Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee has been banned and/or challenged over thirty times since its publication in 1960. Effectively preventing many students from enjoying the novel and benefitting from its message. To ignore racism is no different than denying it ever existed. To Kill a Mockingbird is appropriate for mature adolescence/students and should not be banned from schools. Despite its sexual related content, or profanity, a valuable lesson remains that should be taught to students.

“Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a profound tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there” ~ Scott Peck. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird abounds with the injustice produced by social, gender, and racial prejudice. The setting of the book takes place in the 1930s, where racism is a big deal in society. In the novel Harper Lee uses a mockingbird as an analogy to the characters. The Mockingbird is a symbol for Three Characters in the book, Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley. The people of Maycomb only know Boo Radley and Tom Robinson by what others say about them. These Characters are then characterized by other people 's viewpoints. In the novel there are many themes that are adjacent to our lives, the one that is found in To Kill A Mockingbird is Human Conflict comes from the inability for one to understand another. “ You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (39)

Lynchings were commonplace, yet one of the most heinous acts of mob justice dealt out in the Jim Crow era. Between the years 1880 and 1930, 3,343 lynchings occurred in the United States. Eighty percent of lynchings occurred in the American South with the majority of these occurring in Mississippi and Georgia (Manis 56). Macon was not an exception to the outburst of lynchings. Six known lynchings occurred in Bibb County: one in 1880’s, one in the 1890’s, one in 1912, and three in years spanning from 1918 to 1922 (Manis 57). The three lynchings that occurred from 1918 to 1922 came at a time when returning WW1 veterans, exposed to entirely

Every man has opinions, some which are stronger than others, but do these thoughts define the man? In Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s play Inherit The Wind opinions do not define the people who advocate them. Each character in this play has viewpoints that influence their actions. The bravery, honesty and determination required to express an opinion defines a person more than the opinion, allowing one to respect a man who advocates unpopular opinions.

Soon upon opening the index, which was essentially a record of the family names living in Morris County around that time, I quickly located the name Tuttle S and Tuttle C. Both names gestured towards a map, consisting of both Hanover and Whippany Township. Knowing that Caleb Tuttle was the priority, I learned that he had been living in the historic Littleton district, and, not far from the tuttle property, just up the road in fact, I saw the Haring Property on the map. Not farm from the Haring Farm were two properties labelled as Shelley and Rowe. In other words, by investigating the Tuttle family to serve as a marker when natural landmarks failed me, I learned that the Tuttles and the Harings had lived in Hanover Township, Morris County, during

Located on the Cumberland Plateau, Harlan County was “founded by eight families from the northern regions of the British Isles. Soon after, two of the families engaged in a feud that began with a game of poker and became so violent that dozens of people were murdered in a series of brazen attacks.

The Coffee County Courthouse portrays life in the United States between 1855 and 1990 by showcasing how the judiciary system shaped America both positively and negatively. In a report on Coffee County, Georgia history mentioned that wherever a community of people arises there is always a need for a form of law and order, which was with the first settlers of Coffee County. Coffee County was created by an act of the General Assembly on February 9th, 1854, which provided for the election of county officials in 1855 – 5 justices of the inferior court. The act also gave the right to purchase land, levy a special tax, and contract for building a courthouse. Unfortunately, the courthouse fell victim to two fires before the building that is still in

———. “Volume Two: A Celebration of Guilford County Since 1890.” In History of Guilford County, North Carolina, U.S.A. to 1980, A.D., edited by Sydney M. Cone, Jr., 149-260. Guilford County: The Guilford County Bicentennial Commission, 1981.

Has the population of 95,334 people and also it is located in the Black Warrior River and it’s the fifth largest city in Alabama. It was incorporated as a town in December13, 1819. It is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County is in the west central Alabama.

In the upper Valley & Ridge plans of Georgia is a small city of Kennesaw Georgia. It was originally name Big Shanty it was originally inhabited by Native Americans tribes. Which is known as Cobb County it was officially incorporated on September 21, 1887.

The murder of Danny Hansford was the main occasion throughout the book. Jim Williams, who was friends with Hansford, was accused of killing the boy and was “charged with murder” (171). The body was found in Williams’s house, also known as the “Mercer House” (3), but once the police arrived, the body appeared tampered with, making Williams look guilty. Throughout the book, Williams was questioned and was put on trial multiple times. However, the murder was one of Savannah’s secrets that was not shared with tourist. For example, during a tour of Savannah, they walked past the Mercer House and the guide shared the history of the house but “said nothing about Jim Williams or Danny Hansford or the sensational murder case that captivated the city” (384). As a result, Berendt had a topic for his book fall right into his hands. He wanted to share this life changing event for the south with others while also preserving Savannah’s history. Berendt understood that Savannah was a “self-imposed estrangement from the outside world” (384), however, he was not letting this story be forgotten. This book started out just informing the world on the residents of Savannah, but it turned out to inform the world on how the south preserves only certain parts of

Major Settings. Fictional area named Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.The story’s action happen among the city of Jefferson and the house of the Burdens. It is 36 hours of difference.

In Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss gives life to The Four Corners of Civilization through his storytelling. Storytelling gives the author an opportunity to show their experiences and reflect their beliefs within the world they are creating. During the time this book was being written, there was the Iraq and Afghanistan War taking place which had been sending many soldiers back home with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Rothfuss parallels this disorder within his book through the main character, Kvothe, when he experiences trauma and he shows how Kvothe copes with the persisting trauma through grief theory, “four doors of the mind” (135) . His four doors of the mind is similar to the Kubler-Ross Model, which is widely accepted by practitioners, but challenges it by believing the mind copes with pain through the central idea of numbing. However, this mindset of categorizing emotions experienced within grief can be destructive behavior towards any griever rather than helping them cope; stages of post-loss grief do not exist.

The text type of To Kill a Mockingbird is a fiction novel which deals with the racism the author observed as a child in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee, who wrote her novel in a retrospective point of view. There were numerous aspects of historical, personal, cultural and social context in To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee was born on the 28th of April, 1926, in Monroeville Alabama. Monroeville was a close-knit community that has many similarities with Maycomb, which is the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee’s father was a prominent lawyer, whom she drew inspiration for the protagonists father, Atticus Finch. Among Lee’s childhood friends was Truman Capote, from whom she drew inspiration to the character Dill. These personal details help portray Harper Lee’s own childhood home, where racism and segregation was highly evident. Another example of context which helped shape To Kill a Mockingbird were the events that occurred during Harper Lee’s childhood. In 1931, when Harper Lee was five years old, nine African-American men were accused of raping two white women near Scottsboro, Alabama. After a series of lengthy, highly publicised, and often bitter trials, five of the nine men were sentenced to long term imprisonment. Many prominent lawyers and various members of the general public saw the sentences as spurious and believed that it was motivated by racial prejudice.

The author uses the town as a symbol of the new South by utilizing the historical context, the overall thematic elements as well as the characterization of the protagonist.