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Jem And Scout About The Trial
4,278 wordsTo Kill A Mockingbird - Chapters 18-19 Summary Mayella testifies next, a reasonably clean nineteen-year- old girl who is obviously terrified. She says that she called Tom Robinson inside the fence that evening and offered him a nickel to break up a dresser for her, and that once he got inside the house he grabbed her and took advantage of her. In Atticus' cross-examination, Mayella reveals that she has seven siblings to care for, a drunken father, and no friends. Then Atticus examines her testim...
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Scout And Jem
740 wordsTo Kill a Mockingbird Usually, my method of writing a book review starts off with a quote. However, this time with this particular book I've decided to begin with a description of the author. Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926. She studied law along with her father and sister. In her allegorical novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee writes about a young girl in a small southern town by showing the difficulties she will have to face as she grows up. The author's purpose is to show us how li...
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Scout Jem S Attack Bob Ewell
2,451 wordsTo Kill a Mockingbird Nelle Harper Lee used her life as part of her storyline in To Kill a Mockingbird. Mockingbird won many award like the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Her story was also turned into an Academy award winning film and an English play. To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about friendships, racism, and injustices. ABOUT NELLE HARPER LEE She was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama. She studied law at the University of Alabama from 1945-1949, and then spent a year as an exchange s...
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Trial Of Tom Robinson Scout
1,687 wordsTo Kill A Mockingbird By: Harper LeeSUMMARYTo Kill a Mockingbird opens with Dill coming to visit his Aunt for the summer. Dill becomes a good friend with the Finches, Jean-Louise, who is nicknamed Scout and her brother, Jeremy Finch, who is nicknamed Jem. They live with their father, Atticus, who is a lawyer who had been given a case to handle and did not have any choice but to receive it and work his best for his client. The case was about an African man, named Tom Robinson, who was accused of ...
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Jem And Scout From Bob Ewell
884 wordsScout learned a number of things in the book, but most of them all refer back to a statement that Atticus and Calpurnia said, which goes, "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird because all they do is sing their hearts our for us". (Lee, pg. 90). Scout learned that about people, too. She learned that some people don't do anything to you, so it would be a sin to do something mean in return. Over the course of the story Scout becomes more mature and learns the most important facts of life. She was livin...
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Tom Robinson And Arthur Boo Radley
754 wordsIn Harper Lee's novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Miss Maudie said that it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. Mrs. Maudie defines what mockingbirds are by saying that they don t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don t eat up people's gardens, don t nest in corncrib's, they don t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us" (90). Tom Robinson and Arthur Boo Radley are the two mockingbirds in the novel because they were people that never harmed anyone. Tom Robinson was a helpful, carin...
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Action And Jem And Scout Start
4,189 wordsCHAPTER 1-3 To Kill a Mocking-Bird (TKMB) by Harper Lee starts off by introducing the characters and the town of Maycomb. Characters including The Radleys, especially Boo Radley, and Dill Harris and in less detail the immediate family of Scout, who is narrating the story. Scout is a girl, she would be about six years old but is in the first grade. I find it amazing that she has such a wide vocabulary for a girl so young. Scout is the troublemaker of the class, but does not come out that way to m...
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Character Boo Radley
1,356 wordsIn the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, through a child's eyes Harper Lee develops a character named Arthur Radley. Arthur is know to the children simply as Boo. The name they have given him, depicts the way the children views him. Throughout the town of Maycomb, people twisted Boo's personality and character into a terrible person. As the novel unfolds, the children finally discover the true character of Boo. But, because Arthur Radley lived in the shadows of society, the creation of the myth of th...
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Most Important Person In Scout's Life
1,002 wordsTo Kill A Mocking Bird deals with many primal and basic lessons in human nature. The book exposes many issues that affect most people throughout their lives. Scout, the main character was one of the most affected by these lessons. During the book she was exposed to many profound experiences, which no doubt will leave a lasting impression. In the three years that the book took place, she may have learned the most important things she will learn over her entire life. One person that affected Scout...
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One Day As Jem And Scout
1,198 wordsIn the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, one of the most prominent themes is the idea of ignorance in people. Ignorance, being the condition of being uneducated or unaware, is apt to be found all throughout the citizens of Maycomb county, whether it is in the form of racism and prejudice against blacks during the trial of Tom Robinson, or playing a part in the Finch children's attitude and views of others. Although possibly an underdeveloped topic, this is one of the bases for much of th...
