To Kill a Mockingbird

“There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good,” states the main character in Catherynne M. Valente’s novel, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, when - after meeting both friends and foes - she realizes that there is both good and evil within one’s heart. A similar idea is presented by Harper Lee in her classic, To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee’s novel is set in the 1930s, in the small southern town of Maycomb where prejudice and rumors surrounding outcasts are commonplace and a fact of life. The plot follows two siblings, Scout and Jem, and their interactions with other Maycomb folk while growing up. The events center around Tom’s trial - where he, a man of color, is wrongly accused and convicted of raping a white woman. Throughout the story, the children meet many different people who they initially deem to be good or bad, but later realize they made hasty judgement Several of these characters - which, despite first appearances, are later revealed to be good - include a white woman who lives in poverty and does not understand common courtesy or friendship, a lady of society and class who has unjust prejudices against anyone below her, an outcast of society hidden away in a house rumored to be haunted by a malevolent phantom, and a mean, old lady trying to break free of an addiction to morphine. This idea, that good can even be found in people originally seen as bad or downright wicked, was an extremely optimistic view for Lee’s

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, was published in 1960 and is read by ninth graders all across the country because of its Pulitzer-Prize-winning writing. To Kill a Mockingbird parallels Harper Lee’s life in the sense that like the main character, her father was a lawyer and she had a best friend similar to the one of her main characters. She used this real life experience to tell the fictional story of Scout, a young girl living in the prejudiced community of Maycomb, Alabama. Scout and her brother, Jem, encounter a young boy, Dill, and quickly befriend him. They become interested in the suspicious story of Boo Radley and his family. However, the story’s plot is centered around her

To Kill a Mockingbird is a great novel. This book was all about the history and literature about someone's life. It was adapted into an Oscar-winning film in 1962.

America was once thought of as the greatest country in the world. Though since the dawn of our country’s time, we’ve been one of the biggest perpatrators of racial and social injustice. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird”, Lee puts America’s faults on display for everyone to see. There are so many people today who view this novel as old, outdated, and irrelevant to society today; but with issues like the wage gap between men and women, Donald Trump being a real candidate for the presidency, and the Black Lives Matter movement, this novel pertains to our society much more than society probably thinks, and America is far from the end of racial and social injustice.

“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt” (Max Lerner). As children begin the process of growing up they have to go difficult times and periods in order to become an adult. Even though the events may hurt, they still gain strength from those events and when then find that strength, then they begin to truly grow up. This lesson is learned throughout Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The story takes place in the 1930s in the small town Maycomb County, Alabama. The main character Scout starts the story out as a young girl who behaves as a tom-boy and she favors fighting rather than talking out her feelings. Scout’s father Atticus is trying to teach her how to mature, but it is a long process. Her older brother Jem and their best friend Dill contribute toward her staying immature by messing around with the neighbors, specifically the Radley’s. They become fascinated with the mysterious son, Arthur (Boo) Radley. But overtime, he becomes insignificant because of Atticus’s job and the stress that it puts on the family after he takes a difficult case. As a result of this case Scout matures faster than normal because of the difficult material. Throughout the novel, Scout becomes more mature causing her to strengthen her compassion toward others, which shows how through growing up, people experience situations that cause them to understand the appropriate way to act.

My movie I am watching is To Kill A Mockingbird. The movie starts out with intro to a Walter Cummgham meet up with Mr finch. The finch kids are talking to a Dill.then a man walks by who is apperntly crazy named boo radly. Then we meet a mrs. Doubose . then scout and jeb talk about there mom. a judge comes around to tell aboit tom robision and to be his lawer. Then Dill ,jem and Scout go into the courthouse.Mr Ewel shows the racism in town.then the kids break in to the radley house. Jem loses his pants and then comes back with the sound of a gun. the next day is the first day of school and Scout got a new dress. Scout gets in a fight with Walter jr.during dinner Walter and Atticus talks about his frist gun and how its a sin to kill a mockingbird because they make

To Kill a Mockingbird is a very unique story that involves many different events that is narrated by a young southern girl’s point of view. And although the dialect is unfamiliar, To Kill a Mockingbird did hold my interest until the very end. The parts that I found myself enjoying the most is whenever Atticus and Scout would read or have a conversation together. The relationship between Atticus and Scout is special, their relationship reminds of my brother, Ken. When I was younger, Ken would read to me at night and I thought it was sweet that Atticus and Scout read together as well. The parts of the book I didn’t really get hooked on was the parts about school. I actually thought it was quite boring. I think that is why I had a hard time in

