To Kill A Mockingbird-Personal Narrative

“Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I’m walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close as to perfection as it gets” (J. Courtney Sullivan). In 1960, Harper Lee published the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It can be rather hard for an author to develop a well built fictional character. Although, Harper Lee does a marvelous job on creating characters. For instance, Scout is a little girl full of energy and is more of a tomboy than most girls. She’s always around her older brother Jem who is respectful, kind, and a gentleman like their father Atticus. Harper Lee did a

Throughout most novels, characters encounter obstacles or events that once faced change their lives for the better or worse. In this book, that obstacle is racism. This is evident in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird when ... ____________________. Due to... ____________________. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Dolphus Raymond, Tom Robinson and Bob Ewell each encounter racism in different ways; however, they all suffer as a result.

I grew up in a home where my parents taught us to serve our country, community and those around us. They taught me through example, my father was a scout leader when I was a child. He often took me camping and to merit badge Pow Wow’s. As a boy I began to dream about becoming a boy scout. When I became old enough I joined the cub scouts. While in Cub scouts I learned about being part of the pack, about working together to accomplish large projects, to work together to accomplish a larger goal. Then when I was older I was able to join the boy scouts they taught me about being a citizen in the community, about being a good neighbor. They taught me about doing a good turn daily, and being prepared. When I was 13, I became a life scout. Being a life scout is not anything special, other than I was able to start working on my eagle project.

“Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffering on a Summer’s day. . .”p.6

Harper Lee once wrote, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” In Harper Lee’s book, To Kill A Mockingbird, she develops a definition of a lady or gentlemen. According to Harper Lee a lady or gentlemen is someone who is empathetic, and someone who doesn’t judge what people do when they don’t know the full story. In the book, Atticus is trying to teach his two children lessons like, walking in someone else’s shoes helps understand their perspective, and, don’t take advantage of things that are innocent. From these lessons the kids will grow up to become true ladies and gentlemen.

“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 it”. Discuss this quote from Atticus in relation to 3 characters from the novel.

There are many different types of symbols in our world today; in English literature as well as all around us on a day-to-day basis. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird we follow a little girl, Scout, as she faces the truth about the world and its injustice. The central and most obvious symbol of this novel, as well as the title of the book, is the mockingbird. It represents the innocence and injustice in this story, represented by Tom Robinson and the events surrounding the trial, but also sets the theme of racial prejudice.

The valuable lessons that Atticus teaches and demonstrates to his children (Jem and Scout) in the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird are very crucial. Atticus teaches Jem and Scout to put themselves into other people’s skin before they pre-judge a person. Atticus also teaches the two children compassion and forgiveness. The children learn an important lesson not to kill a mocking bird during the novel from Atticus. Throughout the novel several incidents happen where Atticus teaches Scout and Jem these very valuable lessons.

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird a major theme is the loss of innocence. Whether from emotional abuse, racial prejudice or learning, Boo, Tom, and Scout all lose their innocence in one sense or another. The prejudice that each character endures leads to their loss. Through the responses of Boo, Tom, and Scout, Harper Lee shows how each character responded differently to their loss of innocence.

A Bildungsroman is a literary genre that focuses on the development, psychologically and morally, of the protagonist from childhood to adulthood, also known as coming of age. The character development plays an extremely important role in the novel. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, each of the main characters change during the events of the story. The children, Scout and Jem, change immensely compared to the other characters. Due to Jem’s puzzling personality and character, Scout showed the most change between the two. Scout transforms from a small, innocent little girl to a mature and experienced young woman.

Not every person's perspective in a society is the same. Our perspectives differ due to how we were raised and our personal beliefs. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee bases the story from a six year old girl's perspective. We refer to this character as Jean Louise Finch, or more commonly known, Scout. Her perspective and beliefs are most evident when she gets into a fight with a farm boy named Walter Cunningham, when she and her twelve year old brother Jem go protect their dad Atticus, a lawyer, at the County Jail and when she protects a neighbour across the street from a distressing situation.

“It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Throughout To Kill A Mockingbird, there is symbolism behind the title. Mockingbirds are portrayed as harmless and innocent which relates to several characters in the passage. Although there are many characters that can convey this symbolism, Boo Radley and Tom Robinson best fit the metaphor because they are the most misjudged characters throughout the novel, they have not shown or caused any harm to the people of Maycomb.

Never criticise a woman's choice of attire, especially her shoes, no matter how unsuitable to the conditions, or inappropriate to the situation they are. Duane immediately realised his mistake, and attempted to atone for his error of judgement by holding up his hand. However, the effort to apologise wasn't driven by altruism - Duke had quickly realised that he could hardly expect Karmen to listen to his clothing advice on their planned shopping expedition if she were still seething at the comment about her heels, - unlike the gift of his treasured Pork Pie hat, which was.

I don’t know how to start this, so, um, I’m just gonna dive right in and start from the very beginning. It started about three weeks before my senior year of high school, at first it was like quick snapshots of her features. I don’t remember what came first, it all happened so quickly, but I do remember her lips and her eyes. Her lips were full and pillowy, So plump, so beautiful, so perfect yet rarely complimented. Her eyes changed color they were a soft gray at first, slowly fading into a soft baby blue, gradually getting darker until they were a deep ocean blue, them they were green, a green that brings hope and life no matter what has happened, and before I knew it her eyes were a glimmering color of emerald. Before I could even comprehend what was happening her face was revealed, she is the definition of perfection. Than I woke up, and let me tell you, I was NOT a happy camper that day.

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