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The Non-Dichotomy of Good and Evil (in Context of Lee’s to Kill a Mockingbird)
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Most students (and readers in general), tend to associate the themes of racial injustice and existential social inequality with the renowned novel To Kill a Mockingbird, but I find that a more important message that is conveyed in Mockingbird is that there is no defining rubicon between the areas of good and evil in the…
Moral Relativity and Post Modernism in To Kill a Mockingbird
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Since the 1960s, society has been shifting from the traditional culture based around the organized. It was a society that had a moral base. Since the 1960s, the western world, and more specifically the United States, have shifted away from this moral base and into a post-modernist moral relativity. Rules are suggestions instead of law,…
The Caged Bird Controversy
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Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings portrays her struggles in the Southern United States. Published in 1969, it has been highly regarded since 1970 and spent three years as a best-seller on the New York Times Best Seller List (Caged Bird Essay). Despite its popularity, the book has faced censorship and challenges,…
Essay: To Kill a Mockingbird
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In this essay I will be exploring Scout’s character, and how her opinions and herself have changed throughout chapter 10. At the beginning of chapter 10, Scout is disillusioned about her father. She believes that Atticus is very boring and old, unlike other children’s fathers. ‘Atticus was feeble, he was nearly fifty’. Scout obviously is…
To Kill A Mockingbird Quote
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They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything. A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of…
Analysis of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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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 who had been given a case to…
The Socialization of Scout – to Kill a Mockingbird
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The narrator of To Kill A Mockingbird is Jean Louise “Scout” Finch. Scout is a unique six-year-old girl, standing out in both her personality traits and social position. Before even starting school, she possesses the ability to read. She exhibits an unusually thoughtful nature and defies traditional gender roles by behaving like a tomboy in…
To Kill a Mockingbird-Atticus’ Influences
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Bruce Cockburn, a well known Canadian jazz and folk artist, sang in “Lovers in a Dangerous Time” that one should “Keep kicking at the darkness ‘till it bleeds daylight”. This statement vividly outlines the determination needed to preserver through a tough situation and come out on the upside. When faced with a challenge that seems…
To Kill A MockingBird – Analysis of Literature
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Boo Raddled is Attic’s neighbor who experiences prejudice from other towns people. Mr.. Cunningham is a poor town’s man who experiences prejudice from Attic’s daughter scout until Tactics intervenes. In each of these the author has against Tactics acting against prejudice. Body 1 In the book there is a trial in which Tactics defends Tom…
Kill a Mockingbird Tactics
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Finch as a teacher and father from chapters 9-1 1 of To Kill a Mockingbird. In Chapter 2, Miss Caroline Fisher tells Scout, “Your father does not know how to teach Through much of these three chapters, however, he shows himself to be an excellent father who takes his responsibility to raise his children very…
| author | Harper Lee |
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| genre | Southern Gothic; Bildungsroman |
| originally published | July 11, 1960 |
| description | To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by the American author Harper Lee. It was published in 1960 and was instantly successful. In the United States, it is widely read in high schools and middle schools. To Kill a Mockingbird has become a classic of modern American literature, winning the Pulitzer Prize. |
| setting | To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression ( 1929–39). The story centres on Jean Louise (“Scout”) Finch, an unusually intelligent girl who ages from six to nine years old during the novel. |
| characters | Atticus Finch, Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch, Boo Radley, Jem Finch, Robert Ewell |
| quotations | “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”,“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” |
| information | Pages: 281 Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Quill Award for Audio book Literary element: In To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee selects such stylistic devices as symbolism, foreshadowing and irony to present her theme of inequality and tell the story of a brave man who fights for those that do not have a voice during the Great Depression. |
