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Wrong or Right, Black or White: An Analysis of “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird Themes
“Don’t judge a book by it’s cover” is a popular saying that means one should not prejudice the worth of someone or something by its outer appearance. The prevalence of this prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird, is shown through the unfair treatment of African-Americans based on racial, societal, and gender stereotypes. By juxtapositioning good…
What is the Importance in the Mob Episode in “To Kill A Mocking Bird”?
To Kill A Mockingbird
Atticus has been facing threats and warnings due to his defense of Tom Robinson in this particular section of the novel. It is in this scene that a heated argument arises, revealing a portion of the town’s genuine sentiments and biases. In chapter 15, Jem and Scout witness Atticus sitting outside Macomb jail, where Tom…
Major Themes in to Kill a Mocking Bird
To Kill A Mockingbird
Growing up is a necessity in life. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird there are many major themes. One of them is “growing up”. This theme is brought out by Jem and Scout. Both of these characters grow in many different ways. Scout shows she’s growing up when she loses her innocence, and events…
To Kill a Mocking Bird Theme
To Kill A Mockingbird
Love, Compassion, Empathy. Although these words have similar, yet different meanings, these 3 words can, if used appropriately, fall into one distinct category: Family. In Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird, she demonstrates all the meanings of family in three different ways: family love and connection, empathy and compassion and ethical behavior. These are the…
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Hacker
To Kill A Mockingbird
I would use passive reconnaissance as this pertains to information gathering. ). What application and tools can be use to perform this initial reconnaissance and probing step? Google is a major tool in most hackers initial first step. But you can use Map MAP, Scanned and Perpetrate. 4). How can social engineering be used to…
First Glance at a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird Themes
Think about the last time you judged someone before getting to know them; perhaps a peer at school. These judgments could be about the simplest things, their appearance, behavior, rumors, etc., normally these judgments are proven wrong with the chance of getting to know someone. This “quick-to-judge” behavior is known as prejudice, prejudice never tends…
To kill a mocking birdprejudice
To Kill A Mockingbird
Prejudice has caused the pain and suffering of others for manySome examples of this include the Holocaust and slavery in the UnitedStates. In to Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee racism was the cause ofmuch agony to the blacks of a segregated South. Along with blacks, othergroups of people are judged unfairly just because of…
Injustice ‘To Kill A Mocking Bird’ by Harper Lee
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird Injustice is a problem that everyone faces. Nobody likes to suffer from injustice; yet, it is done to other people constantly. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, there are three characters that suffer great injustice. Their names are Atticus, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. Atticus, a…
Scout’s Quest to Maturity: To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Maturity
To Kill A Mockingbird
The pursuance of seeking an idea, place, or person is an individual that possesses aspiration in their daily lives. You may find some challenges on the way but taking every mistake as a learning experience helps you excel and improve form it. In humans, especially children, having aspiration in something results in open opportunities to…
What Does Being Mature Mean
Harper Lee
Maturity
To Kill A Mockingbird
To be mature not only means physically, but also mentally; to stop childishness and “become an adult”. Harper Lee, the author of the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, has represented mental maturity through two young siblings, Jem and Scout, who live in Maycomb, Alabama in the early 1930s. In the beginning, Jem and Scout are…
| author | Harper Lee |
|---|---|
| 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. |
