To kill a Mocking Bird could be considered a reliable and unexaggerated portrait of southern American's prejudice because the author Harper Lee based Maycomb the setting for the book and the character Atticus. ... Prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, contains many prevalent themes. ... In the novel To Kill A Mocking Bird there are various types of prejudice such as racism, sexism, classism and ageism. ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Setting) The setting is important in the story because the whole story grows out of the particular back ground. ... Even Jem and Scout reflect this in the way they treat the other "Mocking Bird" in the story, Boo Radley. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Mockingbird Characters Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama, a small town similar to Maycomb, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird. ... (Phillips) A mocking bird is a symbol of innocence, and it seems that evil is always out to destroy innocence. Atticus told Jem, "I"d rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you"ll go after birds. ... That's why it's a sin to kill a mocking bird". ... Consequently, Tom was convicted, and later killed while trying to escape. ...

• Word Count: 865
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Harper Lee used these true life trials as a basis for Tom Robinson's trial in the book "To Kill a Mockingbird". ... Get it done quick and protect the fair womanhood of this state" this quote from Prosecutor Hutson describes the general attitude of the public in both settings of these trials. Finally, I believe that Lee used Haywood Patterson's quote "The courtroom was one big smiling white face" as her overview for the court scenes in her book "To Kill a Mocking bird". ...

• Word Count: 333
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• Grade Level: High School

To kill a Mocking Bird could be considered a reliable and unexaggerated portrait of southern American's prejudice because the author Harper Lee based Maycomb the setting for the book and the character Atticus. ... The lynch mob were a group of men that threatened to take the law in their own hands and got together to kill Tom Robinson before his trial. ... There is also gender prejudice in 'To Kill a Mocking Bird', for example Scout has to wear a dress to school and has to be accompany the ladies of Maycomb for their weekly gathering. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Some selections of the concerts included a quintet entitled "Western Fanfare", a symphonic composition entitled Music from "To Kill A Mockingbird", and another entitled "Simple Gifts" among others. ... Some of his compositions nominated include The Man With The Golden Arm, Summer and Smoke, True Grit, and To Kill a Mocking Bird. ... "To Kill A Mocking Bird" was an interesting piece to be performed in such a small ensemble setting. ... Having heard this piece before not only in a large orchestral setting, but in other forms such as Drum Corps. ...

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To Kill a Mockingbird and the Scottsboro Case: A Comparison On July 1, 1960, J.B. Lippincott published Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. In its first year of publication, To Kill a Mockingbird created one of the most extraordinary records in publishing history. ... However, research indicates that Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is very similar to the actual Scottsboro Case in setting, character, and conflict. ... Research clearly indicates that Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is similar to the actual Scottsboro Case in setting, character, and conflict. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Maya feels closer to him after this incident, perhaps she realized that they are both birds that tire of their cages. ... The play was in a absolutely different setting, yet the main protagonist Nora depended on her appearance and beauty to guide her, yet when she desired to make something of herself, it was too late to show her intelligence. ... This part of the novel reminded me much of Mayella Ewell from the novel To Kill A Mocking Bird. ... After both of the trials the men did not get the punishment they deserved immediately, yet eventually they got what was coming to them, when...

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• Grade Level: High School

To kill a Mocking Bird could be considered a reliable and unexaggerated portrait of southern American's prejudice because the author Harper Lee based Maycomb the setting for the book and the character Atticus. ... The lynch mob were a group of men that threatened to take the law in their own hands and got together to kill Tom Robinson before his trial. ... There is also gender prejudice in 'To Kill a Mocking Bird', for example Scout has to wear a dress to school and has to be accompany the ladies of Maycomb for their weekly gathering. ...

• Word Count: 1688
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"To Kill a Mockingbird- could be considered a reliable and unexaggerated portrait of southern American's prejudice because the author Harper Lee based Maycomb the setting for the book and the character Atticus. ... The lynch mob were a group of men that threatened to take the law in their own hands and got together to kill Tom Robinson before his trial. ...

• Word Count: 1551
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Harper Lee wrote an extraordinary novel, describing life and the way we are as people in society. Her book set an example for all people to learn off of. Lee's novel that was fist published in 1960, was a huge success. The book was such a revolution it was later made into a movie. The book was ...

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The setting, irony, character motives and Glaspell's message to the female readers gave insight on what came really came of Mr. ... She was so over joyed that she died "of the joy that kills" (Ronson 216). ... While they are discussing their findings and what it all means, the men mock them. ... "She-come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself-real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and-fluttery" (Ronson 222). ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He was now ready to kill Duncan. ... He could not rest in peace if he did not kill Macbeth. ... Macbeth sees himself kill his ruler. ... Instead, Macbeth accepts the plans and goes further by asking Lady Macbeth to "mock the time with fairest show" (I, vii, 91). ... In privacy, Macbeth re-thinks his plans to kill Duncan. ...

• Word Count: 12917
• Approx Pages: 52
• Grade Level: High School

This mystery soldier is the one who ignores the forewarnings prompted by the most respected philosophers of our time, and although he knows that war leads to carnage, continues to fight until an opposing bullet kills him. ... Because he switches around this word in many ways, Cummings mocks the American way of associating military service with courage, honor, privilege, and all the other pithy sayings society loves to drill into its citizens" minds. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the middle of the poem, he makes it known that he has killed a man out of anger and, in order to conceal his crime, hides the body in a forest and sets it on fire. ... For example, the burning of the fire symbolizes both the rage of the convict before he killed this victim and his desire to be forgiven. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Ghost stories, they have the power to throw us into another world, leading us to not only fear for the characters within the novel but for ourselves as the ghosts seem to follow the reader around weeks afterwards. It is the mastery of description that enslaves our minds as readers. Ghost stories paint vivid pictures inside the mind as they force us to come face to face with our deepest fears. Imagining ourselves as the main characters we become a part of the story, seeing, hearing, and feeling everything that the author is courageous enough to delve into the darker side of his or her subconsci...

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• Grade Level: High School

Summary Ralph hides in the jungle and thinks miserably about the chaos that has overrun the island. He thinks about the deaths of Simon and Piggy and realizes that all vestiges of civilization have been stripped from the island. He stumbles across the sow's head, the "Lord of the Flies," now merely a gleaming white skull-as white as the conch shell, he notes. Angry and disgusted, Ralph knocks the skull to the ground and takes the stake it was impaled on to use as a weapon against Jack. That night, Ralph sneaks down to the camp at the Castle Rock and finds Sam and Eric guarding the entranc...

• Word Count: 11237
• Approx Pages: 45
• Grade Level: High School