To Kill a Mockingbird is a wonderful novel that is fun to read and teaches many great life lessons. The story is set in a small, poor, rural town, in Maycomb County, Alabama; in which everybody knows each other. Scout, a young girl, lives with her father Atticus, a very wise man, and her brother Jem, a rowdy young boy. She is not like other girls, she is a tom boy and very intelligent for her age. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout goes through many changes and plays a large role in most of the themes
interests at heart. She tries to teach Scout how to survive in the world, and Atticus is trying to teach her to change it, or at least not to be her follower. Ultimately, she needs to learn both lessons. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout the protagonist, who is a young girl come to see the world through the eyes of people inMaycomb. Scout meets numerous characters, that help her learn about the prejudice, discrimination, and of things she could not understand
While some may disagree with that statement, in the case of Jean Louise Finch —known as Scout in her childhood— the main protagonist in the novel, “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee, that statement is upheld. It is a sequel to the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird”. The story begins in the 1950’s, as Jean Louise is returning to visit her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama from New York City. She made this journey to check up on her elderly father, Atticus, and during her time back in her hometown, she finds
Slaughtered Songbirds: Symbolism in To Kill a Mockingbird Mockingbirds are some of the most intelligent and beloved birds in America. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, set in 1930s Maycomb, Alabama, uses many recurring symbols to explore the topic of racial injustice. Described by Miss Maudie Atkinson as a gentle bird who does nothing but sing its heart out, the mockingbird is used throughout the story to symbolize innocence and goodness. With hearts full of kindness and humanity, Tom Robinson
The mental scales of subjective equality distort our perspective on humanity. These fragile gauges are not only easily tampered, but also easily detected. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout and Jem both experience the turmoil of inequalities. While in Maycomb, their home town, they encounter many types of discriminations. Because of that, it caused the children to have that same attitude themselves toward their town. This simple fact can be seen in the many parts of the book
I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by: Harper Lee, and I am on page 42. So far the book is about the Finch family who live in Maycomb County, Alabama. The Finch family consists of Scout, who is in first grade and Jem who is in fifth grade. Their father is named Atticus and their mother passed away when Scout was only 2 years old. Calpurnia (Cal) is labeled as their cook, but does so much more around the house than just cook. Scout and Jem made a friend over the summer, his name was Dill. They
The film version of To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), which stars Gregory Peck as Atticus and Mary Badham as Scout, is as much a classic as the novel itself. Ideally, a novel and its film version enhance each other, which,in many ways, is the case with To Kill a Mockingbird. However, film can accomplish some things that novels simply cannot. Although the book was a masterpiece, the movie gives us a better and more realistic feel to the plot and setting. To begin, the movie portrays the emotional scenes
In the world of today, there are many people who have great personalities. Some of these personalities make people love you or care for you. Atticus Finch is one of these people in the fictional novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that revolves around the Finch family problems with certain cruel people.Atticus Finch is a man who gives equality to all types of people, and respects their opinion. Scout Finch begins to develop the same characteristics his father
In her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee writes an account of the narrator Scout’s childhood and how she matures over the course of a few years. In the story, Scout Finch and her brother, Jem, live in Maycomb, Alabama. They think Maycomb is a perfect world. When Atticus, their father, is asked to defend Tom Robinson who is a black man falsely accused of rape, they realize Maycomb is a not-so-perfect town. Most of the citizens are racist and hateful. Lee uses the many lessons she and Jem learned
things that have happened to various populations before. Firstly, media is a candidate that shows a strong representation of stereotypes and labels. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, it’s shown that Tom Robinson, an African American man, is judged on his race instead of the actual evidence. The racial stereotyping shows in To Kill a Mockingbird because of the community’s mindset that every African American is bad and cannot be trusted. Another good source of labeling and stereotypes can be seen in movies