Author Harper Lee did a fantastic job on adding multiple running themes that would keep the reader tied onto the book To Kill A Mockingbird. Also, Harper Lee found a way to keep her character’s interesting and then have an underlying reason for a particular character to be stagnant. The way in which she was able to do this was through the characters that stayed racist and the characters who were beginning to leap over the racial divide towards equality. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, there were
Spring H English I 27 October 2014 To Kill the Silence Fundamentally, individuals of different races are much more similar to each other than they are different. Yet, instead of building bridges to bring dissimilar races together, many have been creating walls to separate them. Racism is a weapon that is able to dehumanize society, as it promotes the idea that a man should be idealized based on his skin color rather than his character. However, To Kill a Mockingbird is an indictment of racism. The silence
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about two young siblings, Scout and Jem, who are growing up in the 1930’s in Maycomb County. The novel is about how Scout and Jem face the various kinds of discrimination that exist in Maycomb. The story starts with the arrival of the adventurous Dill Harris, who then comes up with the idea of getting their unseen neighbour, Boo Radley, to come out of his house. Together, they come up with many ways to get in contact with Boo. Meanwhile, Scout’s father
Both To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are coming of age novels, set in the deep south of America, in the 1930s and 1830-40s respectively. These eras were times when racism was a given, and it was rare to find someone who wasn't intensely prejudiced. The novels are both bildungsromans, overseeing the emotional and, in Scout's case, literal growth of the young protagonists as they gain experience in their respective societies. The events of To