To Kill A Mockingbird Analysis

Author uses Atticus teach these lessons through his wise words. Atticus teaches these lessons to not only the audience, but Jem and Scout too. Some of the main things he teaches his kids about are understanding people, using the mind instead of the body, the cruel reality of stereotypes, and true

“It's right hard to say," she said. "Suppose you and Scout talked colored-folks' talk at home it'd be out of place, wouldn't it? Now what if I talked white-folks' talk at church, and with my neighbors? They'd think I was puttin' on airs to beat Moses, "But Cal, you know better," I said. “It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike—in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates 'em. You're not gonna change

Childhood innocence tends to fade as one starts to experience different aspects of life. However, maturity comes earlier for some than others as they undergo different experiences. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem Finch sees a time in his life that shapes his progression from a child to a young man. Jem, a main character in this book, comes to many realizations that move him from one point to the next. Not knowing much, he encounters eye opening situations that force him to lose his childlike manner and become someone serious and mature. Jem’s loss of innocence is an inevitable part of his journey to maturity.

It is shocking how fast the effects of life can change the way a person views the world. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee tells the story of the lives of two children, Jem and Scout, and their family during the depression. Lee gives many insights to a family during the Great Depression. Lee addresses real problems that happened in the 1930’s. The narrator, Scout, tells the story of how her brother broke her arm and the events that led up to it; the story spans out over two years. Throughout the course of the novel a young

Harper Lee’s renowned book To Kill a Mockingbird is highly praised for the lessons it teaches, it’s persuasive humor and how it tells a story of growth. It tells the story of Scout Finch as she learns and and grows in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. Scout has a brother, Jem, who leads scout on adventures and through trials as they are taught about racism, empathy and courage. Scout's perspective allows a look into how growing up in her circumstances has affected her personally. (need another sentence here to lead to thesis) Harper Lee uses the characterization of Jem to show an alternate insight to growing up through the way he strays from being moral, how he tries to be more independent, and by when he reaches his breaking point.

“Courage doesn’t mean you don’t get afraid. Courage means you don’t let fear stop you,” stated Bethany Hamilton, an American professional surfer, who survived a shark attack, when she was only 13 years of age. This quote relates to the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, on account that plenty of people in the book had fear, but did not let it stop them from doing what they needed to do. A few of these courageous people were Mrs. Dubose, Atticus, and Boo Radley.

‘[Jem] How could they do it, how could they?’ ‘I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and it-seems that only children weep”’(Lee 213). It is clear Jem is upset because the morals he was raised up with and his prior beliefs were now being contradicted. Since Jemm is a kid people empathize with him and feel his pain.

He is a very wise father and teaches them many life lessons. Jem had gotten angry at one of the older neighbors, and ruined her bushes and flowers, she makes Jem read to her everyday to pay off his debt. Eventually she has him stop reading to her. She is a very sick lady and dies eventually. Her gift to Jem was a flower from the plant he ruined, her calls her a mean lady and Atticus says she was a great one. The life lesson leading to maturity is shown through this following quote. “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand ( Lee 112).” In the end of the novel Jem ends up getting attacked. They show that Scouts is getting older is when she escorts the neighbor home and states “I had never seen our neighborhood from this angle... As I made my way home, I felt very old... As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra (Lee 279).” This is showing that she feels more mature and is flourishing in her personal development.

Charles Lamb once said, “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.” The author of To Kill

How would you feel if you had done all you could to help someone that you felt sorry for, but they twisted the story and now you are sitting in court waiting to go to jail because no one will believe your side of the story? With this situation, an honest man’s innocence has been lost. As Scout grows up, she realizes there is more to the story than she is told. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is forced to believe other people’s perspectives due to living in the 1930’s. Through the loss of innocence of a respectable African American Tom Robinson, her brother Jem Finch, and the town hermit Boo Radley, Scout is able to understand the reality of what society is all about.

