Robert Mulligan's film classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is based on the celebrated novel of the same name, by Harper Lee. The film is set in the 1930's, the era of Lee's childhood. Harper Lee was born in Alabama, and her father, a lawyer, defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper, and it is from this account that Lee created a story that would challenge and inspire generations. ... Harper Lee allows her readers, and Mulligan gives his audience, insight into Robinson, portraying him as a good man. ... Despite what we know to be the truth about Robinson and...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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The novel To kill a Mocking Bird mainly deals with the struggle of one family trying to deal with racism and the effects it has on them and their lives. Racism in this book affects the characters because they didn't try to stop the hatred that was going on in their community. It is also about the ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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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. ... 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 ...

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The main message that Harper Lee is trying to convey through "To Kill a Mockingbird" is that one should stand up for what they believe in, even if it is done under the surface, or with less gusto, amply demonstrated through the characters of Atticus Finch, who fought for Tom Robinson as hard as he could, Mr. ... As Scout says about the editorial he published in his newspaper about the trial and Tom's murder, "Mr. ... The moral of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" is that one should stand up for what they believe in, even if it is through smaller gestures because lit...

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The novel title "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is the representation of the most meaningful statement produced in the novel. ... The children, (Scout, Jem and Dill) wondered about Boo and his strange way of life, but really had no idea of who he really was. At first, the children asked questions about Boo with regards to his strange life style. When this did not satisfy their curiosities, they made up games and stories about Boo, which portrayed him as being a monster. ... After Heck Tate and Atticus decided that it was better to cover the fact that Boo killed Bob Ewell, Scout agree...

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To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is a touching novel written in the late 30's and early 40's. ... You can only assume that they were taught to say it by their parents, or heard it from other children talking about it. Atticus was talked about because he defended a black man against a white man's word. ... Atticus was a very respected man in the community, and it was strange because ever since he took the case he was talked ugly about, and disliked by some townspeople. ...

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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. ...

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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...

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The book that I have just finished reading is called "To Kill A Mockingbird" which is written by Harper Lee. ... This book is generally about two children who grow up in a town that is full of racism and discrimination. ... Atticus doesn't accept their admiration for him because he wasn't proud of it and he tries to show them that real courage isn't about being able to shoot well, but it is about something deeper. ... Whenever the children have a question, about black people or anything else, they know that they can ask Atticus. ... Whatever Cal says goes, and when Scout tries t...

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