Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell

Based on the first six chapter of the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, we can see that it moves at a rapid pace. It starts off as the beginning of summer and by the end of the sixth chapter an entire year has passed by. Throughout this year, we see Scout 's, Dill 's, and Jem 's adventures during the summers and Scout going to school for the first time. We also receive some additional background information on the mysterious Arthur "Boo" Radley.

In To Kill a Mockingbird by harper Lee, The story of a southern life in Maycomb during the mid-1930s you begin an exploration of human morality. Each character has morals on how to treat some one of the other race. Atticus and Bob Ewell are two characters with contrasting morals. Tom Robertson an African American male is court between both of them and is dependent the towns social morals in a court case.

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.

Thesis: The phrase of "killing a mockingbird" represents the iniquity to vitiate something good and relatively unmarred, as mockingbirds do nothing but sing beautiful songs; they are innocent and harmless. This motif can also be interpreted as a symbol of imitation, or "mocking" - the mockingbird is known for its ersatz of other birds ' songs. This mockingbird motif, the foremosttheme, is exemplified by the actions and words of three characters in "To Kill A Mockingbird" - Arthur (Boo) Radley, Tom Robinson and Jean-Louise (Scout) Finch.

The world has suffered a terrible calamity. Exactly what is never explicitly explained, but it is implied that apparently two countries with nuclear weapons finally decided to try them out and see what happened. The world is cold. The sun is blotted out from the sky. The plants are dying. The sky is gray and the surface of the Earth is covered by a constantly shifting gray ash. Within this world walks two human beings and they are a man and his son. This is very basic plotline of Cormac McCarthy 's book "The Road." McCarthy has garnered a lot of attention lately. His book "No Country for Old Men" was turned into a powerful and moving film that won a lot of shiny statues at last year 's Academy Awards. He is known for his very bleak view of the world, and for describing horrors and atrocities with a frankness and bluntness that often leaves readers stunned. His novel "Blood Meridian" is so relentlessly violent that many have had to put the book down just to give their minds a rest from the carnage. However, both "Blood Meridican" and "The Road" are being turned into Hollywood productions even now as I write this. McCarthy writes in short, direct sentences. He never used quotation marks and sometimes the words spoken by characters are not even separated from paragraphs that just describe the action. Reading his work is an active exercise and one that you have to brace yourself for. The most idyllic scene can suddenly turn horrific as the young man and his son turn one corner

As the sun had risen for yet another day of life, Hiroshima, Japan was attacked by the Americans with the usage of the first atomic bomb in human history. The results were devastating, ashes of all types of living and nonliving objects, a ruined city and thousands of injured victims. John Hersey, an American writer and journalist, took these alarming events and wrote a book, with the responsibility of remaining an unbiased narrator. Creating a grand controversy on whether or not, Hersey effectively pursued a flat style of writing throughout the creation of his Pulitzer Prize Winning book. Hersey, set up his novel in the perspective that the attack from the Americans to Japanese was an inhumane act. Throughout the development of this book, Hersey lost the title of a neutral narrator as he biased the hibakushas, atomic bomb survivors, demonstrating sympathy, favoritism and compassion through his writing.

The same cool air that flows through the sky, is the same as the rotten prejudiced air, in which, the people of Maycomb breathe every day. It’s an unnecessary sickness that spreads throughout the whole town. In Harper Lee’s novel of To Kill a Mockingbird, it symbolizes the many divisions and classifications used in Maycomb to differentiate different groups of people. Although, each individual is in fact different, the people of Maycomb are blinded to the fact that, “’there’s just one kind of folks. Folks’” (Lee 304). Scout understood the fact that people shouldn’t be judged based on divisions and classifications, and rather focused on people’s similarities. Scout’s mature way of understanding, le her see something, that most people in

One of the most controversial plays of its time is hands down, Inherit the Wind. The main debate throughout the play is the debate between science and religion. A bit of a background for those that are naive to the topic in this time period to follow. Small towns such as Hillsboro were very prone to streamlined views in every possible topic of extremities such as religion to minor topics relative to eateries, gossip, and small town politics. Lawrence and Lee do an exceptional job representing and setting the scene of this town by painting the history of the play’s main characters. They make a strong point about the lack of strayed opinion as everyone is primarily religious in views and science is taught according to the bible. In a sense it is wrong for one to have a mind or speak about views that clash with what has been widely accepted in Hillsboro.

“Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” ~ Atticus Finch. Atticus, a major character in Harper Lee 's classic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” says this after giving the children rifles. Atticus indicates they can shoot at any kind of bird besides the mockingbird, because unlike other birds who will eat peoples plants and ruin their gardens, the mockingbird will just sing. The mockingbird exemplifies one who is weak, or defenseless. To kill a mockingbird is equivalent to one who takes advantage of any who are weak. “To Kill a Mockingbird”, written by Harper Lee, is often considered a direct influence from her own life in 1936.Published July 11th, 1960, Lee was 30 years old. She died February 19, 2016 at 89 years old.

Why is the play Inherit the wind by Lawrence and Lee such a relatable piece of literature to people in today’s society? Simply because the author embedded relevant themes that are a big part of the world’s issues today both politically and religiously. Three themes revealed by the events and characters within the play are the battle between thinking both fundamentally and intellectually, the differences between rural and urban regions, and the isolations amongst man and society.

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.

This novel became one the best selling books of all time.This book has fascinated so many people. The piece of literature even made it to the big screen, raking in millions of dollars and movie awards. It all started November 8,1900, when Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta , Georgia to Mary Isabel Stephens and Eugene Muse Mitchell. Margaret heard many stories of the American Civil War and the Old South .(3) When Margaret was 25, she started writing a novel that would become one of the best selling books and movies of all time ("10 Things You Might Not Know About 'Gone With the Wind ..."). It would take Mitchell ten years to write her novel Gone With the Wind.("10

One trait of Scarlett that is exemplified for the duration of the entire novel is determination. Regardless of how much the odds seem to be stacked against her, she maintains her resolve. When Scarlett first hears of Ashley and Melanie’s engagement, she is astounded and incredulous as she had intended to have him for herself. Determined to win him over, she formulates plans ranging from telling him point-blank that she loves him to hoping that Melanie dies. Despite the unlikelihood of her success, she persists in chasing him throughout the novel. Before their engagement was announced publicly, Scarlett corners Ashley privately and, against all of her mother’s teachings, bluntly and forwardly spills her heart with three words, “I love you.” When that conversation proved fruitless, she wastes no time and devises another plan on the same day. In order to make Ashley repent his actions, Scarlett decides to marry Charles Hamilton. Even though Ashley stayed true to his word and never exemplified anger towards Scarlett, she still refuses to take no for an answer. After the war, Scarlett tries to persuade Ashley to run away with her, only to have her offer rejected yet another time. In spite of these setbacks, she remains determined and unrelenting. Furthermore, Scarlett’s will to survive and the arduous efforts on her part support that she is a determined character. After the gruesome trek from Atlanta to Tara, Scarlett visits the Wilkes in hope to find some victuals and

Nature is a source of inspiration for each poet from which they determine imagery, emphasizing its symbolic meaning and part as a powerful force in human life. Percy Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” and John Keats’ “To Autumn” are fixated on nature. Shelley addresses nature in majority of his poems climatically, according to his spontaneous and momentary response, while Keats turns to contemplation due to his personal suffering. Both poets are impacted by the seasonal process in nature which ushers them into the temperament of transition and aging. However, both of them differently perceive the same natural manifestations.