To kill a mockingbird is about growing up. The main character is a girl named Scout Finch, who was about to turn 6 when the book begins and 8 when it ends. The book is about what she learns about people and about life over the course of those two years. The book takes place between 1933 and 1935 in Maycomb, Alabama. It’s a small sleepy town in the deep South. Scout’s father, Atticus, is a lawyer but they don’t have much money because his clients are poor. Scout lives with her father, her brother
To Kill a Mockingbird Final Essay Freshman English Introduction The literary critic Wayne C. Booth contends that when we read literature we “stretch our own capacities for thinking about how life should be lived.” If this is so, then the study of a novel such as To Kill a Mockingbird ought to conclude with reflection about what we can learn by reading it and then put into practice in our own lives. During our studies of To Kill a Mockingbird, we have wrestled with profound moral and ethical questions;
civil war, President Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation. But one hundred years later, the black people were still suffering from all kinds of racial discrimination events. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, what was really being killed is the justice and the sense of right and wrong. Atticus, father of Jem and Scout, tries to hang on to his sense of right and wrong when the system failed him. He chose to defend for a innocent black man named Tom Robinson, although he knows it is not a smart
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. This saying is true in many cases and happens to be true in To Kill A Mockingbird. Throughout the book you see children start to grow up and act like their fathers. This essay will be looking at three families in To Kill A Mockingbird, the Finches, the Cunninghams, and the Ewells. These three families are key examples that a father’s influence has a significant impact on the character of his children. Atticus Finch is a morally upright person as he does not
Racism in To Kill a Mockingbird(Racism) The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee was written to describe how life was, in Deep South Alabama in the 1930s. The story is in the view of Scout and Jem Finch. Scout is a smart girl and she relies heavily on her father. Atticus, their father, is a lawyer who is defending Tom Robinson, a black man with the charge of raping a white girl. “It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest
To Kill a Mockingbird: The Theme of Prejudice In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the author harper lee explores the theme of prejudice, a major occurrence in the town of Maycomb. The novel, written by Harper lee (born 1926), is a rough recount of her childhood and looks upon the lessons that she learnt throughout it. Her father, Atticus, practices law in the town of Maycomb where one summer he defends a black man wrongly accused, this event defines her childhood. In the novel Harper Lee explores
To Kill a Mockingbird is a book written by Harper Lee. The time is set in the 1930s, and the story surrounds a family of three and the small town of Maycomb. Atticus Finch is a father and a lawyer who goes through an exhausting court case. The novel comes from his daughter, Scout’s, point of view. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee shows Atticus as a consistent, fair, and honest person to help represent the theme of equality. Throughout the whole novel, Atticus shows consistency to all people, whether
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee reveals an aspect of a small fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama set in the 1940’s during the years of the Great Depression. The novel reflects the ideas of conscience, courage and conviction through the story of two young children Jem and Scout growing up with their unconventional father Atticus, a small town lawyer. The novel is concerned with a series of events and experiences from which Scout and Jem observe and evaluate a series of situations and valuable
A Man With Courage In To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the narrator, Scout, describes her father as only satisfactory. Though Atticus may not be perfect, he does deserve more than satisfactory. Scout has every right to think of him this way, but there are copious moments throughout the book that can prove her wrong. In this essay the reader will see that Atticus is more loving, more morally sturdy, and more patient than Scout sees. than most fathers of the time period were. The reader will
Childhood in essence is like the roots of a tree; those roots need nourishment and time to grow into a strong foundation that is even stronger than the tree itself. However, when not provided the right kind or amount of nourishment, the roots will wither and the tree will not grow into the majestic life form that it could have been. This idea of the importance of childhood and its effect on people is illustrated in Harper Lee’s novel: To Kill a Mockingbird. To Kill a Mockingbird follows the lives of