Analysis Of Harper Lee 's ' 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’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.

    Throughout time authors have used symbolism to express a greater meaning in simple words because it allows readers to connect the real world to what they are reading in an abstract way, like philosophers using the dove to represent peace and fire to represent ferocity; in To Kill A Mockingbird  , Harper Lee uses symbolism to make a point about maturity in particular when Miss Maudie gives Jem cake, when scout tries to learn innocence and when scout tries to learn how to observe a situation from someone else's perspective.

The word “fire” is used in this chapter multiple times. The first time it pops up is when Miss. Maudie’s house catches fire and burns down. During this, Scout and Jem become increasingly worried. After this tragedy, they come outside and see Ms. Maudie standing there. When they ask her about how she feels, she responds strangely by saying that it’s the best thing that ever happened, and she can finally start over. One can become reminded of pine cones for instance. During a fire, the seeds in the pine cones come out, almost like popcorn. So in this wave of sadness from things burning down, something new is created, a pine cone, or in Ms. Maudie’s case, a new chapter in her life. We can also see a “fire” in Scout’s temperament and actions. When

“Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory of personality argues that human behaviour is the result of the interactions among three component parts of the mind: the id, ego, and superego”. Harper Lee crafts Jem proficiently enough to allow analysts to apply three components to explain Jem’s personal development and maturity growth. The id relates to Jem’s initial self, super ego relates to his learning curve during Tom Robinson's trial and the ego is how he comes to a substantial understanding of the world around him.

Once you climb into someone’s skin, you cannot judge them based on their cover. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is a story about three little kids and their mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. Scout Finch and Jem Finch live with their widowed father, Atticus, in the sleepy old town of Maycomb. One summer, they met Dill, who will live with Miss Rachel every summer from now on, and Scout and Jem told Dill about the spooky house down the street. Eventually, Dill becomes curious about the mysterious house, and the three of them started a new adventure. Boo Radley and Nathan Radley are the owners of the spooky house. Boo Radley never ventures outside for many years because he is locked up inside for what he did back in his youth. After the summer

Throughout human history, the transformation from naïve children to mature adults has been of profound importance. The various customs to prove maturation in different cultures shows the widespread significance of this transition. Within literature, the variety of passages to maturation spanning from peaceful and blissful to depressing and unbearable activities exhibits the embodiment of this tedious process. Bildungsromans embody all of these different paths from the common starting point of birth. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one such Bildungsroman about a girl’s maturation contrasted with the children around her. Through the utilization of different economic and familial backgrounds during the Great Depression allows Lee to

What is a family? A Family is usually defined by its complex set of relationships that help pass on values, morals, and love through the generations. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, may be one of the most famous and raved about novels of the 20th century, the story focuses on the importance of family and the differences in their morals and values. The concept of family is essential to this story, it serves as one of the main themes present throughout the novel, giving us insight to the reasoning behind character’s actions and motives. The degree in which the Cunninghams, Ewells, and Harris family reflect these essential qualities of family vary greatly due to their different set of morals, parenting styles, and socioeconomic status. In this essay, the variation of these qualities of “family” amongst the families of Maycomb will be explored.

In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses characterization through differences between Atticus and Aunt Alexandra to exhibit how a person’s thoughts and actions determine their character.

Mockingbirds (Innocence/ morals and values)– The book depicts mockingbirds as innocent creatures that shouldn’t be harmed since they did nothing to harm others. While practicing with their rifles, Atticus tells Jem and Scout that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. The mockingbirds share a connection with Tom Robinson since they are both innocent and don’t deserve to be harmed. However, due to the racist attitudes of southern American citizens in the 1930s, he was killed. Similar to killing a mockingbird, only evil came from it. It prevented nothing bad and presented nothing good, it only served to shake Maycomb citizens’ faith in justice. (Jem and Atticus especially)

“It's not who I am underneath but what I do that defines me” Christian Bale. It doesn't matter what whether you’re black, white, male, or female it is your actions that define you. To most people of Maycomb it doesn't matter of your race, if you were black you were considered immoral, liars untrustworthy. Atticus had to defend his client (Tom Robinson) from these same judgments that were plaguing the black community. Atticus tried his hardest, but in the end it didn't matter. The jury didn't judge Tom on the facts that were given, nor did they judge Tom on his character, but they judged him on the sole fact that he was a black man.

Published in 1960 but set in the deep South of the 1930’s, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird was an instant classic that has endured for more than half a century. Still taught in schools and often referenced in popular culture, Lee’s story of the Finch family in tiny Maycomb, Alabama is known as a “Great American Novel” because of Lee’s entertaining examination of so many timeless, socially relevant themes. Through her characters of Atticus Finch, his daughter Scout, and their mysterious neighbor Boo Radley, Lee considers the theme of courage in its many forms as her story unfolds.

That night I went to the jail with my friends for we had planned to kill Tom Robinson for what crime he had done but, Atticus Finch’s daughter made me change my mind about it. She told me about my legal entailments and to tell my son she had said hello. I felt ashamed and so small in front of my friends I had to leave the jail. I may be racist toward blacks because I’m so mistreated by Maycomb’s part of society.