In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee talks about discrimination based on gender role, age, and skin color. The characters in this book all have different personalities that influences others. Maycomb, Alabama in 1930’s is where everything happened with slavery and struggling with being poor. The characters Scout, Jem, and Dill had a strong bond and had lots of courage. Shows that justice means other things to other people.
The central idea of To Kill A Mockingbird is Bravery. A quote used in the story that Harper Lee uses to show this central idea is “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view” (30/34). This quote shows how some people can be brave. Many of the characters in the story were brave but the three i'm going to focus on are Atticus, Jem, and Arthur also known as “Boo”. Atticus, the father of Jem and Scout was very brave throughout the story.
Scout, in the beginning, dramatizes her life occurrences while being naive towards realistic issues such as racism. From the near beginning, page 16, “Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained – if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off.” As shown in the excerpt, scout believed in childish tall-tales and rumors at the start of the story. She did not notice, or care, how dramatized these rumors were. Another example from pages 20 and 21, “Jem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him, I was not to approach him with requests to reenact a chapter of Tarzan and the Ant Men, to embarrass him with references to his private life, or tag along behind him at noon.”
Scout could be considered a metaphorical “mockingbird” in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee because of her innocence and her joyful attitude that stays amidst all of the imperfect encounters she has in the book. For example, when Scout is talking with Dill they are discussing the childhood mystery of where babies come from when Dill suggests you order them from a man who rows them across an island and Scout opposes, “That’s a lie. Aunty said God drops ‘em down the chimney. At least that’s what I think she said.” This shows how creative and naive Scout’s mind is because she either believed Aunt Alexandra’s story or, because she had a tendency to “mishear” what people say, she could’ve made it up all on her own.
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, a Southern gothic fiction novel, summer represents Scout’s freedom. Scout has just finished his first year of school and she is excited for it to be over: “Our first days of freedom, and we were tired. I wondered what the summer would bring” (Lee 37). This quote directly shows how summer was Scouts freedom.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the author Harper Lee uses protagonist to express the idea that having the courage to fight can make people hate you. The thesis means that Atticus is fighting for other that is something that others will not do at all. This also means that Atticus was fighting for someone who is a colored and people did not like what he was doing. Next is that Atticus was standing up for Tom Robinson from getting accused of what he didn’t do. He also let Calpurnia stay at his house because he needed her and Alexandra told him to fire Calpurnia.
Jazmin Trunkhill English II Miss Windish 13 March 2018 People Into Ghosts In the book How to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are many good quotes throughout the book that a person could relate to real life in, but I am doing the quote “There are other ways of making people into ghosts”. I believe that this quote relates to real life. (Lee 14).
As we are coming to an end of our , “To Kill a mockingbird” unit, I have realized that we have gained many sorts on knowledge from this book. In other words, the novel contains multiple different life lessons or themes that is shown throughout the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” Some examples of a theme include respect, racism, responsibility, helping each other, encouragement etc. Moreover, this novel talks about a girl name Scout that lives with her brother and dad Atticus, they live in Macomb county during the great depression. Then there is some trouble and Atticus is asked to take Tom Robinson's, case a colored person, because he was accused of rape.
To Kill A Mocking Bird Atticus Finch once said "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.” This quote from To Kill A Mockingbird emphasizes the importance of putting yourself in another persons point of view, and truly understanding things from a different perspective. To Kill A Mocking Bird, written by Harper Lee is a touching novel that expresses multiple themes throughout the novel. The story unfolds in a town in Maycomb, Alabama, during the 1930’s. The story is told from the point of view of Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout.
Lessons of To Kill a Mockingbird “Life is a matter of what you learn and how you learn it”. To me, this quote means that people would learn many different lessons from life experiences. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee taught me as well as the characters in the novel a lot about morals from their learned experiences. In To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many characters who learned some important lessons from their experiences of life. One example is the narrator,Scout.
Lola Leonard Mrs.Erdmann English 9 4/21 “To Kill A Mockingbird” Harper Lee uses the quote: “Storms make trees grow deeper roots” This applies to a person because in life people make mistakes, but the good thing is everyone has time and room to grow. Lee references this all throughout her novel, “To Kill A Mockingbird.” Jem and Scout, the kids in the story, grow and become more mature: Also, learning many life lessons along the way. Harper Lee uses a combination of imagery, tone, and, symbolism throughout her book: "To Kill A Mockingbird" to show the idea that being polite and respectful plays a big part in maturing
Humans are creatures of emotion, guided by their will and blessed with the capacity to have compassion. Their ability to understand others and share their pain, be flawed with vulnerability, and still choose to keep others close to them— these abilities, unique to us, are what have led the world to where it is today. Their fragility is what connects them, and yet it is a human’s greatest weakness. Harper Lee’s prestigious novel To Kill A Mockingbird, based in the 1930s, displays the shortcomings of society and how they have fed into their faults. Biased perceptions of others based on nothing had plagued their ability to see each other as humans and led to the persecuted Tom Robinson having the value of his life unfairly questioned.
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” No quote has rung in the ears of American citizens quite like this one from the literary classic, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This revolutionary story is about the happenings in a small town in Alabama and how Atticus Finch and his family fight for what’s right in a system that’s stacked against them.
The Simple Truth One of the greatest gifts my parents gave me was an uneventful childhood, and that is why I can remember that June 1968 was hot. In my neighborhood few of the families had air-conditioning or color TVs, let alone the money for such unnecessary and modern luxuries. Each day after a morning of outside play, following an exactly-at-noon lunch, my mom, my brother, and we four girls rested on the living room floor hoping to catch a breeze from the water cooler, surrendering to the heat of the day. Our bedding was hidden under the sofa because it was too hot to sleep upstairs even at night. Perched on her chair above us, Mama would lift her feet to the footstool and read her most recent Readers’ Digest Condensed Novel.
Formal Analysis: At Eternity’s Gate At Eternity’s Gate is an Oil Painting created by Van Gogh in a time of deprived health for the artist. This work was created only 2 months before his death. The man, sitting uneasily with his hands on his head clenched, wears only a blue overall. The condition of the work, as most art, has slightly faded, and is no longer densely colored, but mostly faded or worn out.
