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. ... Lee's characterisation, themes and setting serves to demonstrate how literature can be used to effectively reflect a particular context in a way that conveys a message or moral. ... Lee displays this when Atticus reprimands Jem for harassing Boo Radley. ... Lee explores this when Aunt Alexandra refuses the relationship between Scout and Walter Cunningham. ... That's what I don't like about it." ...

• Word Count: 661
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a story of the coming of age of two children who begin to realize the cruelty of people in the world. ... (Lee 61) Early in the novel Scout and Jem are very close. ... Scout describes her feelings about a friend that she and Jem both share. ... (Lee 117) Jem's age is what makes him so difficult to live with for Scout. ... Scout is offended by this and inquires about this to her father. ...

• Word Count: 1479
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

"To Kill a Mockingbird" The early 1960s was perfect for Harper Lee's novel of Southern racial injustice, To Kill a Mockingbird. ... With the mind of a child, Haarper Lee tells a tale of prejudice and a society's coming of age. ... They also take to innocently acting out stories they've heard about the Radley family. ... She is intelligent, inquisitive, and sensitive about the world around her. ... Because little is known about him except that he isn't like everybody else, it is easy for citizens to form opinions about Radley. ...

• Word Count: 683
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird," by Harper Lee, takes place during the Great Depression. ... Lee presents the acts of prejudice and exhibits the tragic consequences that fall upon those involved. ... People in the town gossiped and gossiped about him and about what he may want may not have done. ... Young children making up games about a man they do not even know, all the information passed down from adults around them. ...

• Word Count: 612
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... Also the people in Maycomb did not know much about what was going on in other places outside the county. ... Students at school did not even know what "current event" was about. ... Atticus, a lawyer as well as Scout's father, says about the justice system, " when it is a white man against a black man, the white man always wins " this quote explains how unfair the court was to Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping a white woman ...

• Word Count: 486
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Scout is an innocent child in the 1930's that matures into a more thoughtful person to other races as she learns of the prejudice in Maycomb in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. ... After class one day Scout tells Jem something about her teacher Miss Gates, "She went on today about how bad it was of [Adolf Hitler] to treat Jews like that. ... As Scout is giving opinions on prejudice and learning about is, she begins to get used to different people. ... Also, Scout doesn't care what other people will say about her going to the Negro church. ... Scout is not prejudice at a...

• Word Count: 670
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

This essay will argue that the words and ideas expressed by Atticus Finch are just as true today as when he spoke them and that they have much to teach today's adolescents about courage, tolerance and decency. Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is seen through the eyes of perhaps the worst period of time in the United States, the Great Depression. ... The words of wisdom that Atticus gives to his children and his community still have much to tell adolescents today about tolerance, decency and justice. ... It happens when Alexandra, Atticus ' sister, is complaining about Sco...

• Word Count: 806
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Harper Lee's character Jem (Jeremy) Finch, from her famous novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is very interesting because during the course of the novel, he undergoes a great maturing process. ... Racism is abundant in Maycomb, however Jem never thought about it until now. ... (Lee 117). ... Jem was also faced with racism he has not known about before, throughout the actual trial. ... Jem learns a lot through the course of the novel about how the world around him is. ...

• Word Count: 1209
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Critical Essay on "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a fictional story set in a small Southern town, Maycomb, in the early 1930. ... The Ewell father, Robert Lee, drinks and doesn't take proper care of his seven children. ... One thing that impressed me about Reverend Skyes was that he never described himself or his congregation with the word "nigger/s". ... Bush - refused an invitation to visit Jasper to speak about the racial murder because he did not want to offend the Christian Coalition and other ultra-right wing groups prior to his run for the P...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School