Harper Lee Essay Examples
“You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it’s hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.” – Anna Deavere Smith. This quote was referring to the ghastly Jim Crow laws. The Jim Crow laws…
Arthur “Boo” Radley is an enigmatic character in To Kill A Mocking bird who is shut up in his house throughout the novel. Although he was described as a monster who eats cats and squirrels, that was not the case. He is one of the “mockingbirds” in the novel, a kind man injured by the…
Interpretive Essay To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel about a young girl, her brother, a close friend their adventures in finding Boo Radley, and growing up in a prejudiced society. The book’s main character, Jeane-Louise Finch, nicknamed Scout, is shown how cruel and unfair the world can be, especially southern Alabama during the…
Choose a character from To Kill a Mockingbird, to write about. Here are some suggestions: *Scout Finch *Boo Radley *Atticus Finch *Jem Finch *Tom Robinson *Mayella Ewell *Dill Harris **Note…. All examples from In the Heat of the Night. Step 1 – Pre-Writing/Outline Brainstorm for several character traits, using the sheet(s) provided. Then, try to…
Bob Ewell is a character in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Bob Ewell is the head of the Ewell family, a poor family who lives in the town dump. Bob Ewell has many children, but his wife is deceased. Bob Ewell’s racist attitude, fecklessness and vengefulness make him one of the most hated…
Whites Rise, Blacks Fall “Not only a Finch waiting on tables, but one in the courthouse lawing for n*****s!” (135). This is an insult clearly said by Mrs. Dubose, a fictional character introduced by Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird. It is evident from Mrs. Dubose’s statement that blacks are discriminated against in Maycomb…
Why Us!? On September 1929, Andrew Mellon declared, “There is no cause to worry. The high tide of prosperity will continue.” It made the people wonder, “Is this true?” The people of Maycomb County, Alabama, had a long way to recovery. Many are dirt poor, and others were pulled down along with them. During the…
Unveiled Eyes In Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression, Atticus Finch, a lawyer in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, explains to Scout Finch, his daughter, that “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in it”…
Jeremy Atticus Finch, also known as Jem, is a boy of 13 in the classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. He is a curious and mature young man, who has to learn a few lessons along the way. Lizabeth is a young girl who lives in a poverty struck family, in the short story, Marigolds….
In the novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee, learning to “walk about in someone’s skin” is a main theme, particularly as two of the main protagonists Jem and Scout learn to do this as they grow up throughout the book along with the reader. Atticus, the children’s father, educates the children on how…
To Kill a Mockingbird Essay We all grow up after a while. It’s just a part of life and maturing. This book is all about kids maturing and learning life lessons to learn more of the world and the way society works. They find it hard at first and don’t understand certain things and why…
Defining Heroism Each individual has their own personal definition of heroism or more specifically the characteristics of a true hero. Some may believe that a hero must be a person of high morals, while others may believe that a hero must a brave person, and yet others may believe that a hero can conceivably be…
How do the authors of To Kill a Mockingbird and One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest use literary techniques to explore the concepts of isolation? Isolation and courage in the form of racism and discrimination is an analogous concept explored in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird and Ken Kesey’s novel One flew over…
Perpetual Prejudice As George Aiken once said, “If we were to wake up some morning and find out that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.” Society just cannot function without some form of judgment or racism. Even though men are supposed to be…
When confronted with conflict, peoples moral centre can cause them to act in heroic ways. When we are exposed to war and devastation our reactions to this……… Thousands of Chinese students gathered in a peaceful protest for basic Democratic reform at Tiannaman Square 1984. Due to these actions they were senselessly and inhumanely killed in…
