Images In To Kill A Mockingbird

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, injustice is a main theme that is reflected towards many characters. To Kill a Mockingbird, is a novel written by Harper Lee and published in the nineteen-sixties. Many characters in the story are treated unfairly in society due to racial or prejudicial attitudes. Overall these characters are innocent victims of injustice. Atticus, Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson are considered to be mockingbirds in the novel. A mockingbird was defined as a bird that did nothing wrong, but sang beautiful music for us to hear. These characters did nothing wrong and were treated unfairly in their town. In this different society, there are many factors that have had an influence on people’s perceptions towards others.

Harper Lee creates an image that purposefully develops and affirms her theme. She has a lynch mob full of Bourbons coming toward a jail in the middle of the night. Outside of the jail, Atticus sits with a light shining down on him, contrasting the ominous darkness. By having a single light shine on Atticus, she is able to symbolize good and evil. Atticus, representing good, is trying to protect Tom Robinson from the Bourbons, representing evil. When seeing this, Scout joins Atticus under the light in attempt to restore the peace. She calls out to a specific person in the mob, Mr. Cunningham. When someone is in the middle of a lynch mob, they often lose their identity and do things they normally would not do. Eventually, Mr. Cunningham recognizes

Hatred has been around for many years in the hearts of man. For example, even Cane and Able had hatred against each other. But hatred had spread to other people for several reasons, for jealousy, racism and even for being different. Harper Lee expressed much hatred in To Kill a Mockingbird. The era of the 1930’s in the Deep South was where the novel took place. Maycomb County, Alabama was a place of white supremacy. Scout witnessed the problems of racism and hatred of the Maycomb people. In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee uses Scout’s perspective and Atticus’s experience to express the true hatred and discrimination in a racist community.

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are a variety of different challenges faced in the 1960s, but with a twist. Instead of being narrated by an adult, it is narrated from the viewpoint of a child. One of the hardest problems the child, Scout Finch, faces is being surrounded by prejudice citizens that live in her town. She can’t quite understand why the people aren’t as accepting as her and the entire Finch family is. The same problem of prejudice is shown during the time of Hitler’s dictatorship as well. The mass amount of death of the Jews at that time all comes back to one problem, prejudice.

In the story “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the main character Scout realizes the town she lives in is full of bias and prejudice toward negros. Scout, the only daughter of lawyer Atticus Finch, is faced with the activism that follows this prejudice when her father decides to defend a negro, Tom Robinson, in the court of law. She is constantly harassed and tormented by the residence of their small town, Maycom. What Lee is trying to show through these events is that people are always going to have prejudices, and sometimes these prejudices come from the people you least expect it form. In the story, neighbors, friends, and family all show their prejudices about the defendant Tom Robinson to Scout, who finally realize the world isn’t perfect but is, in fact, full of flaws and prejudices.

Many people were prejudice in the South in the Early 1950s. African Americans were treated poorly due to their race. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, people were too prejudice to believe the truth about a trial with a black man. The two children learned numerous lessons from Atticus, their father, and from the trial of Tom Robinson.

The act of prejudice is one that everyone experiences. Whether it be, a person who is distributing hate, or a person who is receiving hate, everyone has contact with it. Although it is present all over the globe, it is prominent in the United States. Both in the present and the past, endless acts of discrimination have taken place and left a monumental impact on the country. The effect that it leaves can be seen in the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. In this story, sexism, racism, and isolation, are demonstrated in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930’s. As the story progresses, Lee compares these concepts to one another and uses them to make a statement about the problematic nature in America.

Imagine having your life on the line because someone thinks you have committed a crime you did not commit. During the 1930s colored people were put down and were inferior to whites. Everyone was trying to find a place in society but it was made especially hard for the African Americans in this time. They were pushed to the bottom of everything and treated like nothing. In Harper Lee's very impactful book To Kill a Mockingbird, she illustrates what it was like for one black man to be pushed aside like he was nothing mainly because he was black. In her book she uses examples from real life examples from those times like: the Jim Crow laws, the effects of racism and the Scottsboro Trials.

Hate is widespread throughout the world and in time itself, but it doesn’t have to be. The popular fictional novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is a book that is beloved by many people around the world for the social perspective it had in a time where it wasn’t a popular view. The young protagonist Jean Louise “Scout” Finch goes through many events like a court case and an assault during the night. These events eventually teach Scout, who is a child, a better perspective of the society in which many adults are stuck with harmful views. This novel contains a story that shows people to accept others even though they look different, behave differently, and if they are lower on the fictitious social hierarchy.

The imagery of the setting sun juxtaposed with a plow is meant to portray the dichotomy between nature and humanity. The quote describes the plow as a symbol that is superimposed on the setting sun, one that is “black against the molten red”. In this instant the natural element, the sun, and human made object, the plow, are show as tantamount to each other. What that represents is humanities reliance on nature, for instance, a plow would be useless without crops to harvest. All the parts of the plow are given description in this passage because of how nature encompasses all the various different aspects of life. For me this is apparent in the many Eagle Scout projects that are done by the boys in my troop. Many of these projects have been environmentally

Imagine being persecuted your entire life. Having to constantly respect someone even though they were rude to you. This is what many African-Americans had to go through during the 1930’s. Racism is a major aspect in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The main character, Scout, has to deal with this problem everyday. Bob Ewell, Mr. Cunningham, and other characters are very racist, and don’t approve of Atticus defending a “Negroe”. This causes Scout to be bullied in school and even attacked by Mr. Ewell. Also, characters such as Tom Robinson are negatively affected by racism in Maycomb. Tom is killed just because of his skin color. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s use of point-of-view, irony, and symbolism help to develop

The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee strongly relates to the given picture taken during the Civil Rights Movement because the novel shows that people can take a stand for what they believe in. This goes farther than just racial prejudice, it goes for anything whether its better education or women’s rights. One thing the image and Harper Lee’s novel show in common is progress in society.

A single mother raises multiple children alone, on an income just barely enough to feed her children. She has a newborn who can’t be left alone, but also has a full time job that must be done; otherwise her family will starve. On top of all this, society treats her differently than everyone else in her town. People give her dirty looks and treat her like garbage, but she must accept it and just keep quiet. If one of these days she decides to finally stand up for herself, she will be put in jail and that will be the end. This is just one example that shows the awful consequences of prejudice in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. In the book, a young black man named Tom Robinson is falsely accused of raping a nineteen year old girl. His defendant is Atticus Finch, a white man who is

To Kill A Mockingbird took place in the 1930’s, a time that was enormously charged with racial tension. One example of this is the existence of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Even though the KKK was in a time of decline in the 1930’s, it had been very prominent in the 1920’s and had still not completely died out. The KKK had rallies and

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the story is set in Maycomb County, Alabama in the 1930’s. A black male named Tom Robinson is accused of raping a white woman named Mayella Ewell. The book focus on the trial and other important events during this time period. One of the recurring themes in the book involves stepping into other people’s shoes. One of the main characters Atticus Finch explains to his kids that “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.” (Lee 39) During the book, two of the main characters Scout and Jem judge other characters such as Boo Radley and Mrs Dubose without knowing much about their background. Other people’s