To Kill A Mockingbird , is a fictional novel, written by Harper Lee, that make connections to historical events including her life in the 1930’s and the Civil Rights Movement in the 50’s and 60’s. To Kill a Mockingbird is a book that shows both moral and physical courage throughout the book. The narrator, Scout, is a six year old girl who lives with her brother Jem and dad, Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer in Maycomb County, who is chosen to defend a black man who is accused of raping Mayella Ewell the daughter of Tom Ewell. Scout and Jem have a best friend named Dill who visits every summer. They are always daring each other to Boo Radley’s house. Boo Radley is a mysterious man, who never comes out of his house, and in the end is the …show more content…
Atticus Finch, is the father of Jem and Scout. He is a lawyer for Monroeville, Alabama. Harper Lee’s dad, a lawyer in Monroeville, was a former newspaper editor and proprietor and served as a state senator.(kirjasto.sci.fi/harperle.htm) Harper Lee had written To Kill A Mockingbird , which is based on events during Harper Lee’s life. Both blacks and whites had suffered setbacks in the 1930’s.(Moss,391) Cotton prices fell and stayed low for several years.(Moss,391) Whites believed they were superior to all blacks. Towns were organized by skin color, and class structure was based on income and achievements. In TKAM, the Cunningham’s were very poor, and never took money from anybody. They had repaid people by giving them crops they had grown on their farm. Jim Crow Laws was a racial caste system with a series of anti-rigid black laws(David). Some laws were, whites were allowed to beat black, white and blacks were not allowed to eat together. Also, there was a lot of segregation and prejudice people. Newspapers and magazines were stereotyping blacks, calling them names and even children’s board games were portrayed as blacks being inferior beings.(Pilgrim) Many people believe that Harper Lee had based the Tom Robinson trial, on the Scottsboro trial. In The Scottsboro trial 9 boys had allegedly raped 2 white woman on a train.(Johnson) The nine boys were found guilty and were sentenced to death, they had a retrial but
To Kill A Mockingbird is a book about courage to what extent do you agree with this?
"I wanted to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun." What kinds of heroism and courage are shown in To Kill a Mockingbird? Discuss.
To KIll a Mockingbird, a novel written by Harper Lee, is set in a small fictional town of Maycomb Alabama in the 1930’s. The story emphasizes the horrors of prejudiced and its impact on a small southern community. In this novel, Harper Lee introduces the reader to many themes, one of them being that courage is doing what’s right even when the odds of succeeding are poor.
To Kill a Mockingbird, a classic novel written by Harper Lee, is focused on racism that takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s, where African Americans were segregated by white men. Harper Lee said that the Scottsboro trial, which was a trial that started because of discrimination, inspired her on writing To Kill a Mockingbird. Despite the differences between the Scottsboro Boys and To Kill a Mockingbird, both of them had an impact on the racial implications and laws of the south.
In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the author follows the childhood of the main character known as Jeremy Atticus Finch. He is the son of lawyer Atticus Finch, and older brother of Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout. The family lives in a fictional town called Maycomb, Alabama. In their early lives, the two siblings were infatuated in figuring out the secrets of the Radley family, especially Boo Radley, in the house down their road. At the beginning of the story, their curiosity plays a big part in their lives. This builds during their many experiences and gives the readers a better sense of the characters’ traits. Jem Finch plays one of the key roles in the storyline and has a very brave, emotional, and protective personality.
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a timeless novel that has been both accepted and refused by many readers. To Kill a Mockingbird took place is a town called Maycomb. It is narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, otherwise known as Scout, who learns how to deal with many things in her life. While learning to deal with racism, injustice, and criticism, she also finds courage being showed by many of her role models. The theme courage is best depicted through Boo Radley, Scout and Atticus.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, there are many characters that demonstrate heroic qualities. The story is narrated by a young girl named Scout Finch who lives in Maycomb County Alabama in the 1930’s. There is a lot of racial prejudice in Maycomb County and Scout’s father, Atticus, is a lawyer defending a black man named Tom Robinson. In the novel, Atticus, Scout, and Scout’s brother Jem have to overcome many insults and bullying because Atticus is defending a black man. While the trial is going on, Scout and Jem befriend their mysterious neighbor whom they have never even seen. Through this friendship and the trial Scout and Jem are able to open their eyes to the injustices and prejudices of the people of Maycomb. Scout, Atticus, and Tom Robinson are all heroes in the small town of Maycomb.
