HOW DOES HARPER LEE USE CHARACTERS IN TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, TO EXPLAIN SOME OF THE ISSUES IN ALABAMA IN THE 1930’S? Harper Lee use many characters to explain some of the issues in Alabama in the 1930’s. The character of Tom Robinson is used to teach the reader about racism and corruption within the judicial system. Aunt Alexandra and Scout represent how important people thought it was to become a lady and the sexism in that era. Aunt Alexandra is also used to show the significance of social classes
To Kill a Mockingbird: Movie vs. Novel Preferably, a novel and its film version can complement each other. However, novels can accomplish things that films cannot, and films can accomplish things that novels cannot. Also, film has limitations that a novel doesn’t have. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee and was made into a film in 1962, which also received many awards. Although the film projects the main events of the story, it is different from the novel because some characters are not
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, racism plays a key role in how events in these people’s lives turn out: Tom Robinson, almost every other African American in Maycomb, and Helen Robinson. Racism in To Kill a Mockingbird plays a key role and affects the events in the novel by deciding how people live the way they live and how most events in the novel turn out. Racism affects the life of Tom Robinson through his trial. He is only accused of rape because he is black and supposedly “rapes a white
English Essay － To Kill A Mockingbird “I’m simply defending a Negro-his name is Tom Robinson” (p,83) In the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”, Harper Lee touches on many social questions. The most crucial questions among these is the problem of racism and bigotry in Maycomb, Alabama, a southern states of America in the mid 1930s. Many of this were shown throughout the book with the charge brought by Bob Ewell against Tom Robinson, how Atticus and his children were treated simply because of his defence
Throughout Harper Lee's novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, there is a prominent theme of prejudice that challenges dominant ideologies of society. Harper-Lee has strategically represented this overarching theme using interplay between themes, characters, symbols and events. Readers are positioned to experience discrimination throughout the events in a small, secluded town, Maycomb. The main theme portrayed throughout the novel is racial prejudice, represented by key events, symbols and characters featured
Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, there are many examples of different kinds of prejudice. The first most obvious example of prejudice is racism. Aunt Alexandra’s grandson Francis definitely has some things to say about the matter. While him and Scout argue, he says, “I guess it ain’t your fault if Uncle Atticus is a nigger-lover besides, but I’m here to tell you it certainly does mortify the rest of the family” (Lee, 1960, p.110). There is no reason Atticus’ thoughts should affect anyone
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
the movie of “To Kill a Mockingbirds”. These are some main ideas missing from the movie. The movie starts different from the book. Not to many details about the description of Scout and Jem. I would have enjoyed the movie best if it had started like the book. In the movie it never showed some characters that the novel talked about like Uncle Jack, Mr. Link Deas, and Mr.Dolphus Raymond. It hardly shows Aunt Alexandra and in
but of which are the basis of gender roles. At first, Scout does not understand why she forces her to wear a dress, and she stays composed despite Aunt Alexandra’s ridiculous remarks due to of her growing maturity. Also, Aunt Alexandra sympathizes with Tom Robinson’s death later in the book, which shows Scout that she is not an out-and-out racist and that she cares about black people (269-71). It is not known whether Scout is beginning to see the true Aunt Alexandra, which would imply that Scout’s
Gloribel Momin Prof. Larry Rubin ENGL 2000-L02 October 6, 2014 Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird demonstrates a story in which various characters develop and change overtime. A young girl named Jean Louise Finch, also referred to as Scout, narrates the story. She is a developing character herself, whom over a two-year period of time, learns to understand the world she lives in as she grows up in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. The novel presents Scout in two different stages of her life: As