Peggy Lee

1. Miss Maudie destroys nut grass and a mad dog that Atticus kills in this novel that Harper Lee created. Miss Maudie loves everything about her garden but hates nut grass. The blade of nut grass can be easily spread all over her garden and even all over the Maycomb. It is small but it can ruin her garden so she must destroy at once without hesitation. Atticus kills mad dog named Tim Johnson because it is a diseased animal that can be infectious but also the possibility of violence

Assignment for Capote, In Cold Blood English 10- Honors- Mr. Hodges/Mr. Morris As part of your summer assignment, you will read In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. You may purchase the book on your own or you may borrow a school copy of it. Read closely and annotate your text. Annotations will not be collected, but this is an educational and intellectual habit that you want to begin if you haven’t already. After reading, complete the questions listed below. QUESTIONS The author frequently uses

To Kill A Mockingbird Essay In To Kill A Mockingbird it is a recurring theme for a lack of education to develop into a lack of judgment. This novel, by Harper Lee, includes many lessons taught by Atticus Finch to his children. He taught Scout and Jem, his children, that race and appearance does not affect the quality of a person, you will never understand one’s actions until you see things from their point of view and lastly to look past the evil in everyone. Atticus has great domination over his

child. Maycomb’s predominantly Caucasian populace always trusted the words of the trashiest white man above the words of the kindest black man. Scout bluntly states to her older brother, Jem, that, “I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks” (Lee 304). She believes that whether they are black or white, rich or poor, people are all people and they are created equal. Scout displayed multiple times throughout the book that she did not agree with the townspeople on the subjects of race and class;

Go Set a Watchman Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee is the eye-opening and long awaited sequel to the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. In the sequel, we see Jean Louise Finch, a 26-year-old writer, visiting her hometown of Maycomb, Alabama. Her annual visits home include catching up with her father Atticus, Uncle Jack, her friend Henry, the people of the town and the memories it contains. Ever since she moved to New York, her relationship with Maycomb has been the same in her mind, but things are changing

Is Fear More Powerful than Reason and Intelligence? An analysis of fear in To Kill a Mockingbird Jake Portnoff ENG2D-2 Mr.Whitebread To Kill a Mockingbird - ISP People often fear what they don 't understand. Evolutionary psychology can be traced back millions of years, when fear helped keep man from peril. Avoiding the unknown created a sense of security. Consequently, since the beginning of mankind, our instincts have developed to be perilous of the familiar. Fear of the unknown causes people

An Analysis of Racism and Critical Disposition in Maycomb County Racism was a tremendous issue in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. It was applied throughout the novel and was increasingly used to judge others in Maycomb’s society. Racism was revealed through the novel to characters Jem, Scout, and Dill who were young children that were learning about the good and evil in the small town they lived in. Racism was a constant and significant topic. There were many aspects that contributed to racism

by the protagonists. In one of the world’s most celebrated novels, To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee tells the story of an adolescent girl that highlights her growth through a series of events that take place in a small American town called Maycomb during the 1960s. The story deals with her journey to the state of maturity and social issues of America during that time. In it, Lee masterfully employs three unique secondary characters in Scout’s friend from the Meridian named Dill, her aunt

The way that people understand their circumstances and surroundings is often directly correlated to the way they perceive the world around them. An adult understands much more around him than a child does because of the mature, more knowledgeable perception he has. Meanwhile, the child, while not able to fully understand what she sees, often sees more than an adult because of the knowledge hungry, curious perception she has. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, the characters range in gender, age,

Ang Lee’s Crouching tiger Hidden Dragon is probably one of the most successful foreign films to ever be screened in America. Being the number one film of the year in 2000. On the other hand it was reportedly considered a flop in China. While it was influenced by American film styles, it still kept true to many aspects of its Chinese film heritage. With very apparent love story, it lacked the Extreme amount of Kung Fu fight scenes eastern audiences have come to enjoy. This is a stunning love story