Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou. ... The novel was written by Harper Lee, published in 1960 and was the winner of the Pulitzer Prize the following year. ... Students mature and they benefit by thinking critically about texts. ... How will students learn about the racism without reading Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird? ... Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Harper Lee, Maya Angelou have been teaching our children about the controversial issues for generations and look at the effects. ...

• Word Count: 942
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Harper Lee allows the reader to understand from the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" whether or not most people are "real nice". ... Through Harper Lee's use of symbolism of Tom to the Mockingbird the reader can see his purity and innocence. ... Harper Lee uses parallelism to emphasise to the reader that Atticus defending Tom Robinson is a "real nice" thing to do. ... and the white people dislike her because she is black "you've got to do something about her". ... Harper Lee uses red geraniums to symbolise the goodness inside Mayella Ewell is. ...

• Word Count: 1011
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This critical lens applies to the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird ,by Harper Lee because we the "evil" is being represents as the prejudice of the town. Harper Lee uses theme for the purpose of represent the "evil". ... Harper Lee uses characterization for the purpose of represent the "evil". ... The people create the prejudice in this town, and so this prejudice is the "evil", which Conrad speaks about, the evil which men create. ... Savagery is the evil in which Conrad talks about in this book. ...

• Word Count: 850
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

How does Harper Lee use point of view in To Kill a Mockingbird'? ... To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, is a classic novel set in Alabama that describes the wrongful accusation and conviction of a Negro man named Tom Robinson. ... Scout is confused by what some of her classmates have been saying about her father, Atticus Finch. However, she doesn't actually mind Atticus defending a black man; it is the comments, which other people make about Atticus, which disturb her. The two extracts from To Kill a Mockingbird show how Harper Lee has used the ...

• Word Count: 565
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Harper Lee's novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird," contains many examples of prejudice and discrimination towards women, children, people of dark skin, and family backgrounds. The novel is mainly about the discrimination in a trial of a black man accused of rape. ... The book teaches us about many of the forms of racism and prejudices that were present during the 1930's. ... (Lee 194) Mr. ... These parties, however, are just an excuse to gossip about town's people or an event in Maycomb. ...

• Word Count: 778
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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

The novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee touches on many different issues. ... I always hear about people being discriminated against, but I did not think that reading about it would make me so emotional and angry. ... Harper Lee captured southern life in a way that infuriated many white southern people. ...

• Word Count: 595
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The most obvious forms of oppression in the fictional novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are stereotyping, deprivation of rights and materials, and denial of equal access or opportunities. ... This novel by Harper Lee covers and goes into depth about the racism in a little town called Maycomb in Alabama; narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, or Scout, as the book references her. ... "...I ain't ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man" (Lee) says one onlooker when the trial is almost at an end. ... When it came to the court case in ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As if the celestial bodies controlling the courses of human events possessed some strange sense of irony, the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, has in recent years, become a mockingbird itself. ... When Tom Robinson (the defendant in a rape trial) was convicted, I did not think: "Why would Harper Lee even write about a black man being discriminated against like that? ... Though it may be unpleasant to read about or acknowledge, that doesn't make it go away. ... It may it be in health class, the halls at school, or through the media; eventually they are going to learn about these f...

• Word Count: 973
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Harper Lee's message about fairness in To Kill a Mockingbird is that societies views and actions towards a person, are based on their skin color, who they are, and their personal image. ... " (Lee 173). ... (Lee 110). ... In the beginning of the book, she is about six years old. ... Cunningham about a subject relevant to him when the mob confronts Atticus. ...

• Word Count: 1230
• Approx Pages: 5
• 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

Harper Lee's book 'To Kill a Mocking Bird' explores just that. ... To Kill a Mocking Bird is a story about everyone's right to be treated fairly no matter their race, color, background or creed and not blinded by racial prejudice or fear created by others and not placed into social classes. ...

• Word Count: 814
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, I as a reader am able to extend the boundaries of my understanding of the issues and characters in this and other novels. ... It is the most talked about in the novel being the main issue and many things can be learnt about racism previously unfamiliar in mine and possibly other reader's knowledge. First of all is the message about how separated the white people are to the coloured people in the town. ... From reading about this issue from the characters experiences I have learnt that the most important thing is to appreciate the good qu...

• Word Count: 986
• Approx Pages: 4