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“Great Expectations” and “To Kill A Mocking bird”
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Despite their differences in location and time, both “Great Expectations” and “To Kill A Mockingbird” share connections in their storylines. These novels are written from the viewpoint of an adult reflecting on their childhood, making them both bildungsroman in style. The novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” addresses different types of prejudice that existed in Maycomb…
Tom Robinson to Kill a Mockingbird. Was Justice Served?
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Yet another incident against a Negro has taken place in Maycomb County of Alabeama. The young man, Tom Robinson, was accused of physically and sexually assaulting a young woman, Miss Mayella Ewell. Atticus Finch was Mr Robinson’s lawyer, and during the trial he pointed out a few things that were evident and proved Mr Robinson’s…
Fairness and Equality in “To Kill a Mockingbird”
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In Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, she shows socio-economic prejudice that happened in Maycomb through the Cunninghams, the Ewell’s, and Tom Robinson’s community. This ranges from the courtroom to everyday life and the people of Maycomb seem to be at ease with this. This ideal changes as Scout and Jem learn more about their…
Role Models in “To Kill a Mockingbird”
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Young people always need someone to look up to, whether it is to become something great like their idol or have an evil turn on it. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the protagonist Jean Louise, also called Scout, sees the full truth of the people in her community. Growing up around the…
Wrong or Right, Black or White: An Analysis of “To Kill a Mockingbird”
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“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”?
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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
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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
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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…
First Glance at a Mockingbird
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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…
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Hacker
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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…
| 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. |
