How Is Yessum's Allusion In To Kill A Mockingbird

The tension was raised betweeen the South and the North because the were talking bad about each other.

Scout begins to notice the change in Jem’s personality and feels offended because she doesn't quite understand. On page 153 the text reads, “Over night, it seemed, Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me: several times he went so far as to tell me what to do.” Jem gets older and begins a long path of puberty. This, Scout does not understand yet. Jem moving towards a more adult like personality upsets Scout. Jem’s loss of innocence is a change but also begins to creates a new daily understanding for both Jem and Scout.

Lee uses a rhetorical device, polysyndeton, to reinforce her tone towards Atticus. Throughout the novel, Lee has been affection and loving towards Atticus, through all the trials and tribulations that he has put her through. This final page reinforces the idea that Scout loves Atticus and does not blame him for the hard times that she has gone through. Scout still feels trust and safety in Atticus as she describes that “his voice was so deep and his knee was so snug that I slept” showing that she is still comfortable with him (Page 375-376). Readers understand that Scout has no true understanding of what happened over the last few months in her life, but as she tells this story looking back she understands and knows what Atticus did was right.

Pleasantville and To Kill a Mockingbird Intertextual Study Intertextuality is an important element in American director, Gary Ross’, 1998 comedy-drama postmodernist film, ‘Pleasantville’. Through the use of allusion, parody, pastiche, cinematography and character referencing or alluding to other works of fiction, intertextuality shapes the meaning of a text. Ross’ ideas about change and how to cope with it are conveyed using intertextuality, often in the form of textual and/or historical allusions. The classic 1960 novel, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, written by well-known American novelist Harper Lee is an allusion used by Ross to convey changes that were taking place in the relative time frame that the book and film were set.

Any good detective looks for clues or hints to solve a case. As readers, we act like detectives to put clues together and find out what really happened. Foreshadowing is similar to this because it gives us clues to see what will occur in a future event. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing very often to tell us what could possibly happen. In this book, two men dream to have their own piece of land together, but they can’t buy it because they don't have enough money. The two men set out find a job for money but along the way, many obstacles are thrown at them, and some of them they ca

The author uses Foreshadowing for a number of different reasons including giving background information, to show the character’s motivation, to build a mood and to get the reader’s predicting. One of the most important craft moves that the author uses throughout the book is foreshadowing. “The temporary rose tattoo on his left biceps showed below his sleeve, but the slight bulge of the handgun in his shoulder holster was barely noticeable under his shirt.”(page 3) In the beginning of the book, by using foreshadowing the author achieves the goal of building a mood. When she does this, she makes it seem as if something bad is about to happen. It creates a very suspenseful and eerie mood. Another goal the author achieves by using foreshadowing in the beginning of the book is to provide the reader’s with background information. When the author talks about

Already from the first quote where Scout refers to Jem as “my brother” (Lee 3), the readers realize that the book is told in first person. The use of first person enhances and simplifies the creation of a bond between the reader and the character. Differently from third person, where feelings, thoughts and emotions are told by the author, in a good first-person viewpoint, the emotions should be felt without the need to describe them. One occasion in which the author does that is when Atticus, urged by his sister, decided to give to Jem and Scout the speech about them being Finch and that they “are not run-of-the-mill people” (Lee 177). The unusual speech coming from Atticus’ mouth startled Scout and sent her into a crisis state where his actions “stung [her]” (Lee 178) and her tears “could not stop” (Lee

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it." Page 5

Racism, Segregation and ill-treatment of coloured is major theme explored in the text by Harper Lee. This problem in the little town of Maycomb is just a tiny reflection in the corner of the mirror, of America at the time. And even the world, with references to Nazi Russia in the novel also bringing to light segregation in other parts of the world. She comes right out to say that the world is a racist world, with this novel and she writes to show others what is happening and that it is actually not right. And she does so in a great way by highlighting one great injustice rather than the many and bringing to a realization how irrational and unfair the entire American Justice system was. But we also see a development in the white characters which a representative of the entire America in a sense (and the world) as thoughts and ideas change and people’s views about coloured people change, not abruptly but slow of course. The black characters in To Kill A Mockingbird contribute to the development of the white characters rather than appearing as individuals in their own right. Racism is learnt, and with this we can see that Racism can

Racism is evidence of prejudice in all aspects of Maycomb’s society. Racism was huge during this time. Racism is still a problem in this world today but it is much better than it used to be. People used to be much worse, for example, Tom pretty much lost the trial because he was a black person. A quote I have is, “Guilty… guilty… guilty… guilty... “ (Lee 215). This quote shows that they really had no doubt he was going to be proven guilty because he was black. If he was white he would have won the trial. Also to add on, there were no blacks on jury. Obviously there is racism there. Another example of racism in this book is, that during the trial, the blacks were not allowed to sit downstairs. They all had to sit upstairs and cram up there to watch the trial.

In the town of Maycomb, the black population is judged upon their skin color. For instance, when Mr. Gilmer is cross-examining Tom, and speaking to him without dignity. Mr. Gilmer says to Tom during his cross-examination “are you being impudent to me boy.”(225). Mr. Gilmer called a grown man boy, it was clear he showed no respect to Tom, who is black. Likewise, Calpurnia escorts Jem and Scout to the black church, and Calpurnia changes the way she talks. As Scout is observing Calpurnia talk, she says “why do you talk nigger talk?”(143). In Scout’s and Jem’s mind Calpurnia has never talked nigger talk; Scout is judging Calpurnia because she talks nigger talk. In Support of, Calpurnia introduces Jem and scout to her friend Lola, and Lola disapproves of the while children in a black church. Lola yells “you ain’t got no business bringin’ white chillum here- they got their church and we got our’n! (136).

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IRONY I think this is very ironic. The mob come to kill Tom Robinson Atticus says that he is sleeping, so the mob start to whisper instead of talking loud. If you are about to kill someone, are you really going to whisper and let them sleep? That's the ironic part. PLOT

The disturbance between the North and the South' is the reference to the civil war. The North and the South were divided because they were disagreeing on slavery, the North wanted to get rid of slavery and the south didn't. Simon is on the on the South side so this Allusion in the story explains why people in the South, especially Maycomb, mistreat colored

The story begins with this sentence, “When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.” I don’t really understand why this sentence is starting the story. All I know is that the narrator, Scout is having a flashback. Scout lives with her brother, Jem, her dad who is also a lawyer, Atticus, and their maid Calpurnia. The setting of the story is in the South Maycomb Alabama. Scout describes Maycomb as, “An old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. There was no hurry for there was nowhere to go nothing to buy and no money to buy it with.” Maycomb sounds like it was part of the Great Depression, a longest lasting econmic downturn of the United States. The way Scout described the town is exactly