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Great Compassion And Tolerance
653 wordsDo you not believe we need more compassion and tolerance in the world? Why can we not be like Atticus, Jem or Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee? These characters show great compassion and tolerance throughout the novel despite the society they live in. They have the courage to stand up for what they believe in. Atticus shows great compassion and tolerance when he stands up for the Negroes. He stands up and represents Tom Robinson because he believes that everyone should be treated e...
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Kill A Mockingbird
769 wordsNelle Harper Lee's Philosophy on the Proper Treatment of Human Beings in To Kill A Mockingbird The 1930's were a time in which blacks faced many hardships. It was a time in which the Ku Klux Klan had its peak. However, most importantly, it was the time when Nelle Harper Lee, the writer of To Kill A Mockingbird, was being raised. She was raised in a world where 'niggers'; were the bottom class in one of the most powerful countries in the world. She was also being raised during the Great Depressio...
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Jem Finch And Charles Norstadt
1,092 wordsComparing To Kill a Mockingbird with The Man Without a Face "Fighting Fear and Tradition" Michael Jordan can't single-handedly win a basketball game. Wayne Gretzky can't win hockey games by himself either. It takes a team effort to be successful. That was exactly the case in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and The Man Without a Face. Even though the time period of To Kill a Mockingbird (1930s) and The Man Without a Face (1960s) were vastly different, everyone needed help, no matter how danger...
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Respect For The Black People Harper Lee
980 wordsTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee takes place in Alabama through the 1930's. Harper Lee explores the life of two young children, and the flaws of society they must overcome. Throughout this time period black citizens are mistreated by a majority of white citizens. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee creates a supportive and positive portrayal of black citizens. One way which Harper Lee creates a supportive and positive portrayal is through showing the injustice that the black citizens go thro...
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Woods And Attacks Scout And Jem
600 wordsThe movie To Kill a Mockingbird was made in 1962. It is based on Harper Lee's Prize winning book To Kill a Mockingbird published in 1960. The story is told through the eyes of Jean Louise, better known as Scout Finch. It is about a family living in a racially divided Alabama town. Scout's father, Atticus Finch, is a ery famous lawyer in Macomb, Alabama. Scout is a six-year-old tomboy who tells the story of life in the segregated town of Macomb. Her brother, Jem Finch and cousin Dill Finch enjoy ...
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Scout's Perspective Of Maycomb
2,162 wordsWrite About the ways in which Harper Lee creates tension, drama and humour in chapter 15 of To Kill A Mockingbird. The atmosphere created in chapter 15 is tense and dramatic from the first paragraph. The introductory paragraph to chapter 15 ends with "A nightmare was upon us". This obviously tells us that an event of an unpleasant nature is yet to occur. The second paragraph starts with "It began one evening". This tells us that the nightmare is beginning, and builds us up for the chapter. Harpe...
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Scout And Jem
500 words'A child learns more from personal experience than by simply being told something. ' Discuss this idea, with reference to 'To Kill A Mockingbird'. Children learn more from personal experience than by simply being told something. Whether it be pulling out the neighbors prize pansies or holding Freddie the fish out of the water for three minutes and seeing if he will survive, regardless of what parents or teachers say, children will generally go ahead and ignore the warning. Not so surprisingly, t...
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Jem Dill And Scout
816 wordsHow does Harper lee present childhood in the book To Kill A Mocking Bird? The book is supposed to be written from a child's point of view on their surroundings but an adult writes it from a child's imagination and thoughts. Scout is telling the story and she seems to be very literate and knowledgeable about things. However the book seems to give the impression that she is very intelligent. Jem, Scout and dill are the most important and lead children in the book. Throughout to kill a mocking bird...
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Ami Like Mrs Dubose
843 wordsHarper Lee portrayed Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose in an unique style. Mrs. Dubose was a very ill woman who only has a nigger woman as company. Her illness had separated her from socializing with friends and had restricted her from doing things that normal women are doing. For instance, having afternoon tea with neighbors, or taking a night stroll with friends. Mrs. Dubose was a very straight forward lady. When she had something to say, she would not hesitate or stop to think what other people wou...
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Boo Radley Lives In Seclusion
782 wordsArthur Radley's Character Ms. Arthur Radley's Character Essay, Research Paper Ms. Lee has gone a long way to create this novel of carefully sustained mystery that she calls "To Kill A Mockingbird'. Harper Lee Describes her tranquil southern town that surprises you with a climax so astonishing, it can be described as an erupt lava of emotions. In this melodramatic novel, the most unforgettable character, in my opinion, was Arthur Radley (A.K.A. Boo). Boo can be characterized as reclusive, misinte...
