An Analysis Of Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

To kill a mockingbird can mean many things. It’s the title of a book that has been bought 40 million times. But, it also has a definition. To kill a mockingbird means to destroy innocence. The theme of my literary analysis is mockingbirds. Mockingbirds in TKAM are innocent things tainted by the skewed society of Maycomb. Some of these mockingbirds are Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and the children. To Kill a Mockingbird is a book set in a small Alabama town in the 1930’s. The main character and narrator is Jean Louise Finch, but is almost always called by her nickname, Scout. Scout, her brother, and her summer friend Dill get into all kinds of mischief while living in the racist society of a 1930’s Alabama town. Scout’s dad, Atticus, is a prominent lawyer in Maycomb and is appointed to a controversial case, and is defending a black man. Scout and her brother, Jem go through many troubles and learn many lessons from the days leading up to, and during the trial. The trail makes their family some friends and a lot of enemies. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a story of courage and despair. Throughout TKAM, mockingbirds are used as an example of something innocent being tainted by the skewed society of TKAM. Some great examples of these are Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and the children.

Jem and Scout, throughout “To Kill A Mockingbird,” learn to consider things from other people’s perspectives. Atticus, Jem and Scout’s father, says “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” (Lee 39). They learn this through experiences with their neighbor Boo Radley as they mature beyond their years. At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout make fun of Boo and assume that all of the rumors going around about him are true. However, later on in the story the children grow an admiration for Boo and learn to understand him. As they matured, Jem and Scout naturally learned many life lessons of appreciation, respect, and courage

Harper Lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel takes place during the depression in Alabama with the main character, Scout, viewing her lawyer father, Atticus, defending a wrongly accused black man of rape. The reader gets to understand Scout’s childhood view of this controversial situation. Scout’s character in to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is really the author’s own life playing out in the novel, which is most likely why this novel is thought to be one of the best American Novels of the 20th century.

Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is set in a small Southern United States community called Maycomb during the Great Depression era. The whole book primarily revolves around segregation and racism and how it relates to Maycomb’s history. It eventually leads to the trial of Tom Robinson where he is accused of beating up and raping Mayella Ewell. Even though it was clear that Tom Robinson did not do anything wrong he was convicted by an all white jury simply because he was black. The trial of Tom Robinson and its verdict shows an example of how segregation in the court system prevents fair trials from occurring.

redujice is not something we are born with; it is something that we grow to learn from who and what surrounds us, things that help to form our identity. Prejudice is an integral theme in Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird. Prejudice is evident throughout the novel, not just in the appalling racism but also through, prejudice against different sexual orientations, gender constructs and feminism. Society had certain constructs that had to be met. Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee breaks the bounds to overcome barriers, and challenge social constructs.

The concept of courage is more philosophical rather than something that is real. Its a fact that can’t be substantiated, courage is a non tangible feeling that lies within one's heart and psyche. It isn’t something that you're born with, it's something you work for as you grow older. When the day comes when you have to battle the inner demons that make your life discontented you’ll need to conquer in order to overcome it once and for all.After you overcome the thing that's pains you the most you’ll have the face of courage. The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, it revolves around the idea of courage but to the farthest extremity. The characters are more than just literary entities that inhabit the book, they are individuals

The concept of conforming to society or not has gone through the minds of almost everyone. Recently, I had read two novels. The first concerns a young girl’s journey in discovering what the world is like - unfair, unjust, misleading. She also learns not to be prejudiced and she learned how to not give up: she learned this all from her father. The second follows a teenage girl’s only known world as it’s destroyed. This is the beginning of her troubles since the elders exiled her and her partner. All that they had left were the dangers of the world above ground and her partner’s long ago memories. Though both of these novels seemed as if they have nothing in common, they do have something: the conception of harmonizing or not. After reading

Many times, can read the tittle of the book and able to know what to expect from the story but ‘to kill a mockingbird’ is different. It is little confusing to indicate which characters are indicating the tittle of the book. At one point, Ms. Maudie explains, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee,98). The title refers to innocent people like Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. But the tittle especially refers on Atticus who, is like the mockingbird. His characters of strong believing in justice, compassion and forgiveness toward others, and how he raised his children by his example has shown that Atticus only wish to bring a little happiness into a harsh world.

