Just as in real life, the tone in books is influenced by the settings and the characters that are there. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the tone of the story is affected by the metaphors and imagery surrounding the settings and the characters. ... The tone of the story can also be affected by the words describing a certain character. ... Being his eyes are colorless and don't reflect like, just like a black-hole. A black hole is cold, taking and never giving. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Boo Radley is overall an innocent and peaceful character. ... He is an innocent and childlike character and he starts to show through subtle acts of kindness that he cares for the children and his appearances grow becoming more public and risky. ... Boo is a great character to use for the symbolization of a mockingbird because he is innocent and timid yet, the people of Maycomb ridicule him do his false reputation. ... Even though his appearance in the novel was brief he was still an important example of mockingbird like character. ... Tom has been yet another great character Lee utilized to...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" some characters were explained to be as outcasts. Walter Cunningham, Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell are outcasts who nevertheless gain sympathy in "To Kill a Mockingbird". Walter Cunningham manages to gain sympathy in the novel because in chapter 2, wh...

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There is a lot of pigeon holing families (pg 145). ... Atticus does this with Mrs Dubose and Mr Ewell and as the children mature, they learn to do this with various characters, such as Mayella Ewell and Boo Radley. ... and Harper Lee seems to be able to offer no explanation as to what to do with inherently evil characters such as Mr Ewell. ... Harper lee's aim for her readers seems to be to live the lives of her characters, to live Atticus' Maxim and by doing this make them appreciate similar characters in their own communities, especially those you know little about. ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Even the most despicable of characters can be worthy of sympathy. ... In a novel such as To Kill a Mockingbird, it is hard to sympathize with any characters due to the animosity and racial tension between the Maycomb inhabitants. There are few characters that merit sympathy. ... Nathan quickly ends the blossoming friendship by filling the tree hole with cement. ... It would be inhumane not to sympathize with these three characters. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Harper Lee's character Jem (Jeremy) Finch, from her famous novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is very interesting because during the course of the novel, he undergoes a great maturing process. ... Radley lied to them, and Jem could not figure out why he would lie to them if they only wanted to know why he filled up the hole. ...

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Introduction The social and historical contexts of both novels are quite different as they are set in different centuries where society and values differ. The story of Jane Eyre is set in Victorian England, the 1800's where a patriarchal society existed, where the society was male dominated and where women had very few rights and at this time, women were inferior to men and had to marry well to secure a good future. The social and historical contexts of this novel are very different from those in To Kill a Mockingbird. This is because the novel is set in a different era of time, where...

• Word Count: 5125
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: High School