Preston Geerinck Per. 1 4/25/17 Mrs. Granahan-Smith Speech Analysis Atticus Finch of the novel To Kill a Mockingbird tackled the task of defending the case of Tom Robinson who was accused of raping Mayella Ewell.
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.
“Cult” a system of religious veneration and devotion directed toward a particular figure or object. Cult leaders and members are driven to do ludicrous things, this is what Charles Manson did. The Charles Manson Trial was a case where Charles Manson, leader of the Manson Family murdered 7 people based on the book ‘helter Skelter’, surprisingly these actions weren't what brought him into court but it was for the belief that they had vandalized a portion of the Death Valley National Park. Mr. Kunstler the defendant for Manson tries to persuade not only the jury put the public that Charles Manson was innocent. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” she builds the story in the early 1930s in Alabama, when Atticus is assigned to defend a black
Rhetoric plays an enormous role in argument, specifically Aristotle's ethos, logos, and pathos. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, it revolves around the trial of Tom Robinson. He is a black man living in Maycomb, Alabama and has been charged with the rape of Mayella Ewell. In this trial his lawyer, Atticus Finch, defends him and delivers closing arguments in an effort to prove his innocence. In Atticus’s closing remarks, the strongest rhetoric provided was logos and pathos.
Rhetorical Precis Writing Atticus Finch, a fictional character within Harper Lee’s 1930s set novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, (1960) argues that Tom Robinson is innocent, and rather the defenseless victim of a society ruled by prejudice. Consequently, through Atticus, Harper Lee supports this argument by applying the use of rhetorical appeals and literary devices. For instance, Lee establishes ethos through the utilization of an allusion to Thomas Jefferson, showing Atticus’s credibility and education: “‘Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal” (Lee 233).
In the story “To Kill a MockingBird” by Harper Lee. An enormous amount of Literary devices were used to cleverly convey the underlying meaning of what is being said. I have chosen to analyze the allusion of Rockefeller. In the heated wrap up of the trial between the Ewells and Tom Robinson Trial, Atticus used the allusion to Rockefeller when saying “-there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein..."(210).
This metaphor compares Scout’s school progress to a treadmill. The author shows how Scout hates school to make us believe that she has shown no progress in the Maycomb County school system. The comparison to a treadmill helps show that Scout’s learning experience is going nowhere. This is because a treadmill goes nowhere, as well. The quote means that Scout is slowly going through the school years.
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.
In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee it talks about racism towards colored folks. What some people don’t seem to notice is that in the book, there is also racism towards white folks, such as some of the colored people thinking that whites think they can just do what they want to do because they seem to be more free. In this passage, the literary elements of mood, tone, diction, and conflict help develop the theme that people aren’t as much criticized, or bashed on by who they are, but by what they look like referring to their skin color. The mood of Calpurnia and Zeebo defending both Scout and Jem against Lula makes Scout realize another side to them, as to caring for them more then she had thought they did, enough to stand
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.
The poet, Lascelles Abercrombie once said, “There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to see in particular human experience some significant symbolism of man 's general destiny.”. He talked about how powerful of a tool symbolism is and how it is the only thing that can truly define a highly complex ‘destiny’ or series of events. Symbolism is something that is found throughout Harper Lee’s book, To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee shows the reader that racism is a product of society,she portrays the matter through her symbolism of the mad dog, the birds and the bugs.
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
Urban growth and decline is a geographical processes that are constantly shaping Australian cities and is a geographical issue in Australia. Australia is a highly urbanised country as 89.01% of the population lives in the urban areas. People live in these areas due to lifestyle factors e.g specialist services, housing and jobs. Urban growth is the result of increasing population due to factors such as convenience, services, educational opportunities. and jobs e;g Sydney Business park in Marsden Park offering growth potential in one of sydney’s largest employment precincts.
When Scout remarks that Jem is color blind and when Lula judges them based on their color is ironic because you would expect that Jem and Scout would be the ones to judge others on color and not the other way around. Another example of irony would be from earlier in Chapter 12 when Jem and Scout see Atticus in a cartoon on the newspaper. The newspaper tried to insult Atticus, but instead it was taken as a compliment to him. “‘That’s a compliment,’ explained Jem. ‘He spends his time doin’ things that wouldn’t get done if nobody did ‘em’”
