The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee in 1960, explores the values and attitudes of America in the 1930's through the portrayal of relationships. ... Mockingbird allows us to understand the relationship between parents and children during this period and the associated morals and values. ... The social relationships represented in Mockingbird serve to explore the values and attitudes in America in the 1930's. ... This is emphasised in Mockingbird during the trial of Tom Robinson of which Atticus is the appointed lawyer. ... The representation of these relationships i...

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Critical Analysis of To Kill A Mockingbird The relationship between form and content in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird can be analyzed by studying the narrative point of view, extended metaphor, tone, and irony. ... Mockingbirds are first mentioned when Scout and Jem receive air rifles for Christmas; Atticus tells them to "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Miss Maudie explains to Scout why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, she says "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. ... ...

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Book Analysis To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in the small town of Monroeville, Alabama, as the youngest of Amaza Coleman Lee and Frances Finch Lee's four children. ... Examples of this prejudice are repeatedly displayed in Harper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird. ... Symbols played an important role in To Kill A Mockingbird. ... That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."... Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird should most definitely be included among a list of works of high literary merit. ...

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"To Kill A Mockingbird is a very compelling and influential film. ... These were created to gain the right of premiering "To Kill A Mockingbird." ... The theatre declared they would pay 10 dollars in cash to the first five customers who brought a live mockingbird. Most critic's analysis" of the film are very positive. ... A small child humming tunes, draws a stick figure mockingbird, colors it all out of the lines and tears the bird right in half. ...

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Analyzing Themes of To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee's first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, displays the life of a small southern family struggling through the depression in Maycomb, Alabama. ... Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, the major themes of courage, innocence, and prejudice are instrumental in the portrayal of life in a small southern community. ... It is a sin to kill a mockingbird because the bird is a sign of innocence. ... It is a sin to kill a mockingbird, because it willfully obliterates innocence. ... In To Kill a Mockingbird, the characters of the novel deal with rac...

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Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird is known throughout the country as a classic story depicting racism in a fictitious town in the heart of the South. ... Scout is the narrator and protagonist of To Kill a Mockingbird. ... One quickly realizes while reading To Kill a Mockingbird that Scout is who she is because of the way Atticus, he father, has raised her. ...

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The tone of any specific place is affected by the surroundings and also by the people present. Just as in real life, the tone in books is influenced by the settings and the characters that are there. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the tone of the story is affected by the metaphors and image...

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Mockingbird Analysis Chapter 8 Using essential Questions a) With close reference to the change in setting and the use of language and imagery, discuss how Harper Lee creates tension in the given passage. ... These imageries made the fire scene chaotic and disordered as on one side, people were trying frantically to put out the fire and on the other side, the fire truck was "killed by the cold". ... The main theme of To Kill a Mockingbird is to explore the moral nature of the people of the Maycomb County, whether these people are essentially good or bad. ...

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Atticus Finch is a defense lawyer for Maycomb County.He's also the honorable father of main character Scout and Jem. He is the lawyer for accused black rapist Tom Robinson and he tries to change injustices and racism in his small hometown. Atticus inner conflicts are expertly written in To Kill a Mo...

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Task: "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." (pg 33) This is the advice Atticus gives Scout. How does she put his advice into practice during the novel? In "To Kill a Mockingbird" Scout, the nar...

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Atticus Finch For Atticus Finch, most things are "as simple as black and white". In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, there is one character who is able to make an impact on his children and both types of society. Atticus is a single parent who tries very hard to make everybody he...

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• Grade Level: High School