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    To Kill A Mockingbird

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    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. Today, I would like to talk about a quote by a star in the story. "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird.” - Atticus Finch, a small-town Southern lawyer and a single father of two. I like this quote because it carried a great deal of symbolic weight in the film. In fact, it relates to the world today too. In the story of innocents

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    To Kill a Mockingbird

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    Literary Analysis for To Kill a Mockingbird “There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads- they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s word, the white always wins. They’re ugly, but these are the facts of life.” ************ Along with the main theme of the story, racism, there are multiple other themes that are represented in the story. These include: the coexistence of good and evil, and importance of mortal education

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    lack today. Scout is young and innocent; she sees the world in extravagant gray, not exclusive black and white. Throughout To Kill A Mocking Bird, Scout obtains an insight of justice for innocent, hypocrisy, manners and understanding others. The Mockingbird is a symbol of innocence; they make music and they strive to never hurt others in any selfish way. Atticus and Scout were on the porch, minutes after the dispute with Mr. Tate, The argument consisted of who did the deed of stabbing Mr. Ewell. Atticus

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    To Kill A Mockingbird

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    Harper Lee's “To Kill a Mockingbird” explores key ideas exposing the human condition and the difficulties faced when one is forced to challenge their morality. “To Kill a Mockingbird” remains relevant in today's society as this novel effectively addresses preconceived issues of religion, racism and, the overriding theme of bigotry in our world, no matter the era in which we are living. Lee uses a variety of techniques to convey the social injustices and inequalities of the world in the 1930’s, whilst

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    To Kill a Mockingbird

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    Prejudice In the book To Kill a Mockingbird Atticus tells Jem and Scout to shoot at tins cans in the backyard. He goes on to say, “ Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mocking bird.” “(Lee 103)”Miss Maudie explains it to the kids and says, “ Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t do one thing but to sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” “(103)” In the story there are three

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    To Kill a Mockingbird

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    To Kill a Mockingbird Mockingbirds are birds that does one thing; Making music for us to enjoy and nothing else to harm us. In the remarkable novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the mockingbird is used as symbolism for real people. Including the human mockingbirds, the novel represents other pieces of the prejudice such as racism and hypocrisy. In the little town of Maycomb in its 1930¡¯s, the prejudice was an accepted concept for every individual and Atticus even called it a ¡®disease¡¯

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    To Kill A Mockingbird

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    The novel To Kill a Mockingbird was rather a very interesting book to me, which I personally liked the book overall. As I read the story, there were different themes like courage and integrity that I personally enjoyed as they unraveled . I noticed the courage that were in the young children, Jem, Dill, and Scout when they tried to get Boo Radley to get out of the Radley home and not only do you see that in the children. Scout has her courage and sticks up for her classmates and keeps her head high

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    a pet mockingbird named “Dick” (“Northern Facts”). The Northern Mockingbird has many distinctive characteristics. These characteristics include how the mockingbird prefers specific habitats, how their feeding habits is unusual, and how the nesting habits are unique. The mockingbird is very well known for its songs and imitation of other sounds. Mockingbirds are very territorial and defensive; mockingbirds are known to attack to protect their young and nesting sites. The Northern Mockingbird has many

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    In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird, the reader is introduced to the extended metaphor of the mockingbird. The mockingbird is symbolic of many characters throughout the novel. It is a sin to kill a mockingbird, as mockingbird do nothing but sing and bring joy to the world. Tom Robinson is the main character in the novel who symbolizes the mockingbird because he is an innocent man who works hard to help others in any way he can, but because he is black he is treated unfairly. In today's society

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    once stated, "Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” When people bring up mockingbirds, many remember all that they do is sing. Mockingbirds don't harm us in anyway. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, many characters actually symbolize the mockingbird. The mockingbird is an enormous factor in the book. To Kill a Mockingbird is a tale set in the Deep South, in Macomb Alabama during the 1930’s. The book represents a dysfunctional

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