The thinning fog laced between the leaves of the pecan tree. Morning dew dripped down onto the blades of grass that wove around the tree’s roots. It was a typical Maycomb morning. The street was dark and empty. The woman who always hummed old hymns in her flowers was silently sleeping. The woman who hurriedly walked across the street every morning to tell the latest gossip was snoring away in her bed. The man who kept his reading lamp on through the night was beginning to stir in his bed, and his children, who ran to him every afternoon, were tucked in warm beds dreaming about the day ahead. Rays of sunlight were beginning to splash onto the porch. It was time to go back inside. One last look around the street, and the door closed. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch asks her neighbor, Miss Maudie, if she thinks Boo Radley is crazy. “If he’s not, then he should be by now. The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets-” (Lee 46) This novel is told from the perspective of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, a young girl who begins to see the different sides of human nature. In the beginning of the novel, Scout becomes fascinated in a ghost. She had heard rumors and accounts of people seeing him. She heard he ate cats and tapped on windows in the night. The all allusive Boo Radley had become an infatuation. During the evolution of the novel, the attributes of Boo Radley are revealed in small acts of

In the 1950’s Harper Lee wrote a novel that would eventually change how people looked at literature. Her masterpiece, To Kill A Mockingbird, started much controversy. Some people looked at it as one of the best novels ever written, while others despised it calling it inappropriate and racist. The arguments dragged on for years and still continue to this day. This novel, which tells a story about a white man defending an African American and his children, goes beyond race. If you look deep enough into the background of the novel you can see a connection with childhood. Not only does it focus on how the children grow up, but it focuses on the connection the children have with the adults.

1. To Kill a Mockingbird is a very well-written novel and it has definitely made an impact on me. I am going to remember reading this novel when I get older, because it is the way that Harper Lee wrote it and which choices she made. Harper Lee made it so memorable that even my mom remembers reading it in High School. To Kill a Mockingbird has been talked about by some other famous people too, such as Oprah Winfrey. From Scout, Atticus, and Boo by Mary McDonagh Murphy, Oprah Winfrey talks about getting to have lunch with Harper Lee. During the lunch, Harper Lee says that she is like Boo Radley and does not like interviews. Overall, the lasting impact of To Kill a Mockingbird is a reminder of the United States’ past.

Growing up is an unforgettable stage of life that all people will experience. This transition is usually known well as the change from a child to an adult. Harper Lee’s historical fiction novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ illustrates this movement proficiently. The plotline of the small, quiet town of Maycomb suddenly growing intense and controversial shows readers how surrounding events shape the people who participate in them, especially the young. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ follows multiple children who watch their town grow steadily coldhearted and gives imagery to these children shaping with the community. These children transform with the events that surround them; The children learn how to make their own opinions, feel sympathy and empathy for others, and to listen to a story before making a judgement. This novel has influenced readers for decades, convincing them that growing up is more than just a timeline, instead it is a chain of stories, lessons, and opportunities. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ teaches readers that growing up is one of the most essential points of life, and that a childhood memory will shape the adult they inevitably become.

To Kill a Mockingbird is basically a novel about growing up under remarkable circumstances in the 1930s in the Southern United States. The story covers a compass of three years, amid which the fundamental characters experience critical changes. Scout Finch lives with her sibling Jem and their dad Atticus in the invented town of Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is a little, affectionate town, and each family has its social station relying upon where they live, who their guardians are, and to what extent their precursors have lived in Maycomb.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was immediately successful, winning the Pulitzer Prize, and has become a classic of modern American literature. The plot and characters are loosely based on the author 's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as on an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old.

To Kill a Mockingbird: How a Story could be based on True Events in Everyday LifeDaisy GaskinsCoastal Pines Technical College Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama. Her father was a former newspaper editor and proprietor, who had served as a state senator and practiced as a lawyer in Monroeville. Also Finch was known as the maiden name of Lee’s mother. With that being said Harper Lee became a writer like her father, but she became a American writer, famous for her race relations novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. The book became an international bestseller and was adapted into screen in 1962. Lee was 34 when the work was published. To Kill a Mockingbird was also known as Harper Lee’s first novel.Harper Lee has always claimed that her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" was not about her life. However, there are a humongous number of similarities to Lee 's life and the life of Scout and Atticus Finch. Atticus and Lee 's father was both known as southern lawyers. Atticus Finch, a lawyer and a father, defends a black man, Tom Robinson, who is accused of raping a poor white girl, Mayella Ewell (Lee, 1960 Pg.86). As the story provided you with details on how the childhood friends Lee and Scout was very much alike in their tom boy ways. Many believed that Lee’s inspiration was influenced just how any other author was, for example, she used a lot of her personal life experiences. In addition, Lee wanted to speak about the civil rights

To Kill A Mockingbird reflected the contentious race relations of the 1930’s-1960’s, and sparked nationwide examination of racism. There are countless court cases that closely resemble the trial that took place in the novel, such as the Scottsboro Trials. The book was published right before the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement. In the years after the book’s publication, the Freedom Riders made their famous trip across the South, and the March on Washington took place two years afterward. This book was generally received positively. According to The Encyclopedia of Alabama, in 1991, The Library of Congress asked 5,000 people to choose a book that had made the biggest difference in their life; To Kill a