The Analysis of the Extract from the Novel “to Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee.

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, all the literary features are established making this novel very worthy to read. This excerpt is from chapter three of the novel. It is the evening after Scout’s first day of school, and Scout seeks for help from Calpurnia, and Atticus. Scout questions the need to return back to school to Atticus, as she does not accept Miss.Caroline’s perspective on Scout having to stop reading at home.With the use of imagery and the characterization of Atticus, this excerpt proves that family with always educate you, and spoil you with

Cholbi starts the essay by discussing racial discrimination in the court of law and how some forms of discrimination are present before the defendant enters the courtroom. The author moves on to explain how discrimination causes individuals to develop expectations of the type of treatment they receive based on race. In addition, how committing a crime costs African Americans more than White Americans. Cholbi’s first point for a moratorium is The Principle of legality and The Principle of Equal Status which states every individual be held responsible for breaking the law and that every individual receive equal treatment among the law. Cholbi moves on to the next point for a moratorium, which is the race of a victim influences the sentence as much as the race of the perpetrator. The essay also states African Americans should enjoy the Principle of Equal Protection. This states all citizens be given equal protection under each law and not protect any race more so than

Throughout researching information about Harper Lee, I’ve learned a great number of things including who she is and how she got her commencement in literature. According to Biography.com, Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama where she and her four older siblings grew up. Her dad was a lawyer, a member of the Alabama state legislature, and her mom suffered from a mental illness, so she seldomly left the house. While

Jem and Scout, throughout “To Kill A Mockingbird,” learn to consider things from other people’s perspectives. Atticus, Jem and Scout’s father, says “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb into his skin and walk around in” (Lee 39). They learn this through experiences with their neighbor Boo Radley as they mature beyond their years. At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout make fun of Boo and assume that all of the rumors going around about him are true. However, later on in the story the children grow an admiration for Boo and learn to understand him. As they matured, Jem and Scout naturally learned many life lessons of appreciation, respect, and courage

Harper Lee is best known for writing the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel takes place during the depression in Alabama with the main character, Scout, viewing her lawyer father, Atticus, defending a wrongly accused black man of rape. The reader gets to understand Scout’s childhood view of this controversial situation. Scout’s character in to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is really the author’s own life playing out in the novel, which is most likely why this novel is thought to be one of the best American Novels of the 20th century.

“How would it feel to be convicted for a crime that wasn’t committed just because of skin color?” This is what exactly happens in Harper Lee’s book “To Kill A Mockingbird.” Tom Robinson was charged guilty for rape and assault of Mayella Ewell. Atticus Finch went against Mr.Gilmer to defend Tom’s innocence. It was almost impossible to convince a white jury’s opinion towards Tom because of his color. Both Atticus and Mr.Gilmer both used Logos, Ethos and Pathos, rhetorical concepts in their arguments.Even though Mr.Gilmer had won the case, Atticus’s was more effective in terms of strengths and weaknesses shown.

As a reader, it is important to be aware of the impact of the narrative voice in a text. Discuss in relation to the narrative voice in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’.

Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” is set in a small Southern United States community called Maycomb during the Great Depression era. The whole book primarily revolves around segregation and racism and how it relates to Maycomb’s history. It eventually leads to the trial of Tom Robinson where he is accused of beating up and raping Mayella Ewell. Even though it was clear that Tom Robinson did not do anything wrong he was convicted by an all white jury simply because he was black. The trial of Tom Robinson and its verdict shows an example of how segregation in the court system prevents fair trials from occurring.

If Atticus or Mrs. Maudie narrated the book it would have less appeal to young adults and children. The childish playing and adventure telling would not play a role in the book. The Radley place would be less magical than Scout sees it as being. This would cause the story to be more informative and detailed with lots of confusing vocabulary words. The average reader does not want that, they want an adventure or a reminder of their past. Scout gives us that with her view of the world. What makes the story even better is the fact that Harper Lee wrote a book about prejudice in a way that makes it feel like a new topic. This is shown when Scout sees Jem and says that “ I peeked at Jem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each “guilty” was a separate stab between them”(211). The court case and Jem’s reaction to it makes the reader believe in the good of society. When Tom is declared guilty the reader is surprised and almost as sad as the children are in the

Alexander provides an example in the book of a young single mother who is arrested with a group during a sweep. While being held, she has no one to care for her children, and she is not working. After several weeks she pleads guilty simply because waiting for justice to be served has meant a great deal of difficulty for her children, who are being kept in foster care. For the others in the group that were arrested, they are eventually found to be innocent of any wrongdoing. In the meantime, the young woman has become, at least on paper, a convict, and can no longer remain in federal public housing. The problem with justice is not a simple case of higher crime rates or criminality, it is how the criminal justice system interacts with factors in the community to create outcomes that are definitely not just. This seems like a subtle form of discrimination until the scale is understood. This systematic challenge to the black community impacts equality and equity, as criminal incarceration reduces access to economic opportunities and social mobility (Hagan and Foster, 259). Criminalization of black Americans results in the same outcomes as Jim Crow laws, in that black Americans are segregated and left without the power to vote or control their own lives. The discriminatory effects are also broader than just the criminal justice system. Social justice cannot be achieved while there are significant health disparities between black and non-black Americans which goes further than genetic and lifestyle issues (Boulware, 358). Black Americans are more likely to be betrayed by institutions such as health care, and this is reflected in high levels of distrust of authorities that, in addition to law enforcement, include nurses, physicians, school principals and

Written in the 1960’s and set in the 1930’s, the text is removed from its immediate context as it portrays the defence of a black man,

The main issue in the article is racial discrimination in providing judgments on cases between the blacks and their white counterparts. The racial discrimination is coupled with racial stigmatization where the blacks are regarded to be violent and gangsters. The judge uses this to humanize the killer while applying stigmatization to dehumanize the African-American girl.

Imagine a place where the verdict of a rape trial stems from racial prejudice rather than the proper evaluation of proven evidence. This is Maycomb, Alabama, the strange, Southern town where Scout and Jem Finch grow up during the 1930s in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. In short, the novel travels a thin line between a light-hearted narrative of the siblings’ childhood with their single father, a defense attorney named Atticus Finch, and the injustices that arise within their close-knit community. The complexities include extreme racism, a peculiar social hierarchy, and general misunderstandings of certain people within the small town. These are all seen as “Maycomb ways”, almost as if they are considered facts. Through her writing, Lee conveys an important message that an essential part of a child’s education often takes place in a home or community rather than a classroom by utilizing the characters, Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson, a black man accused of rape whom Atticus is defending.

Almost every member of the black community in Maycomb County is admirable in their personalities and innocent in their nature, and this generalisation makes the crimes against the black community all the worse. Tom Robinson, a man discriminated and accused of a crime that he didn’t commit has come forth to the justice system. The color of his skin determines everything from his background too if he’s guilty or not. A black man’s life is unable to prove innocence because of his race. Poverty has affected many people back in the 1960’s but, if a black man or women were to experience this they would be put on the white

On April 28, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama, Nelle Harper Lee was born to Amasa Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee. Along with her siblings, Alice, Louise, and Edwin, Harper was educated in Monroeville Public Schools before going on to attend Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. After a year at Huntingdon, Lee decided to follow in the footsteps of her father and began studying law at the University of Alabama in 1945 [2]. She left there to study abroad at Oxford University, Wellington Court in England [4]. After returning to the United States, she continued her education at the University of Alabama. However, in 1950, six months prior to completing her law degree, Lee moved to New York hoping to begin