Holes and most recently, To Kill a Mockingbird. Today I am here to examine how innocence is portrayed in the two texts To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies. To start this off, I will first explain to you all how innocence is represented at the start of the two novels. Furthermore, there are various events that demonstrate the loss of innocence. Finally, the main characters in each text realise the evil that surrounds them. In both of the two texts, To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies,
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;
touch, interactive camera angles, and a sense of chaos through motion to provoke rage among the audience. Conversely, Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird employs a lack of action and audio techniques to produce a sense of resignation among the viewing audience. Speaking directly to the paucity of justice present in the film, once Atticus urges the jury to “believe Tom Robinson” in the name of God, he sits down in total silence and the audience views a full shot taken from the judge’s perspective where
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 her father