Our past influences everything we do; from day to day life, to the creative projects we share with the world. This certainly holds true for Harper Lee and Albert Camus, both of whom are authors of award winning novels. These authors allowed their backgrounds to shine through in their writing. Even though some points are more obvious than others, it is easy to find references to the authors’ lives in their stories.

In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the plot is based on what Harper Lee herself has seen in her childhood, her family, neighbors, and the event that occurred near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama in 1936. Racial prejudice was a major issue during this period of time and Lee incorporated this matter by displaying white men as the authoritative figures in Maycomb County. African Americans were always put down and proven guilty even if they were innocent because it was a white person’s word against a black’s. For example, “The Sheriff hadn’t the heart to put him in jail alongside Negroes, so Boo was locked in the courthouse,” (Lee, 14). Clearly, Boo was guilty of breaking the law and committing a crime but because of the fact that

Have you ever been judged for who your family is and not who you are? Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the small town of Maycomb County, and countless families in this community have been given a certain title or characteristic that they are now known by. Since Maycomb is such a small place and not many newcomers have moved in over the years, the people began to think they could tell what a certain person would be like just by who their family was. The environment in which one is placed determines one’s success more than one’s genetic makeup and born ability. Aunt Alexandra gives Scout a speech that proves this is not the mindset in Maycomb.

An individual’s beliefs are often a reflection of the expectations placed on them by society, family, friends and themselves. The type of pressure experienced differs according to social status as well as level of education. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee that follows the life of a young girl named Scout Finch and her experiences as she grows up in the small, Southern town of Maycomb. Through Scout and her family; ideas of injustice, prejudice, courage and character are expanded upon as she explores both her external environment as well as her inner self. As she learns about the world around her and develops opinions on its workings, she often finds herself being challenged by her community and their expectation of what her morals and values should be. More often than not, it is these social standards standing juxtaposed to the morals of the Finch family that help develop a deeper understanding of the ignorance that has shaped Maycomb and its citizens. With this ignorance came underdeveloped models of what each gender, age, race and caste should look like, and these models became the standard of normality for the town. Maycomb’s tendency to follow tradition without question only helped to solidify outdated expectations on collectives. As a direct result, the standards held by the community were considered to be correct, and those who thought otherwise were often pressured into altering their beliefs.

The people who said that junior year would be my toughest year were not kidding. I was juggling advanced classes, starting a new job, and relationships. I was like a sad circus performer. But one the most challenging situations I faced junior year was the dreadful Literary Analysis paper that was assigned to me by my beloved English teacher, Ms.Barnes. We had to find a novel by an American author and analyze a theme or symbol used in his novel. The moment Ms.Barnes explained what we had to do I mentally gave up. But I knew it had to be done. I decided to analyze E.E Cumming's use of love and comic relief in his poems as an escape from reality. My biggest mistake was that I procrastinated this assignment. I would do the bare minimum every other

I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and I am on page 323. This section is about how everyone is coping with the result of the trial and the events after the trial. The jury convicted Tom, and one day he tried to escape, but he was shot 17 times by the police. Two months after the trial on Halloween night, there was a pageant for the kids in which Scout played a ham. Whilst on their way back from the pageant, Jem and Scout were attacked by an unknown figure, later to be recognized as Bob Ewell. But before they were majorly injured, Boo Radley dragged Bob away and stabbed him under the ribs, killing him. In this paper I will be evaluating.

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee one often finds Aunt Alexandra acting as a paternal figure and dictating what Scout is and is not allowed to do. Though I believe there is some wisdom behind Aunt Alexandra’s words, I feel like the strong hold she has on Jem and Scout’s life is excessive and unnecessary. If one does not allow children to create and form new friendships on their own, then the child will never learn how to function by themselves and how to detect and form long-lasting friendships that are not forced. Contrastingly, it is still necessary for there to be a mature presence in a child’s life when it comes to friends, but the parental figure should not overpower and control the child’s every decision. In Alexandra’s case I believe