To Kill A Mockingbird Summary To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee in 1960. It follows Jean Louise ‘Scout’ Flinch. Her father, Atticus, is a lawyer, who was at the time, investigating a sexual abuse case. The case revolved around an African-American male who allegedly date raped a caucasian woman. Scout’s father doesn’t want Scout to know much information about the case, due to her being only 6 years old. However, he can’t shield her from reality, despite her being
was so lucky to have escaped. Context: Research the time period in which the novel is set. Identify two facts that are relevant to the book. These can be social expectations, influential events, etc. For example, it is very relevant that To Kill a Mockingbird is set during the Great Depression and before the Civil Rights movement, as poverty and discrimination helped create the conflict between the Ewells and Tom Robinson. Fact 1: Throughout about a
In 'To Kill a Mockingbird' many morals about the themes in the novel are portrayed through different issues and events. The major themes are appearance vs. reality courage, maturity and prejudice. Each of these themes has an event in the novel that help the reader understand its message. Courage is shown by different characters in varying ways throughout the novel. These characters are Jem, Boo Radley, Mrs. Dubose and Atticus. Jem shows a small amount of courage when Atticus decides to face a lynch
Cristian Gauna December 18, 2017 Language Arts 11 To Kill a Mockingbird Summary To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird starts off with Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, the narrator telling a story about how a few years ago her brother Jem broke his arm. There was no real story on how the accident really happened but there are stories on how it started. They blamed the whole accident on their ancestor, Simon Finch for moving to Alabama in the first place.Atticus, Jeans’ father went to Montgomery to
To Kill a Mockingbird: Crit 1, 3 & 4. Answer in full sentences and provide evidence from the text to support your answers. Evidence includes explanation and quotes. When you are quoting put the page number next to the quote. Eg ( p 28) Chapter 22: Although Atticus did not want his children in court, he defends Jem 's right to know what has happened. Explain, in your own words, Atticus ' reasons for this. (Look at the speech beginning, “This is their home, sister”.) p 231. Atticus feels that
Jack Scott Mrs.Olsen Pre AP English III-8 29th April 2016 To Kill a Mockingbird Chapters 1-11 Retest assignment The novel of TKAM takes various readers across the world into the many places of human life behavior that is compelling to the individuals containing dramatic experiences of kindness,love,passion,and cruelty, all in which is present throughout the book. The reasons for exploration in the novel’s larger questions takes place within the own perspectives of the children in which
Anna Bolger Mr. Connell English 1 8/18/201 Summer assignment 1. To Kill a Mockingbird took place in the nineteen thirties during the great depression. It was in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama. The author used this setting because most of the Midwest was desperate and racism affected the lives of about everyone. This was not however the only setting the story could take place in. For instance the story could’ve taken place around the George Zimmerman trial in modern trials. 2. The chief conflicts
The setting of To Kill a Mockingbird is in Maycomb County, which is a unrealistic district in Southern Alabama. The years are in the early 1930s, the time of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were a widespread in the U.S. The town of Maycomb is pretty sloppy because streets are not paved and got turned into red slop ( red mud). The people in the town are really nice and had a bunch of old ladies baking delicious cakes and town sheriffs saying folsky things. The courthouse is
Ryan Saunderson Mr. Chishty Eng/LA 9 12 February 2017 To Kill A Mockingbird Questions 1 Describe each of the following members of the Finch family: (a) Atticus, (b) Scout, (c) Jem, (d) Calpurnia. Atticus- Scout and Jem’s father. Atticus is a widowed lawyer in Maycomb County that comes from a family that has always lived in the area. Atticus seems to be a very progressive person, has a dry sense of humor. Scout- Jean Louise Finch, or “Scout”, is very intelligent as she knows how to read and write
The story of To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, during the 1930’s. It is written from the perspective of a little girl named Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout. The story tells about how Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill, spend their days in the small town. It talks about the different types of activities they do to keep themselves entertained, and how it was like to live in that time. Things were much different for those kids. Since there was no electricity, they