17 June 2014 The Hidden Meaning In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, Jean Louis “Scout” Finch takes the reader through a series of flashbacks of everything she experiences, from age six to ten, while living in a segregated Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. Scout, the protagonist and narrator, spends her days playing with Jem, her brother who is ten, and Dill, a boy around the same age as Jem, who comes down from Meridian, Mississippi to Maycomb during the summer. To pass the
Harper Lee explores racism in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird through several literary devices, including point of view. Readers learn the story of To Kill a Mockingbird through the point of view of Scout Finch, the six-year-old daughter of a lawyer who defends a black man. In a criticism titled Racism in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Dorothy Jewell Altman writes, “[Harper] Lee believes that children are born with an instinct for truth and justice. Their education, which is the result of observing
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;
stereotypes. Because African Americans are one of the largest and most discriminated against minorities, they are the focus of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird just as they will be the focus of this paper. This paper will analyze the Critical Race Theory as Derrick Bell began it, as well as call upon its significance and relevance in today’s society. To aid in this analysis, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning piece of American literature will be referenced. It is quite clear that as a country, America
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” (U.S. Constitution) This provides freedom for every person in the United States not to be discriminated. However, in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird in the 1930s, discrimination neglected the constitution in the southern town of Maycomb, Alabama. The young narrator in the novel, Scout Finch, experiences the extreme prejudices in her hometown with the help of her brother, Jem, and