- Miss Maudie by the foot-washers for her love of nature - Atticus by the community for defending a Black man - Tom Robinson himself Harper Lee indicates that the breaking down of prejudice has to be targeted towards individuals initially, like the Cunningham man at the trial. ... and Harper Lee seems to be able to offer no explanation as to what to do with inherently evil characters such as Mr Ewell. ... Atticus is not concerned with making Scout into a "ray of sunshine-, although Harper Lee does make concessions here with showing Scout to be sympathetic towards the Belle...

• Word Count: 1462
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, an interesting idea is prejudice. ... Prejudice is also shown towards individual characters in the novel who do not fit into the expected behavioural patterns of society and about whom little is known. ... That's what (the society) don"t like about it. ... We can see the ugly issues in human life, make their appearances on Harper Lee's narrow stage. ...

• Word Count: 521
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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

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. ... Monroeville and Harper Lee's farther who was a lawyer. Monroeville was also Harper Lee's hometown and this gave her reasons to know the socity as deeply as she does. ... The appearance of females is one particular view that Harper Lee projected to me as the reader. ... One of the many causes of prejudice Harper Lee illustrates in the book is that humans need a scapegoa...

• Word Count: 1707
• Approx Pages: 7
• 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. ... Monroeville and Harper Lee's farther who was a lawyer. Monroeville was also Harper Lee's hometown and this gave her reasons to know the socity as deeply as she does. ... The appearance of females is one particular view that Harper Lee projected to me as the reader. ... One of the many causes of prejudice Harper Lee illustrates in the book is that humans need a scapegoa...

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

the power of love This film is was the big screen adaptation of Harper Lee's prize-winning novel. ... The story is believed to be based on events that happened in Lee's childhood. ... However Finch has other ideas and sets about trying to prove Robinson's innocence. ... They are searching for the truth about Boo Radley, a neighbour who is shrouded in mystery, although there are many stories about him. The kids have taken most of the stories on board, and while Boo provides something for them to fantasise about, ultimately they are afraid of him. ...

• Word Count: 452
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Many people have wondered why Harper Lee decided to name her book after what seems like an insignificant excerpt. ... The only time Harper Lee mentions anything being a sin is when she relates it to a mockingbird. ... When Scout asked Miss Maudie about this she said, "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. ... One must think about the title, To Kill a Mockingbird, very carefully in order to understand it. ... If somebody were to change the title, than the excerpts about killing a mockingbird wouldn't seem really important. ...

• Word Count: 809
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

To Kill a Mockingbird is a fictional novel by Harper Lee. ... That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. ... Harper Lee is a great author of all of his books. ... To think about what you are going to say before they say it to read for people that like suspense novels....

• Word Count: 656
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee utilizes the innocence of the mockingbird and the turmoil in Maycomb to symbolize how the world's evil effects every one of our lives and the initial judgment, we pass on others; causing the unfair judgment and pursuit of innocent people, she uses Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Tim Johnson to do so. ... Boo is Maycomb's most talked about mystery. ... As the book continues Lee begins to uncover the real Boo. ... Scout and him go to tell Calpurnia about Tim's suspicious behavior. ... In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee utilizes Boo Radley, Tim...

• Word Count: 1225
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

At the end of this chapter, Atticus tries to explain to Scout and Jem about where they came from and he speaks harshly to Scout when she is making noise with a comb. ... Aunt Alexandra had put him up to this somehow" (Lee 134). ... Miss Caroline then tells Scout to tell her father "not to teach me anymore, it would interfere with my reading" (Lee 17). ... Boo Radley is "assigned" this identity of a monster in the beginning of the story based on the few things that people know about him such as the fact that he got in some legal trouble when he was younger. ... Social i...

• Word Count: 699
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In To Kill a Mocking Bird, there are many instances where Harper Lee uses ethics to describe scenes in the novel. ... In chapter Scout, Jem, and Dill start playing the Boo Radley game and Atticus finds out about it. ...

• Word Count: 283
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

To Kill a Mockingbird was written in 1960 by Harper Lee (a law student from schools such as the University of Alabama and Oxford University). In it's first year of publication the book did something that most writers only dream about. ...

• Word Count: 372
• Approx Pages: 1
• 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

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird this very caste system is clearly depicted through the eyes of a young girl and raises the question of how willing, or not so willing, people are to accept change or differences in one another. ... "The Radley place jutted into a sharp curve The house was low long ago darkened to the color of the slate gray yard around it Rain-rotted shingles drooped oak trees kept the sun away the remains of a picket drunkenly guarded the front yard-(Lee 8). ... (Lamb ) They were children once and this is why Atticus has the mentality that he does about the way h...

• Word Count: 841
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

To Kill a Mockingbird is as much a story about principles as it is about parallels. ... In the novel, Harper Lee uses the saying "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird," to explain a lot of parts in the story. A good example of this is when the people of Maycomb convict Tom Robinson, who is just an innocent man was going about his business and is basically being charged for being black. ... The children at first believe the tales they here about Boo being seven feet tall, and eating the neighborhood cats and squirrels. ... This is also similar to Boo, as there are people in the town...

• Word Count: 704
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

" In "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, justice is definitely not served. ... According to Jem, he was, "about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained-if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. ...

• Word Count: 703
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

* Discuss the novel as a representation of moral courage To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee that is set in 1930's Alabama where colour prejudice was predominant. ... Instead of hating and despising Mayella for lying about Tom Robinson he feels sorry for her. ... When asked about the reason he takes on this case, Atticus simply replies, "But do you think I could face my children otherwise?" ... He is invariably kind and considerate to others and is Harper Lee's ideal of a true gentleman and a true hero. ... Rumours travel around town about Boo, such as "Boo drove the...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Author Biography Harper Lee, born April 28 in 1926, is an American author mainly known for her one and only novel "To Kill A Mockingbird". ... Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Quill Award for Audiobook for this novel. ... She is quick to judge and always seems to know just about everything on everybody. ... Place This setting of this story is in Maycomb, Alabama, because in the first chapter, it talks about how Scout's great grandfather moved to Maycomb, and it also talks about their current life in Maycomb. ... This shows t...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Scout learns this lesson in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. ... In chapter 2 Miss Caroline questions Walter Cunningham about not having a lunch. ... Atticus recognizes this and talks to her about it on page 30... Scout learns more about putting yourself in someone else's shoes while observing Calpurnia. ... Calpurnia is thinking about how she would feel in the other person's position. ...

• Word Count: 917
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Attticus finds out about it and orders him to apologize immediately. ... After hearing the gruesome tales of Boo Radley from Jem, Dill thinks up games about Boo. ... The children wonder about Boo and his strange way of life, but really have no idea of who he is. ... They learn about prejudice, courage, and judging others. ... Harper Lee's timeless classic teaches a great lesson to many readers. ...

• Word Count: 937
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee skillfully shows how Scout, Jem, and Dill were prejudiced against Boo, when in fact, all these children are comparable to Boo even if they had not noticed so. ... Since the beginning of time, society has had unwritten rules about the way that its citizens are supposed to behave. ... For a while, the Maycomb population has looked down upon Boo, with unfounded rumors about him. ... Atticus wants Jem to grow up with the right set of values because he cares about Jem. ... Radley cares about Boo, he is still demonstrating that he does not want to let ...

• Word Count: 1638
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School