Literature Review Report: To Kill A Mockingbird As part of my personal novel study, I have decided to read Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird”. Furthermore, I believe that this novel is an excellent match for my interest in the Southern Gothic genre. I enjoy this category as it mostly explores the social order of the southern part of America. This can be demonstrated through the interactions between characters, which I believe often invoke the burden of judgements and inequality that the community
is the racial problem of the southern states of USA in the 1930s portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird? INTRO In the 1930s the Southern states of America suffered from a strong discrimination and racial hatred towards colored people. They had no rights, no respect and were not allowed to go places white people went. In other words they were segregated from the rest of the society. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that show the life of a southern state od Alabama during the “black racism”
To Kill A Mockingbird, a world famous novel wrote by an extraordinary author, Harper Lee. This novel takes place among the devastating era of the 1930s. The small town of Maycomb is faced with a problem that puts the town at an unease state. One man named Atticus Finch is put on the strenuous court case where he is looked down upon by his peers. Despite the town's talking, Atticus still puts an immense amount of work in his case, as he would for others. A character in the town that talks about Atticus
In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, there are many times that people and society experience many challenges and conflicts.. Harper Lee’s novel is all about people overcoming fears and stepping over the boundaries, what is part of the cause to all of these conflicts. To overcome these challenges and issues in the world or with people, you have to work together to accomplish and achieve that goal together. This book takes place in the southern town, Maycomb alabama. This town is small, where “Everybody
Ms. Fields Thursday, September 19, 2014 To Kill A Mockingbird by: Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a fictional book set in the small segregated town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the 1930’s. Narrated by young girl named Scout Finch who is growing up with her older brother Jem and friend Dill. Scout explores with little understanding the concept of racism through the town gossip
To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a book about the racial tensions and segregation that arose in the 1930’s. The general storyline is about the main characters, Scout and Jem. At the start of the story, Jem and Scout were always discriminating against other characters, especially Boo Radley. The town was split in half due to racial segregation and Atticus Finch, their father, was a lawyer who doesn’t care who he’s representing because he’s a man of integrity and decency. Scout and Jem eventually
to advanced classes as white students do. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, racial differences are portrayed in each and every chapter, set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama. The main point of the book is racial injustice of an innocent black man, Tom Robinson. He is falsely accused of something he is not guilty
Through To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee teaches us the righteousness of empathy. Harper Lee's technique of writing with Christian beliefs weaved through emphasizes the story's moral. It is through Scout, the young dynamic and protagonist, that Lee opens the reader's eyes to a realistic world of prejudice and inequality during the 1930s. While narrating in first person, Lee further details her novel with the setting and use of style and diction. Though introducing many characters throughout the
As Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.” This quote is one of the many applicable to the American classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee introduces the reader to the Finch family consisting of Atticus, Jem, and Scout. The book is told from Scout’s point of view, which adds an interesting component considering she is six when the story starts. She is very intelligent for her
Marissa Staring Carpenter English 11H 14 March 2017 Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee describes the fictional town of Maycomb County, Alabama through the eyes of a young child. Lee describes numerous accounts of prejudice throughout the entire piece, which is set in the 1930's when this topic was prevalent. Prejudice can be defined in the novel as "the simple hell people give other people without even thinking". Although the majority of discrimination