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    is a huge contributing factor which many people don’t realize. In her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows a family in the South during the 1930’s, experience prejudice at the extreme. Young Scout, who is the narrator, lives in Maycomb, Alabama where there is a lot of racism. Because of this, many problems erupt when people try to change the towns ways. Scout grows throughout the book as she experiences many events that test her strength. In the novel, Lee uses the characterization of Scout

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    “Lawyers, I suppose, were children once” by Charles Lamb. This quote by Charles Lamb ties with the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, by explaining that everyone starts somewhere. Atticus, a lawyer and father of scout and her brother Jem, is an important part in their moral growth by teaching more against the way of the town, Maycomb. Along with Boo and Tom Robinson guided the children to the light, how Maycomb really is, messed up. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is coming of age morally

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    "To Kill A Mockingbird" is grand and remarkable novel. Not just show how emotional, pitiful in and old town – Maycomb resemble, yet through her one of a kind works, some huge clashes about legislative issues and basic is going ahead through this drained old Southern town. All in all like instruction, companionship, neighbors as well as pacific in people like family and the general population's attributes themselves. In one book yet can secured with such numerous issues, Harper Lee more likely than

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    In Maycomb County, Alabama lives an immature man incapable of empathy because he dwells inside his isolating prison away from the rest of Maycomb. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960, she includes these caricatures of Maycomb Southerners in the 1930s living amongst sociopath Arthur “Boo” Radley. His family imprisoned Boo, middle-aged man, on the accounts of being unstable; yet, he is a paternal guardian to the Finch children from afar. In the 1930s, teenage delinquency

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    Innocence is evidently in peril during the everyday life of humanity. If the decline of innocence continues to occur then the world will be buried in corruptness. Solutions will eventually be found, but due to the sinful nature of humans the process will be tedious. The first step in defeating this wrong is recognition. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the symbol of the mockingbird to uncover the iniquity of the deterioration that innocent faces from attacks of prejudice and injustice toward

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    From childhood to adulthood, all of us will go through maturation at some point in our lives. Some mature quicker than others, but it’s essential for daily lives as we all turn into adults, adulthood doesn’t refer as much to the age you are but how mature you have become throughout the years. To Kill A Mockingbird revolves around the finch family and the kids imagination and creative games dealing with a recluse known as “Boo Radley”. Atticus, the father, is a lawyer who takes on a case of a black

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    Integrity is abundantly present in all societies today and changes each and every person, regardless of if one maintains one’s own. Harper Lee writes, in a realistic fiction novel written from the point of view of a young girl living in the racially segregated South, of her father who teaches her ways to change this segregation. This character develops and greatly influences those around him to question the way the society is being run. A similar character is seen in The Power of One, directed by

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    Over time in classrooms when history teachers mentions boycotting and the state of Montgomery, Alabama you may Automatically think about Rosa parks and the event that took place around her time. One of the main events that she is known for is not getting up from a seat on the bus, when she was asked just because of the color of her skin. Martin Luther King Jr, heard about this event that took place. A social movement was then started. African Americans started to boycott public transportation, not

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    “ Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you cant hit ‘em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. “ Racism persecutes innocent people for no good reason. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are various primary forms of prejudice in the novel. There is a trial of Tom Robinson on which the story centers. Aunt Alexandra creates a controversy in the Finche household about Calpurnia, their cook and surrogate mother figure. Lastly, Boo Radley, subject of discrimination because he is

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    One of the recurring themes throughout history is the fear-based contempt shown by many people towards those who look and act differently than the norm. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee explores the dark side of human nature through the interaction of its characters. All of the virtuous characters in the novel are challenged by some form of prejudice which they have to overcome. Some of the main forms of prejudice shown are prejudice to someone who looks different, towards someone who

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