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. ... After unsuccessfully banning Lee's novel, three black parents resigned from the township human advisory council. ... 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
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• Grade Level: High School

Harper Lee uses different techniques such as parallelism and symbolism to imply the personalities of the characters as individuals and together as a community. ... 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. ... Harper Lee uses red geraniums to symbolise the goodness insi...

• Word Count: 1011
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• 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". ... Clearly, with the Tom Robinson case, Lee's characters deal with racial prejudice head on. ... However, Lee also shows us prejudice as it pertains to gender and social class. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the three books that I read, "Almost French" by, "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Anderson, and "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, I noticed two main themes that was portrayed in each. ... This was "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. ...

• Word Count: 886
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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... (Lee 194) Mr. ... (Lee 83) This type of language is completely unacceptable and nobody should be judged by the colour of their skin. ... (Lee 130) As well, Aunt Alexandra has tea parties with her missionary cycle. ... (Lee 230) People should not be judged on how much land they own, or how much money they have. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

To Kill A Mocking Bird.... The novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee touches on many different issues. The book touches many different sensitive and negative issues that our world faces today. The issue of race is at the root of the novel. Morals come into play when Atticus Finch...

• Word Count: 595
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• Grade Level: High School

In Harper Lee's book, To Kill A Mockingbird, there are many examples of racism. During this time in history racism was acceptable; as a matter of fact if you were not racist to blacks they would call you names such as "nigger lover" so in a way people were forced to do whatever society did or you wo...

• Word Count: 559
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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? ...

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• 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). ... Being the main case in the story, it gives Lee a chance to really emphasize how fairness back in the 1930's is completely different than what it is today. ... Another event that plays a big role in Lee's portrayal of unfairness is through Jem and Scout's maturations and adventures throughout the story. ... (Lee 110). ...

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• 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. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Racism caused many problems for black people in the South during the depression. Many blacks received unfair trials while others didn't even commit the crime they became guilty of. Many trials became famous and turned into stories and books because of the prejudice against blacks. Although the To...

• Word Count: 433
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English 2: per. 1 March 16, 2003 The Theme Essay In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are three constant themes that repeat themselves throughout the novel and throughout everyone's daily lives. ...

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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. ... 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 little things can make a significant difference. ...

• Word Count: 1682
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Can you imagine an innocent man found guilty and shot seventeen times? This would be an outrageous. Harper Lee's book 'To Kill a Mocking Bird' explores just that. The book is set in the 1930s in Southern America just after the civil war when blacks were seen as an inferior race and whites are ...

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