Rhetorical Devices In To Kill A Mockingbird

o Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is told in the perspective of a young girls named Scout who grew up under the intricate circumstances of the mid twentieth century in Maycomb County, Alabama. Throughout the novel, Scout and Jem discover that their father is going to represent a black man named Tom Robinson, who is accused of raping and beating a white woman. Suddenly, Scout and Jem have to tolerate a barrage of racial slurs and insults because of Atticus' role in the trial. Throughout the novel Lee uses various types of rhetorical devices, but the clear ones are symbolisms which illustrate Tom Robinson and his role in the racial prejudice in the era. An example would be when Atticus tells Scout it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird, not understanding why, she asks Miss. Maudie who tells her “Mockingbirds don't do one

I learned that Wright forces his audiences in this case me, to enter the mind of an oppressed African American and to understand the effects of the demoralizing social conditions under which they was raised, which also reflects his own life. Wright swore to himself saying “If I wrote another book, no one would weep over it; that it could be so hard and deep that they would have to face it without the consolation of tears” (Hart 72). He wanted people to read his book and get angry, realizing that society we know as it is, is indeed true. Barbara Foley states that Native son is “grotesque rather than tragic and Bigger’s fate, emotionally gripping as it may be, is ultimately subordinated to Wright’s bitter social commentary”( Bloom, Richard Wright). Wright wondered what people would say about Bigger Thomas. Would they say that he is exactly like all black people “ Sullen, angry, ignorant, emotionally unstable, and depressed?” (Hart 74). Most of Wright’s writing is based off of his