hypocrisy may not be a crime in and of itself, it can permit and justify crimes in the mind of the wrongdoer. The characters in To Kill a Mockingbird are no exception. Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee develops the motif that people are ignorant to their own faults or mistakes through the characters Bob Ewell, Grace Merriweather, and Aunt Alexandra. Bob Ewell is shown to be ignorant of his mistakes through the repetitive mistakes and actions he makes in the book.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses characterization, symbolism, and irony to express the cloud in judgment prejudice causes when examining the morals of others. Scout is able to understand more about the town folk in Maycomb County through studying her teacher’s ironic and corrupted views of life around her. Lee uses Miss Gates, Scout’s teacher, to allow Scout a chance to understand the complexity of the adult world. While teaching the class about the Holocaust, Gates expresses the injustice being done to the Jews. She teaches the children that the town does not “believe in persecuting anybody” (Lee 329) because of the U.S. democratic government.
In "To Kill a Mockingbird," the author uses different points of view to create dramatic tension in the courtroom. At the beginning of the courtroom scene, Scout and her brother Jem are observing the case from the balcony of the courtroom. During the courtroom scene where Tom Robinson was found guilty by the jury, the author used the point of view from the balcony where Scout was to explain how Scout observed how the jury was not able to look Tom in the eyes. This uses a first-person point of view as seen and described by Scout.
