Analysis Of To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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.

To Kill A Mockingbird is set in Maycomb, Alabama, in the early 1930s. Racism is a real problem in the time period, especially in the South. Not a whole lot happens in Maycomb, it 's a quiet town, but one summer, things start changing. Racism is no longer a distant problem, is it real and present and the folks of Maycomb are forced to deal with it much sooner than they expected.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee set in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s tells the story about a family coping with racism and prejudice in the south as Jim Crow laws are enforced. Also, the children of the Finch family have a constant theme of growing up because of morals and knowledge obtained from influencers such as Atticus, their father. Another key character is Boo Radley although he is in only a few chapters he is in the background of most chapters silently influencing the characters. Arthur ¨Boo¨ Radley’s role in To Kill a Mockingbird is to serve as a symbol of a Mockingbird, introduce mystery into the novel, and set up a theme of heroism. He proves these to be true by being innocent the entire novel, being rumored to be an ominous

To Kill A Mockingbird is a classic story of growing up, racial discrimination, and symbolism. Harper Lee has written a story that has gone down in history and will never be forgotten. In To Kill A Mockingbird, a six-year-old girl Jean Louise Finch, better known as Scout, narrates a story about her young life in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama. Her brother Jem Finch and friend Dill try to meet the secluded and mysterious neighbor. Meanwhile, her father, Atticus Finch is a lawyer that takes on a case in hopes of claiming the innocence of a young black man accused of rape. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses symbolism as a literary device to compare Tom Robinson and Boo Radley to a Mockingbird.

The novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee tells the story of how two children, Jem and Scout Finch, grow up and start to understand the world in more adult ways. In the small town of Maycomb, Alabama, racism and prejudice spreads around. Atticus Finch, a lawyer, defends an African American man who is accused of raping a white woman. This is a journey of learning new morals and compassion through experience and practice. The kids learn important life lessons from their father, Atticus. He educates them on the true meaning of sympathy, understanding toward others, courage, and standing up for what is right through lessons and his examples.

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

“Or didn’t you scream until you saw your father in the window? You didn’t think to scream until then, did you?”

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has become a mainstay in American high-schools. This is a classic novel that has inspired many people of all ages. It had a big impact on how people viewed and treated each other. This is a story that teaches everyone about the value of honesty, love, friendship and trust. Every word written in this book has a truly deep meaning to it. The time period that the book was written in was during the Great Depression in the 1930’s. This setting was in a small town in Maycomb, Alabama with people who did not get along. During this time there was a lot of segregation within America and different races. To Kill a Mockingbird is about a family who believes in doing the right thing and being honest. There was a

Realistic Fiction authors tend to use techniques in their novels to prove a point or show a goal. Techniques are very helpful in writing rRealistic fFiction novels because it helps the reader understand what the author is trying to convey. In this novel with the title To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee used that to her own advantage;, the techniques in this book were very clear to the eye and it helped the reader more to understand the part that they were reading. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird the story is about a little girl named Scout who lives in the south in a little town called Maycomb, Alabama and during the Great Depression in the 1930s. and currently living in the great depression. During the story, Scout’s father Atticus receives a case involving a black man Tom Robinson (a black man) who is convicted of committing a crime to a white woman, and throughout the story many people are against Scout and her family because of her dad’s case and how he is defending a black man. Scout is also the narrator throughout the story and she tells else all of what happens in Maycomb those couple of years. The author Harper Lee uses many techniques, such as providing multiple points of view, showing symbolism, and revealing actions to prove or show a goal in her writing. In this book she used techniques such as providing multiple points of view, showing symbolism, and revealing actions throughout

“People don’t change, they reveal who they really are.” This quote was by a unknown author but, it was talking how people judge other people from what they hear and when they really see how they are, they feel bad for them. Jem, Scout, and Dill was trying to see what Boo Radley looks like. Scout and Jem was finding stuff from an oak tree when they were walking home and they did not know who put it there. Scout sees Boo Radley save Jem and her from Bob Ewell from trying to hurt them. People in Maycomb of Alabama from To Kill A Mockingbird thought Boo Radley was a weird person to be around but, then they saw he was a nice and caring person.

Published in 1960 but set in the deep South during 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.

Harper Lee’s best novel is none other than To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper. The novel was published in 1960 and is a straightforward novel about developing in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Lee attempts to present a sense of moral realities to the reader. Harper Lee through her novel has attempted to present certain moral truths to the reader. She uses the first person point of view to establish compassion to her audience. “The backdrop of the text attracts the reader’s attention to the racial discrimination that was characteristic of the 1930s America” (Dogra 1). The novel has many elements such as terror, corrosion, conundrum and many others. Lee’s best-selling novel, To Kill a Mockingbird establishes that ethics and education coexist and lead to a series of events in the novel.