"Courage isn't an absence of fear. It's doing what you are afraid to do. It's having the power to let go of the familiar and forge ahead into new territory." ~John Maxwell. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout (Jean Louise Finch), Jem (Jeremy Atticus Finch), and Atticus Finch display acts of valor that contribute, and in some cases encourage their rectitude. Harper Lee demonstrates that acting courageously can lead to an improved, sustained, or newly developed personal integrity.
Rickey Williams says, “I don’t think people change. I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It’s just maturity.” (Ricky, Williams). In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the characters face many challenges in their society and experience lessons that made them different, than from the beginning of the book. Atticus, the father of Scout and Jem, is a lawyer in Maycomb County during the 1930’s. Atticus is given a special case where he has to defend a black man, which creates many problems for him and his family against their town, dealing with racism. In the novel Atticus, Scout, and Jem are all wise people that symbolize a mockingbird.
But, one of the most noticeable connections, is the the trial in the novel. The Scottsboro Boys’ and Tom Robinson's case are very much the same. One major similarity between the two is that they are both rape accusations against african america men in the south around the 1930’s. Harper Lee writes in her book, “The witnesses for the state have presented themselves to you gentlemen, to this court, on the cynical confidence that their testimony would not be doubted, confident that you gentlemen would go along with them on the assumption-the evil assumption-that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women, an assumption one associates with minds of their caliber” (Lee 204). This quote is referring to the racism that was going on in the south. What Atticus was trying to convey to the court was that not all african americans are bad, not all of them want to steal kill and destroy. But yet, the court couldn’t see past their racist prejudices and sentenced Tom Robinson to punishment and he was eventually killed. Just as Tom R`obinson was wrongly accused of rape and found guilty for it, as were the 9 scottsboro boys. Harper Lee was inspired by the Scottsboro Trial to write To Kill a
The novel to Kill a Mockingbird, is about a young girl named Jean Louise Finch. She is also known as Scout. Scout experiences different events that change her life. Scout and her brother Jem are being raised by their father, a lawyer named Atticus and a housekeeper named Calpumia in a small town called Maycomb. In the South racism and discriminations towards black was a big issue . The story begins when Scout and her brother, become fascinated with a mysterious man known as Boo Radley. Scout and Jem meet boy named Dill who comes from Mississippi to spend the summers there. Jem quickly tells the story of Boo Radley to young Dill. Boo Radley, a man in his thirties who has not been seen outside of his home in years, mainly because of
The character of Jem Finch, in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, noticeably matures and changes throughout the story. His father Atticus has just been assigned a case in which he must defend an African American, which gains him and his family negative attention from most of the town. However, he still finds time to raise Jem and his younger sister Scout, which includes him teaching them about what is takes to possess courage. Jem’s original idea of courage was measured by physical as opposed to moral means. As Jem ages, he learns that courage can also be defined as not just doing something for the attention but doing it because it is the right thing to do.
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel that deals with racial tensions in the 1930s and how the kids of a white lawyer deal with the prejudice and racism in their small Deep Southern town as he defends a black man wrongly accused of rape. Through the painful summer in which the case is prosecuted, Jem and Scout both mature, each in different ways. One of the characters that helps Scout to mature in particular is Boo Radley, the town’s reclusive, ghost-like phantom that all the children are scared of. Boo helps Scout to mature both directly and indirectly, both through his presence and his actions. Throughout the story, Scout hears a lot of gossip about Boo Radley, and she thinks of him as an intimidating nocturnal creature. However, there are several events that help Scout to fully understand that Boo, and and every person, is not what he seems, therefore helping her to mature.
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a story of racial prejudice and social class set in a time when such narrow-mindedness was considered acceptable and apart of every day life in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama. Narrated and based around Scout (Jean Louise) Finch and the many ordeals she and her brother (Jem) face in the years of their growing up; out of the childhood innocence they once possessed to realise the true evils of their community and shed false pretences surrounding the innocence of two such characters as Boo Radley and Tom Robinson for which the community of Maycomb had long
There was never a moment where I just thought of myself as a reader while reading To Kill a Mockingbird. I felt as though I was right beside Scout as she grows up and learns important lessons about life. One of the many lessons that impacted me greatly was the one about how courage can come in different shapes from the most unexpected people I know. Another lesson involved choosing to fight back people with my head despite the fact that they are using violence on me. I have learned more than two lessons, but these two were the most important to me.