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
The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee takes places in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the midst of the Great Depression. The story follows a young girl named Scout, her lawyer father, Atticus, and older brother, Jem as they embark on the ongoing journey of growing up. It begins in the summer when Jem and Scout meet Dill Harris, a young boy from Mississippi visiting his aunt for the summer. The three then go on a mission to get the infamous Boo Radley to come out of his home
Should books be banned or be allowed for everyone to read? In the Google Scholar article “The Case Against To Kill A Mockingbird”, the book To Kill A Mockingbird is banned for it is offensive language. Not only that but the book Animal Farm by George Orwell is banned, for it is inappropriate topics such as politics. However, in the infographic “12 Infographics about Banned and Challenged Books” by Piotr Kowalczyk says that everyone has the freedom to read what they want. Also in the news article
374). This quote means people have to take the time to see where someone is coming from in order to understand them and make their judgments from there. Between 1877 to 1950, there were laws that discriminate dark skinned people. These were the Jim Crow Laws that restricted black people and segregated them from the rest of society. By putting in racism, it gives the story a more realistic atmosphere and helps display Harper Lee’s message. An examination of racism in To Kill A Mockingbird reveals people
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
a lot to take in but gives so much in return. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, two characters Jem and Scout are introduced and learn many valuable lessons that do not necessarily come from school education. Throughout the book, the idea of valuable lessons are more found in real life rather than school education is brought up numerous times. The school life of Jem and Scout is not mentioned in the book that much but from the scenes they are mentioned it seems to the reader that the
Conjectures and bigotry are comprised from human judgment. Being able to differentiate between good and evil for humans is nearly impossible. Not everything is black and white, thus leading to a difficulty in defining good and evil. Humans would define good and evil by the standards that seem acceptable to themselves and their opinions, and sometimes that is either for religion or moral standards. In the novel East of Eden by John Steinbeck, the author’s assertion that one can only be deemed good
in a dominantly white area where the majority of white people hate you, can be hard to live with. The two stories “ To Kill A Mockingbird and “True Diary”, have a harsh setting that characters have to face. Arthur Spirit, commonly known as “Junior”, and Tom Robinson face these problems. They do seem to go through different circumstances, yet both characters different treatments from their own race. Finally, they both undergo numerous types of safety every day. Citizens in both settings of the stories
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”
Literary Devices, 11 Mar. 2015, literarydevices.net/diction/.) Example- “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change.” (To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee) Function –Here, Atticus is speaking to Scout. In this choice of wording, it shows the close relationship Atticus has with Scout. He uses phrases such as “don’t let ‘em get your goat” casually in order to let Scout know that she