To Kill a Mockingbird

Mayella testifies next, a reasonably clean nineteen-year- old girl who is obviously terrified. She says that she called Tom Robinson inside the fence that evening and offered him a nickel to break up a dresser for her, and that once he got inside the house he grabbed her and took advantage of her. In Atticus’…

“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.” (Lee 119) Mockingbirds show courage, respect and empathy just people today, this…

The childrens innocence allows them to see through the artificial barrier of colour and to accept and individual for what they are. Harper Lee uses Atticus and his relationship with his children to integrate the themes of growing up and the law. Atticus raises his children according to his principles. His teachings to his children…

Atticus is flimsy and feeble… That is what Scout Finch, the narrator of To Kill A Mockingbird thought about her father, she was wrong. Atticus is kind, wise, and seeks the truth. I will prove all these to you in the following paragraphs. Atticus is smart. He is wise to teach his children good manners,…

A)We all know that good literature expresses a theme. This is definitely the case in To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee plays with various universal themes that her readers can relate to. I noticed that Lee made a point to show that ignorance and naiveness are two totally different things. This is most obvious when…

What is a classic? One definition given by the dictionary is: having lasting significance or worth; enduring. When examined closely we can discover what makes the novel unique and memorable. There are many important messages in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, which make it memorable to the reader. The main message in this novel…

To Kill a Mockingbird 5 chunk essay English 10 9.25.03 The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a book about two children, Jem and Scout, growing up in the south during the great depression. During the course of the story, they meet many people. Jem and Scout develop perceptions about the people…

To Kill A Mockingbird By: Harper Lee SUMMARY To Kill a Mockingbird opens with Dill coming to visit his Aunt for the summer. Dill becomes a good friend with the Finches, Jean-Louise, who is nicknamed Scout and her brother, Jeremy Finch, who is nicknamed Jem. They live with their father, Atticus, who is a lawyer…

  Some of the experiences may cause them to smile, or even laugh, while some of them may bring back bitter memories. It is always hard to express the childhood incidents or experience in a clear and interesting way, since they were past memories that happened long time ago. Moreover, when a person has grown…

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel, written by Harper Lee and it manages the subjects of race, class and gender roles. The novel is set in the small, rural town of Maycomb, Alabama, in 1930s which was the season of extreme separation. The narrator in the novel is called Scout Finch, and the story…