To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee: A Literary Analysis

Scout, a character from To Kill A Mockingbird, grows up in the three years that is covered in the story. When the story starts out, Scout is innocent and her sense of good and bad seems uncomplicated. In the end, Scout’s world as she understood became more complex and she has lost her innocence. Prejudice, hatred, and violence became her questions as she could not make sense of them. Scout eventually, through the course of events, came to accept that the town of Maycomb, Alabama harbors evil, such as racism and prejudice. Just like Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, defended an African-American man who was found guilty, so did Harper Lee’s father, Amasa Coleman Lee. When Harper Lee was six years old, the Scottsboro Trial took place. She has seen racism going in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. Many innocent African-Americans of today face racism and even deaths for no reason by policemen.

Sometimes, the less mature mind is more persuasive than one that is more developed. The younger mind may not know everything about the world, however other minds of similar age are drawn to the other’s ideas. These thoughts compel the child more than the more complex thoughts of their elders. It is shown that friends are more influential than parents through the diction in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and a drowning in the Umpqua River in Oregon.

The book "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a story of life in an Alabama town in the 30's. The narrator, Jean Louise Finch, or Scout, is writing of a time when she was young, and the book is in part the record of a childhood, believed to be Harper Lee’s, the author of the book..

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

Yet Perry’s childhood bliss was taken from him, somehow creating his current disposition, the true purpose is the falling of unity from inside the people of Holcomb, therefore; pinning every person against another. A dark curtain that falls over the children, parents, farmhands, hunting regulars, and police officials. A curtain that keeps them apart from one another because they are lost in the infinite blackness that surrounds them, an evil they let seep into their minds and imaginations.

In Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird , she recalls her experiences as a six-year-old child from an adult perspective. Scout describes the circumstances of her widowed father, Atticus, and his legal defense of Tom Robinson. Robinson was a local black man accused of raping a white woman, which arose many ethics between society. Throughout the three years surrounding the trial, Scout and Jem, witnessed the unjust consequences of prejudice and hate. Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird was published during the Civil Rights movement, and was used to implicate a Southern racist society by using rhetorical appeals and devices. Throughout the book , Harper Lee reveals her ideas concerning racial prejudice, faith in justice, and the goodness of

Racial discrimination, although not the main focus of To Kill a Mockingbird, plays a large role throughout the novel. Many characters in To Kill a Mockingbird are affected by racial discrimination, whether they are the cause or not. Throughout the novel, three characters stand out as being affected by racial discrimination the most. These characters are Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, Atticus Finch, and Tom Robinson.

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the central figure, Scout, faces conflicts as she tries to understand prejudice and how it leads to the death of Tom Robinson. The childhood innocence of growing up in Maycomb in which Scout is accustomed to is threatened by numerous incidents that expose the evil side of human nature. The guilty verdict in the trial of a black man accused of raping a white woman, Tom Robinson, is most notable. Scout’s father, Atticus, is defending Tom, and because Tom is black, Scout faces comments against her father and her family. “‘My folks said your daddy was a disgrace an’ that nigger oughta hang from the water-tank’” (Lee, 102) Scout encounters comments at school about her father. These comments make Scout question

When children grow up, they learn about moral lessons through experiences. Five years old kid usually are innocent and believe that everyone is fair and kind. However, they learn to distinguish between good and evil as they continue their journey of life. This is also true for the two young protagonists, Jem and Scout, in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In their small town called Maycomb, they learn various lessons from neighbors like Mrs. Dubose and Boo Radley, while observing through a trial where an innocent, black man named Tom Robinson gets convicted for a crime. With scenes like these, they learn the true definition of human nature and become less innocent through the wisdom of Mrs. Dubose, Boo Radley’s protection, and Tom Robinson’s fate.

“If there’s just one king of folks, why can’t they get along with each other?” (Lee 259). These words were spoken by Jem Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. In Harper Lee’s novel, Jem has a loss of innocence, a repeated theme in the book; this happens during the Tom Robinson trial, from Jem’s mood, and because of the character, Boo Radley.

Realistic Fiction authors tend to use techniques in their novels to prove a point or show a goal. Techniques are very helpful in writing rRealistic fFiction novels because it helps the reader understand what the author is trying to convey. In this novel with the title To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee used that to her own advantage;, the techniques in this book were very clear to the eye and it helped the reader more to understand the part that they were reading. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird the story is about a little girl named Scout who lives in the south in a little town called Maycomb, Alabama and during the Great Depression in the 1930s. and currently living in the great depression. During the story, Scout’s father Atticus receives a case involving a black man Tom Robinson (a black man) who is convicted of committing a crime to a white woman, and throughout the story many people are against Scout and her family because of her dad’s case and how he is defending a black man. Scout is also the narrator throughout the story and she tells else all of what happens in Maycomb those couple of years. The author Harper Lee uses many techniques, such as providing multiple points of view, showing symbolism, and revealing actions to prove or show a goal in her writing. In this book she used techniques such as providing multiple points of view, showing symbolism, and revealing actions throughout

Harper Lee’s best novel is none other than To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper. The novel was published in 1960 and is a straightforward novel about developing in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Lee attempts to present a sense of moral realities to the reader. Harper Lee through her novel has attempted to present certain moral truths to the reader. She uses the first person point of view to establish compassion to her audience. “The backdrop of the text attracts the reader’s attention to the racial discrimination that was characteristic of the 1930s America” (Dogra 1). The novel has many elements such as terror, corrosion, conundrum and many others. Lee’s best-selling novel, To Kill a Mockingbird establishes that ethics and education coexist and lead to a series of events in the novel.

In this novel, one of the most important and referred to themes is the transition of the characters from innocent adolescent to experienced young adult. When I was exploring the potentially great artistic works I could conjure up, I tried to expand my thoughts and create something that captured the idea of inculpability to understanding.

When I read To Kill a Mockingbird, I gained a deeper understanding of not just what was happening American society in the 1930s, but also what the atmosphere of racism and judgement truly felt like. The perspective of a young girl who was figuring out the meaning behind the way her town worked expressed the truth of American views in a brilliant way. To Kill a Mockingbird wonderfully revealed a wide variety of perspectives that helped the reader have empathy for all the characters, even the ones that they weren’t fond of. The author, Harper Lee, tied the main theme of the book together by repeatedly comparing different situations to killing a mockingbird. I really enjoyed reading To Kill a Mockingbird because it was an interesting and eloquent story.

Critical Review of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is set during the 1930's in a small, isolated