To Kill A Mocking BirdTo Kill A Mockingbird "Classic," a term one uses to describe many things, such as a defining moment or an object such as a book. When used in this context, such as describing a book, it persuades the reader to examine the novel further to discover what makes this piece of literature so memorable to people who have read it. ... One may describe this novel as a classic because the messages described in the novel can be perceived on so many different levels that any reader, no matter the level, can observe these messages. ... This message is displayed on many levels so even ...

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Barakas's classic Beat response to these forces however, was one of cool disengagement. ... (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxii) A major change in Amiri's thoughts about political activism began when he was invited to go to Cuba with a group of black writers. ... (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxiv) Amiri is all about using poetry as a machine-gun, he once made a comment "we want poems that kill" (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxv). ... There was some truth to it, because I was struggling to be born, to break out from the shell i was instinctively sense surrounding my own dash for freedom"(...

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Robert Mulligan's film classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is based on the celebrated novel of the same name, by Harper Lee. ... Harper Lee allows her readers, and Mulligan gives his audience, insight into Robinson, portraying him as a good man. ...

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This book is good to read after or before The Classic Slave Narratives, to compare and contrast the lives of black people in America, during the time of slavery. The Classic Slave Narratives offers a wider approach to living in these times, by coming at more men's point of view. ... Douglass allows the reader to analyze the occurrences on our own stance. ... This may change the route of being as the other books, as The Classic Slave Narratives are. ...

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Two men, separated not only by race but also distance, come to share similar experiences in the classic novel "Cry, the Beloved Country". ... "The reader soon realizes it matters not a tinker's dam what the color of their respective skins is."...

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Perils Of Slavery Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a slave narrative by Harriet Jacobs, under the pseudonym of Linda Brent, that gives a true account of the brutality slavery held for women. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is Jacobs" own story of what it was like to be born an...

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(p.3) All throughout the novel, it is very interesting to note that Ellison has never mentioned the protagonist's name, but instead the readers are guided by the narrative and informed that he is given a new name as the plot develops, and intriguingly, the protagonist adapts to each of the name that was given to him. ... (p.450) The protagonist is said to represent a classic case of the misguided Negro who was taught by society to despise his own race. ...

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• Grade Level: High School