In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mocking Bird, the author’s choices are used to draw us as readers into the story and clearly show the underlying message of prejudice. The three techniques discussed in this essay will be: symbolism, narrative voice and foreshadowing One method that Harper Lee uses to enhance the readers knowledge of the underling message is symbolism. Though the title To Kill a Mocking Bird has very little to do with the story, Harper Lee has made it so it has symbolic weight. Throughout
text ‘to kill a mockingbird’ written by Harper Lee. The focus of my essay is to analyse how symbolism was used in the novel. Before I start analysing the novel, there is symbolism show in the title. The mockingbird is the symbol of innocence (anything that is good and bad in the world) the mockingbird only sings to please others and so it is considered a sin to kill a mockingbird. This relates to real life, for example there are some hunters who kill mockingbirds for sport; some people kill innocence
Taylor Harris Mrs. Martyn Comp./Lit 9 Period 5 11 December 2015 TKMB Essay Draft Misfit Mockingbirds In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee tells the story of the Finch family, who lives in the small town of Maycomb. The children of the Finch family, Scout and Jem grow up throughout the book while going about many obstacles. Atticus, their father, is a lawyer who is defending a black man in court named, Tom Robinson, despite the odds against him. Besides
the industrial North from the economically depressed South, which is known as “The Great Migration”(Essay par.1). The recently migrated artists, writers, actors, and musicians sought economic opportunities
In Richard Rodriquez’ essay, “The Achievement of Desire”, experiences with education and how a desire to acquire knowledge has the possibility of straining family relationships are explored. Rodriquez describes himself as a “scholarship boy”; the type of student who is “Always successful” but “always unconfident”, he was “anxious and eager to learn”, in conjunction with being “an imitative and unoriginal pupil” (339). In essence, Rodriquez is saying that while he was curious and excited about learning