"To Kill A Mockingbird is a very compelling and influential film. ... Not much is said by Brock Peters who plays the accused Tom Robinson, but his short performance is said to be very captivating in many reviews. ... These were created to gain the right of premiering "To Kill A Mockingbird." ... The theatre declared they would pay 10 dollars in cash to the first five customers who brought a live mockingbird. ... A small child humming tunes, draws a stick figure mockingbird, colors it all out of the lines and tears the bird right in half. ...

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• Approx Pages: 3
• 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. ... Leaving Calpurnia to do any chores of her own till she...

• Word Count: 1244
• Approx Pages: 5
• 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. ... Even the farm owners were always short of money. ...

• Word Count: 486
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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 trial. ... His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Author Biography Harper Lee, born April 28 in 1926, is an American author mainly known for her one and only novel "To Kill A Mockingbird". ... The third significant event happens when the judge declares Tom guilty, and later that day he is shot and killed because he tried to run. Then, Bob Ewel attempts to attack Scout and Jem, but is fought off and killed by Boo Radley. ... Foray: noun; a sudden, short attack; "Jem threw open the gate and sped to the side of the house, slapped it with his palm, and ran back past us, not waiting to see if his foray was successful.... He wants to...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Ambrose Bierce's short story ,"The Mockingbird", he uses the tragic outcome of a scouting mission to show the importance of humanity. ... As his duty of guarding "The sleeping camp for whose security he was accountable with his life"(2), he fires into the spot where he hears a sound, little did he know, he fired and killed his own twin brother. ... The ending took little words to produce as if Bierce didn't want it to overpower events that has led up to the ending, which is what is truly important in "The Mockingbird". ...

• Word Count: 308
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

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. ... To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming of age as Scout and Jem encounter the problems brought upon by the attitudes of the elders and peers during the ongoing of the trial. ... Sometimes I did not understand him but my periods of bewilderment were short lived. ... In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird there are two discussed opinions of how to treat other people. ... The effects of the Great Depression are evident in the novel To Kill a Mockingb...

• Word Count: 1479
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• Grade Level: High School

In, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout learns many lessons as a young child. She gets into a lot of trouble and is always confused on why certain things happen. Her father, Atticus, never fails to tell her to the truth about the world. One of the most important lessons Atticus teaches Scout ...

• Word Count: 915
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• Grade Level: High School

Scott Fitzgerald, 'Both Sides Now' by Joni Mitchell and 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee, in an attempt to bring us closer to answering that seemingly unanswerable question - what really is love? ... The results of a US study published in the Journal of Family Psychology states, "It is rather remarkable that so many people would think that there is no possibility that their marriage will end in divorce when half or more of all marriages are terminated in divorce...positive illusions about marriage appear to be more powerful than illusions about other aspects o...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

However, compromise can only bring short-term benefits and it cannot be the best solution of any incompatibility. ... Atticus Finch, in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird is a case in point. ... It can only make you feel full for a short period but it can't satisfy your hunger. ...

• Word Count: 505
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• Grade Level: High School

Even though To Kill a Mockingbird won the Pulitzer Prize Award, the Alabama Library Association Book Award, and the Brotherhood Award of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the novel still receives shouts of criticism because of its "immorality" and "racist attributes" (Karolides et al.). Banning To Kill a Mockingbird gave southerners the excuse to avoid hearing a part of American society they did not want to hear. ... Similar to To Kill a Mockingbird, the same advocations apply to I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. ... For example, Richard Connell's short st...

• Word Count: 2168
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, she tells a story of a young girl growing up in a time of racism and hatred. ... Based on the events told in To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee does not believe that all men are equal under the law. ... His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This can be applied to the short stories: Blue Winds Dancing and Two kinds, and to the book: To Kill a Mockingbird. ... To Kill a Mocking Bird is this last thing assimilation will be applied to. ... In two of the stories, To Kill a Mocking Bird and Blue Winds Dancing, the characters realize the evil that society holds and tries to get away from it. ...

• Word Count: 687
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• Grade Level: High School

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. ... Tom Robinson's left hand is 12 inches shorter than his right hand. ... They are aiming to kill him rather than aiming to stop him, only because he is black. ... The novel To Kill a Mockingbird proves that one can be worthy of sympathy even with mistakes they make and their human imperfections....

• Word Count: 1484
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• Grade Level: High School

To kill a Mocking Bird could be considered a reliable and unexaggerated portrait of southern American's prejudice because the author Harper Lee based Maycomb the setting for the book and the character Atticus. ... The lynch mob were a group of men that threatened to take the law in their own hands and got together to kill Tom Robinson before his trial. ... This implies that Aunt Alexandra is prejudice towards Calpurnia and that her shortness and the tone that she projects to the reader suggests this. There is also gender prejudice in 'To Kill a Mocking Bird', for example Scout ...

• Word Count: 1707
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

To kill a Mocking Bird could be considered a reliable and unexaggerated portrait of southern American's prejudice because the author Harper Lee based Maycomb the setting for the book and the character Atticus. ... The lynch mob were a group of men that threatened to take the law in their own hands and got together to kill Tom Robinson before his trial. ... This implies that Aunt Alexandra is prejudice towards Calpurnia and that her shortness and the tone that she projects to the reader suggests this. There is also gender prejudice in 'To Kill a Mocking Bird', for example Scout ...

• Word Count: 1688
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School