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    peaceful bird. To simply kill one is a sin; they’ve done no harm to anyone. There’s times in life we view people as mockingbirds, it could be your parents, grandma and grandpa, or somebody you just meet. In To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee. There’s three Characters that are allegorical mockingbirds. Tom, Boo and Mr.Raymond are allegorical mockingbirds because they helped people and in return they were discriminated. Boo Radley is an innocent man but society kills him. Miss Maudie views

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    Introduction     To start off I have to say that I am so impressed by this movie. Most good books are followed by an alright movie even these days with modern filming technology. But this was an awesome movie and book.  I am obviously not the only one who thinks so because this movie received the Academy Award for Best Actor , The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay,and the Golden Globe for the Best Film Promoting International Understanding. Summary:  Atticus Finch is a lawyer in the racially

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    As per tradition for all movie and books, “To Kill A Mockingbird” has a variety of antagonists; unlike most, the antagonists are lurking around in the shadows- meaning if you don’t look hard enough, it’s impossible to see them. To an average eye, the antagonists could be Mayella and Bob Ewell, who managed to sentence an innocent man to death on the lie of him attempting to rape Mayella, when in reality it was her who jumped him. Looking further, you could see the real antagonist, the main antagonist

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    one”(http://www.wiseoldsayings.com/fathers-quotes). Nerburn writes about how hard it is to be an eligible father .He proposes the question, “Do people think their father is the person who is able to provide them a lot of guidance or help? In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Jem and Scout live with their father, Atticus, who is a lawyer, and regard him as an excellent example. However, Scout and Jem don’t value Atticus as a father with full diligence because he is elder than most of other students’

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    The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is about a racial and discriminative society which a little girl named Scout grows up in ( Scout is one of the main characters in the novel ). This novel is written from Scout’s perspective and throughout the novel she talks about two men named Tom Robinson and Arthur Radley. Tom Robinson was an African American man who was tried in a court of law for a crime that he did not commit. He was accused by a white female named Mayella Ewell of rape

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    To kill a mockingbird, was an unheard phrase to me until I read this book. When it's first mentioned, it’s said by Atticus in his old, wise way “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Lee, 90), the reasoning why is later explained by Miss Maudie “ Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people's’ gardens, they don’t nest in corncribs, the don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.” (Lee

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    Historical-fiction novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, prejudice and racism are shown through the perspective of Jean Louise Finch, known as scout, and how it impacts family, and society. The novel is set back in the 1930s during the great depression and is centred around scout and Jem, and their adventures with the people of Maycomb and their father, Atticus. As the two children grow, they come to realize and understand the people and county of Maycomb. From reading the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird,

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    It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird said Atticus Finch, a person in To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, who is admired for his courage to stick to his morals, no matter what people in his town say. This title shows the main reasoning and the direction of the story and that is why the title of the novel is so fitting. This novel has two main narrative strands and both have a fitting character that shows the symbolic meaning of a mockingbird, innocence and benevolence. A symbolic mockingbird

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    The phrase “To Kill a Mockingbird” is brought up countless times in the novel, a mockingbird referring the individuals in society who are corrupted by other people’s actions or views. There are numerous characters who become mockingbirds throughout the novel, who are unwillingly changed in various different ways or even destroyed completely by evil. Whether the mockingbird is a full grown man like Tom Robinson who is being falsely accused or children who witness injustices too early in their lives

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    strengthen their relationships with one another. However, the only exception is when acceptance will result in harm towards others. The acceptance of one’s differences has a high probability of leading to a more unified community. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Calpurnia takes Jem and Scout to the First Purchase African American church. The children start off with a bumpy encounter from Lula, as she says the children are not welcome because they are white. As Lula gets shooed away, Zeebo comes

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