Harper Lee, The Sentry By Wilfred Owen, And Good Guys Dead By Ernest Hemingway Essay

Harper Lee is a famous author who wrote the award winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She grew up in the heart of Alabama and tied in many aspects of her southern childhood into the novel. There are historical and biological influences in the book To Kill a Mockingbird that reflect Lee’s life and the society around her during the 1930s.

Harper Lee is, also known, as Nelle was born in Alabama, Monroeville on April 28, 1926. She is the youngest of four. Her parents are Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Cunningham Finch Lee. Her father was a former newspaper editor, proprietor, and lawyer, serving on the state legislature 1926 to 1938. When Harper was a child she was a tomboy and talented reader. In 1944-1945, she joined an all-female Huntingdon college around Montgomery. Then in 1945- 1950, Lee practice at the University of Alabama for a degree in law. Moved to New York City employed as a reservation clerk for Eastern Air Lines and British Overseas Airways Corporation, beginning to write stories about the people in her hometown of Monroeville. (“Harper Lee”).

During the 1930’s depression, there was a great divide between black and white America. There were many communities and groups who had been exposed to the same treatment and persecution as the Negroes in To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee has used a small town setting, such as that in To Kill a Mockingbird, to illustrate America’s views on white supremacy and the inferiority of the black race. The author has illustrated view that are expressed world-wide through her characters in Maycomb county.

Harper Lee is well known for her great contributions towards modern society through her astounding book, To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel is read world-wide, in high schools and colleges because of its in-depth look at the social classes in the south during the 1930's. The book was influenced by society, in particular the social order of the south during her childhood. Lee grew up during this time of controversy which is why she writes so passionately about the topic. Lee wrote the novel to make a point about race while basing much of the plot off a trial from her young age, her own father, and the society she grew up in.

As the United States “progresses” in economic, educational and technological advancements we still are fighting for racial equality. With more than 50 years since the brown vs. board of education case there is still incidents like Ferguson, Baton Rouge, and Phiando Castile where many questions are still unanswered. However, Harper Lee dealt with these same problems in 1960 when she wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee created an emotionally confronting story. Lee writes through the eyes of “Scout” a lawyer’s daughter in a small sleepy town of Maycomb in Alabama during the great depression. Throughout the book “Scout” learns coming of age lessons from Atticus and her own experiences. But when Atticus takes on a case defending a black man (Tom Robinson) convicted for rapping a white woman (Mayella Ewell) and is found guilty. “Scout” her brother Jem begin to understand the effects of the prejudices in society. Therefore, Lee applies the literary concepts of diction and tone to revel the truth that prejudices in society negatively affect the way people treat each other in To Kill a Mocking Bird.

In the riveting coming-of-age novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee projects the idea of acceptance of all people, through the eyes of a child. Harper Lee combats the prejudice of social standing when she proves that some of the poorest people have the best of character traits. While racism of African Americans is first and foremost in this novel, the acceptance of white people into the African American community shows racism can be beaten from both point of views. Finally, the disabilities that Arthur Radley portrays, is forgotten, when his actions help him soar above the bigotry of the people of Maycomb County. The most obvious topic is the overt racism based on a person's skin color, however, Harper Lee takes us beneath the skin to show that discrimination occurs in other ways.

Williams 1* Jordan Williams Dr. Donald Florence English 511 23 February 2015 Atticus Finch and the White Savior Trope Harper Lee’s classic bildungsroman novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a staple in many high school curricula. It is an excellent and informative read, but not for the reasons most White educators believe. This story was ultimately written by, for, and about White people.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, which was published in 1960, Harper Lee analyzes the theme of isolation and its causes through the story’s characters. Harper Lee was one of the most famous authors in the south and was known to be isolated herself. She grew up in a small town in Alabama called Monroeville, where her novel was based from. Harper Lee spent almost three years working and changing her story’s theme; which her book was listed under best-seller lists and it won Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Her book became really popular and it sold over thirty-million copies in forty different languages (www.neabigread.org 1).

Ella Wright was “the single biggest factor that shaped his life,” the life of Richard Wright that is. Ella Wright was an extremely strict and firm mother. She was left by her husband (Richard father) to raise Richard and his little brother all alone, but just like other women who husband leave them for another women, Ella Wright slowly started to lose herself. Not only did the abandonment from Richard father effect Mrs. Wright but it also took an extreme toll on young Richard though he do not speak on the situation too much. With the life long illness that Ella Wright had she became extremely needy. The care from her own mother and kids was greatly needed. Though many view Mrs. Wright as an extremely harsh mother, it is the lack of emotional support and tough love that shaped Richard into the extremely successful man and outstanding writer he became. In this paper one will discuss the relationship between Mrs. Wright and Richard and how the treatment from Richard’s very own mother affected his life as a black man and writer.

Throughout history, there has been an overarching theme that writers write about. Great authors write about what they know. They write about what they see. They write about what they hear. They write about personal experiences and incorporate details from their lives into their literature. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a classical work that reflects the Civil Rights and Women’s Movement of the 1950’s-1960’s through her depiction of the relationship between blacks and whites and her portrayal of female characters.

The introductory line of Harriet Jacob’s preface to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, “Reader, be assured this narrative is no fiction”, is short yet serving (Jacobs 224). Although brief in its nature, this statement manages to encompass two major aspects that characterize African-American literature: audience and truth. In all writing, understanding the target audience and how to arrange an argument or essay to appeal to that specific crowd is paramount. However, it is especially important for African-American authors, who typically need to expose injustices or call for social change in their works. In particular, two African-American authors who understood their audience and how to manipulate that understanding were Charles W. Chesnutt and Marcus Garvey. Although they were born only twenty-nine years apart, Chesnutt and Garvey technically wrote for different time periods. While Chesnutt’s work is associated with “Literature of the Reconstruction”, Garvey was grouped with authors and activists from the Harlem Renaissance (Gates and Smith 580 ). The separation of their literary epochs drove Chesnutt and Garvey to write for contradistinctive audiences that demanded unique written techniques and rhetorical strategies, but that both asked for utmost honesty.

O Henry, Mark Twain, and John Steinbeck’s writing styles have stood the test of time because no other author can give the style they have given. Thus, they are still beloved in this day and age. Their perspectives in the world we live in has been life changing for many individuals. Through these authors, and many other classic authors, many people around the world have gained a deeper understanding of society. Perhaps if these authors never wrote books, our lives would be much different than they are

There are about 129,864,880 books in the entire world. Each, has in one way or another, captured the minds, hearts and souls of their readers. They have ripped us from our everyday lives and thrown us into mysterious worlds of time-telling rabbits or small tired old towns in Alabama, which will make us question the difference between innocence and evil, injustice, prejudices and humanity itself. This is exactly what happens when one is turning the pages of Harper Lee´s bestseller ´´To Kill a Mockingbird``, the only difference is that once you have read the last page, you do not stop thinking about these problems. Instead, one comes to find that even though the book may already be 60 years old, the dilemmas of today´s society are still the same. How, has the timeless phenomenon that is ´´To Kill a Mockingbird`´ somehow created a link between the life in the small Alabaman town in the 1930´s and the 21st century?

War Poetry - The soldier by Rupert Brooke and Dulce et decorum est by Wilfred Owen

When one hears about William Faulkner, he or she should consider not just a usual American writer. He is a typical writer, not only known as a typical southern writer, but also as a legend all through the world. He includes mixed race several divorced mothers as well as unwedded women in his novels. Faulkner’s