“Remember, it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird,” (Lee 119). In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, this is the quote that Atticus, one of the main characters, says to his kids. Atticus is a lawyer who takes on a tough case in his town, Maycomb. His kids are Scout, and Jem. Throughout the book, they grow and mature. They don’t mess around with their neighbor, Boo, as much as they used to. But, luckily because of him, they live to see the next day. In To Kill a Mockingbird, it shows that because of prejudice, innocent people can be harmed. This is shown through Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, and Jem.

There has always been an argument if people are naturally good, or naturally evil? The answer lies somewhere in the middle. The characters in “A Time to Kill” by John Grisham and “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee show this by taking action into their own hands. In the book “A Time to Kill,” Carl Lee Hailey, the father of Tonya Hailey; sought vengeance on Billy Ray Cobb and Pete Willard for raping his daughter. Throughout the book, it shows the experiences Carl Lee has while being on trial against the state of Mississippi. He was ultimately successful in winning the case. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Arthur "Boo" Radley is a mysterious man who lives across the street from the Finch family. Jean "Scout" Finch, her brother Jem,

Summer finally comes, and brings a shift in Scout’s idyllic childhood. Jem is now twelve: moody, inconsistent and difficult to live with. Scout doesn’t understand the abrupt changes in her older brother, and turns to Calpurnia for solace. Dill doesn’t come home to Maycomb for the summer, and Atticus is away serving in the state legislature for two weeks, causing further disappointment for Scout. One Sunday, Calpurnia decides to take the children with her to her own church, First Purchase. For the most part, the all black congregation welcomes the Finch Children warmly, except for a woman called Lula who is angry that white folk entered a place of solidity for Black people. Through Scout's eyes we can see that the church is in poor condition. The children notice that Calpurnia talks differently to ‘her people’, and they realize that the sermons they hear in Cal’s church are not much different than the ones they hear in their own. They also learn that most of the people in First Purchase cannot read, cannot afford hymnbooks, and thus sing their hymns by ‘lining’. Reverend Sykes explains to Scout that the church is collecting funds for Tom Robinson’s wife, who is having trouble finding a job and providing for her family because her husband was accused of raping an Ewell girl. Scout doesn’t know what rape is, and wonders why on earth the town would trust the word of an Ewell. Cal reveals a bit about her own history to Jem and Scout, who intrigued by the fact that Calpurnia lives a double life. Cal, Jem, and Scout go home to be greeted by an unexpected guest: Aunt Alexandria.

According to harsh baptists in Harper Lee’s, To Kill A Mockingbird, “women are a sin by definition”(Lee 50). In the 1930s, society deemed a woman's place to be in the house. Today, women have made strides in defining who they are for themselves. Over the years women have faced a great deal of oppression. Nonetheless, they have rebutted society's definition of women regarding their education, their appearance, their job, and their fight for equal rights. Women from the 1930s, the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, and women's lives in the present day are different as, women from the 1930s and the novel face more conflicts when it comes to their education and rights, while women's lives in the present day are less daunting in getting an education or defying the typical female role, they are also similar as they both face problems in the workplace and both struggle with society's views about them.

“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Lee, 103) To Kill a Mockingbird a coming-of-age novel written by Harper Lee is a story about two siblings Scout and Jem who live their everyday life and become obsessed with their never seen neighbor Arthut ‘Boo’ Radley. When eventually everyone is obsessed with Atticus, their highly respected father, defending Tom Robinson, a black man falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell. This great adaptation movie played by Gregory Peck (Atticus), Mary Badham (Scout), Phillip Aford (Jem), John Megna (Dill), Robert Duvall (Arthur ‘Boo’ Radly), Brock Peter (Tom Robinson), Collin Wilcox (Mayella Ewell) and James Anderson (Bob Ewell) is directed by Robert Mulligan as seen in the Full Cast & Crew section of IMDb. Mayella Ewell is played by Collin Wilcox and.The author’s description of characters, her style of writing and the theme illustrated in Harper Lee's Pulitzer prize-winning novel (Sweet), To Kill a Mockingbird come to life in the great screen adaptation of 1962.