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Writing assignment to kill a mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
For example there are mitochondria (power stations), ribosome (protein packaging factories) and lissome (waste disposal stations) The largest structure in the ell in the nucleus; it contains the nucleolus together with chromatin which condenses into chromosomes when the cell undergoes division. It usually lies towards the middle of the cell and is the most important…
Moral Relativity and Post Modernism in To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
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
To Kill A Mockingbird
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,…
To Kill A Mockingbird Quote
To Kill A Mockingbird
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
To Kill A Mockingbird
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…
Essay: To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
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…
The Socialization of Scout – to Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
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
To Kill A Mockingbird
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…
Ethical Issues in To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
The fiction novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee explores many issues and concerns such as maturation and morals and ethics . Lee uses the character such as Jem, Scout and Atticus Finch to help convey these notions and concerns. Jem and Scout take us through their journey of maturation. While then we learn…
Theme of Judging in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird
During the great depression in the south, Jem and Scout encounter various individuals whom they form their own perceptions of, some of which are ultimately proven false. Included in their misjudgments are Boo Radley, Mrs. Dubose, and Atticus. Initially, Scout is frightened of Boo Radley, and Jem and Dill’s curiosity about him prompts them to…
| 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. |
