In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows how prejudice and racism affected black people. ... Miss Maudie says: Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. ... That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird... - 90 Tom Robinson shouldn't die for being a mockingbird, but racists can't look past the color of his skin to see the harmless and innocent mockingbird. ... White Southerners can't see past skin color to distinguish a mockingbird from a guilty person. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A major theme in To Kill A Mockingbird is racism. ... The setting of To Kill A Mockingbird is a small, southern town in the 1930's. This setting is the most important fictional element that affected the theme of racism in To Kill A Mockingbird. ... The theme of racism in To Kill A Mockingbird was most affected by the old, small, southern town called Maycomb County. ...

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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. ... Much of "To Kill a Mockingbird" takes place in the local courtroom, and it's evident that most of the townspeople have lived a lifetime of deeply ingrained racist hatred. ... For many fans of "To Kill a Mockingbird", Atticus Finch's integrity is a standard to live by. ...

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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. ... Conrad's quote, "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." applies to the novel , To Kill a Mockingbird in many ways. ... The most important theme of Mockingbird remains the notion of prejudice in all of its forms. ... `Kill the pig. ...

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"To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the 1930's in the little rural county of Maycomb where Atticus Finch and his two children, Jem and Scout live, during a time of racial discrimination. ... 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. ... The theme of fairness in To Kill a Mockingbird broadens to a further extent than just the situation of racial discrimination between the blacks and the whites. ... These blameless individuals were referred to as...

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Prejudices in To Kill A Mockingbird " As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it "whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash." This was said by Atticus Finch in the book, To Kill A Mockingbird. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Racism was an influential part of society in the 1930s' as seen in To Kill a Mockingbird. ... The largest demonstration of this in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird is Tom Robinson, he was guilty the moment that Bob Ewell reported him to the Sheriff Heck Tate. ... The racism in To Kill a Mockingbird was ridiculous, not in the fact that there was so much of it and it was so strong, but in the fact that a community would take the word of a trashy white man over that of a clearly innocent black man; that is what makes it so ridiculous. ... Racism was an influential part of society in the 1930s...

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• Has Bibliography
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In the story "To Kill a Mockingbird" I believe that language and selection of detail play a major role in the way the novel is receieved by the majority of readers. ... It is provoked by techniques like these which the authors of novels like "To Kill a Mockingbird" carefully employ. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... In, To Kill a Mockingbird, the socioeconomic status of the white community is depicted with the Finch family as the upper-class. ... In the seventy years since the fictional scenes in To Kill a Mockingbird took place small steps in the improvement of the race relations might have taken place, but it's not even close to enough. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Several examples of groups or individuals attempting to perpetuate the status quo of social inequality can be seen in To Kill A Mockingbird and Separate But Equal. ... In the book To Kill A Mockingbird there is the strong belief of any white man over a black man. ... The fears in both To Kill A Mockingbird, and Separate But Equal are not the exactly the same, but kind of have the same effect. ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee, reflects racial discrimination in Southern America. ... But he said sooner or later, he supposed, the temptation to go after birds would be too much and to shoot all the blue jays I wanted if I could hit them; but to remember, it was a sin to kill a mockingbird" (52). ... Tom Robinson is a mockingbird. ... He does not want to kill him" (125). ... Mayella is also a mockingbird. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The theme with the most impact in 'To Kill a Mockingbird" is Prejudice. Prejudice is "a judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts." Throughout the novel, there were many incidents, but two of them stood out the more than others. These are the teachings ...

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After viewing the film, To Kill A Mocking Bird, it was very interesting and an informative piece of work. ... At the trial in To Kill a Mockingbird, the man is found guilty based solely on the verbal accounts provided by the victim. As the ending of the movie approaches, one learns that Tom was shot and killed while trying to escape from the authorities that had him in their custody. ...

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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. ... "'You goddamn whore, I'll kill ya.'" ...

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A trial is the examination before a court of the facts or laws in a case in order to determine that case. It is the act of testing or proving by experience or use. In the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" a black man, Tom Robinson, was accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell, and was brought to t...

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In the novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, an interesting idea is prejudice. This idea is portrayed in many aspects of the novel, and is directed towards both groups and individuals in the Maycomb community. Prejudice is linked with the ideas of fear, superstition and injustice. It is i...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

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. The place where the novel is set is a county called Maycomb, an imaginary county in Southern Alabama in the United States. In Maycomb, most peopl...

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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...

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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. ... Things that showed how the law accepted racism was allowing the adults to gather around the county jail, ready to kill Tom Robinson. ...

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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. ... The idea of racism in the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" is not necessarily only black versus white (or shall we say Cygnets versus Ducklings) like it was in "The Ugly Duckling". ... In comparison to "Almost French", we notice that in "To Kill a Mockingbird", the idea of conflict is constricted to an "inner-town" area, in which all the conflict o...

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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...

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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. ... To Kill A Mockingbird is a compassionate, dramatic, deeply moving novel that contains many valuable morals and life's lessons about justice, courage, integrity, perseverance, and equality, while at the same time opposing racism and discrimination. ... In good conscience, banning To Kill A Mockingbird from our schools cannot be done-it is a preposterous, absurd idea that should have neve...

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Discrimination and prejudice were very common acts in the early and middle 1900's. Prejudice in this book is displayed by the acts of hate and misunderstanding because of someone's color. People of color were the majority that were treated unfairly. During this time in the southern states, black peo...

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Prejudice is shown in "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee and in "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. ... There are some good examples of this through Tom Robinson in the book "To Kill a Mocking Bird". ... "To Kill a Mocking Bird" isn't the only book that prejudice is evident in. ... As you can see there was different kinds of prejudice in the books "To Kill a Mocking Bird" and "The Crucible". ...

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• Has Bibliography
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In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, there is much tension between blacks and whites. Atticus Finch, one of the most respected men in Maycomb County, Alabama, is one of the few white citizens who believe that race is not important. Justice is defined as the principle of moral rightness. Atticus Fi...

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• Grade Level: High School