To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a debatable book on the required reading list for the tenth grade curriculum. ... To Kill a Mockingbird only benefits the teen mind because of its strong messages. ... A teenager does not entirely understand what types of situations others around them are experiencing, but Harper Lee's inspiring book gives light to those reading and teaches them about values. ... Those who disagree with the language and content in To Kill a Mockingbird should think of tenth grade history classes. ... Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird brings about an argu...

• Word Count: 1863
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In comparison to many novels, it is quite clear that To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, represents courage the best by the actions of Atticus, Scout, and Boo Radley. ... Therefore, Harper Lee conveys courage as a theme in To Kill a Mockingbird with three important characters. ... Furthermore, Atticus is an important attribute when examining courage in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. ... To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, it is clearly evident that the efforts and actions of Atticus, Scout, and Boo Radley demonstrate courage as a central theme in the novel. ... Therefore, in Harpe...

• Word Count: 1350
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the children learn many important life lessons. ... Another lesson is that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, in other words, to harm the innocent. ... Atticus tells the children that "it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" (Lee 119), and Miss Maudie explains more by saying that "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us."(Lee 119) The mockingbird is a symbol of innocence. ... "(Lee 320) When Scout is about to kill the roly poly bug, it is like the mocking...

• Word Count: 1536
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Prejudice in to Kill a Mockingbird Prejudice is arguably the most prominent theme of the novel. ... and Harper Lee seems to be able to offer no explanation as to what to do with inherently evil characters such as Mr Ewell. ... Atticus is not concerned with making Scout into a "ray of sunshine-, although Harper Lee does make concessions here with showing Scout to be sympathetic towards the Belle image. ... Harper Lee does not suggest a quick solution to prejudice, which is why it is such a realistic book. ... First shown in Chpt 10 where Atticus says "shoot all the bluejays ...

• Word Count: 1462
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• Grade Level: High School

For example, Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird takes the reader on a journey of exploring the moral nature of human beings and discovering what it is that makes people the combination of good and evil that they are. ... No person is only good or only evil, but a combination of the two; Harper Lee stresses to the readers how essential it is to understand that. ... The combination of goodness and evil that Harper Lee incorporated into Tom Robinson's trial further enhances that good and evil are coexistent. ... Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird shows the reader that no person i...

• Word Count: 1455
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Atticus Finch is a complicated character in "To Kill A Mockingbird." As I read the book, his character slowly began to make sense in my mind as the author, Harper Lee, gives us clues in small doses. ... "He doesn't believe in killing just to kill. He says that killing mockingbirds is a "sin"" because they don't hurt anyone in any way. ...

• Word Count: 1941
• Approx Pages: 8
• 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. ... Monroeville and Harper Lee's farther who was a lawyer. Monroeville was also Harper Lee's hometown and this gave her reasons to know the socity as deeply as she does. ... The appearance of females is one particular view that Harper Lee projected to me as the reader. ... One of the many causes of prejudice Harper Lee illustrates in the book is that humans need a scapegoa...

• Word Count: 1707
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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird (referred to as TKMB) by Harper Lee and the film a Time to Kill (referred to as TTK) by John Grisham, racism is made relevant. ... These rednecks rape Tonya, the daughter of Carl Lee and because of this Carl Lee Hailey does what he thinks is right. ... This signifies that they are going to do horrible things to the family or kill them. ... In To Kill a Mockingbird the inhabitants of Maycomb County are not very friendly to black people; they despise colored people and do not see them as equals. ... This group wants to kill Tom Robinson merely because the man i...

• Word Count: 2234
• Approx Pages: 9
• 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. ... Monroeville and Harper Lee's farther who was a lawyer. Monroeville was also Harper Lee's hometown and this gave her reasons to know the socity as deeply as she does. ... The appearance of females is one particular view that Harper Lee projected to me as the reader. ... One of the many causes of prejudice Harper Lee illustrates in the book is that humans need a scapegoa...

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

Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published in 1960 during a time of racial strife: the Civil Rights Movement was at its prime and tumultuous events evolved into violence, spread into states across the country and entered the American conscience. ... Harper Lee's novel, along with other prominent voices of the time, suggests that one develops a true sense of right, wrong and fairness by stepping into someone else's shoes and by practicing the virtues of courage, understanding and empathy. ... The importance of this strength while walking in someone else's shoe...

• Word Count: 2326
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• 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. ... 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 Mockingbird. ... Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a depiction of the wrongful convicti...

• Word Count: 1479
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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. ... The Ewell father, Robert Lee, drinks and doesn't take proper care of his seven children. ... 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 enoug...

• Word Count: 1892
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• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee skillfully shows how Scout, Jem, and Dill were prejudiced against Boo, when in fact, all these children are comparable to Boo even if they had not noticed so. ... "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. ... That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" (103). A mockingbird could represent an easy victim due to its utter innocence, just like Miss Maudie mentioned in the above quote, they do not do anything but chirp. ... A clear example of a character that reflects a mockingbird easily is Boo Radley...

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• Grade Level: High School

* Discuss the novel as a representation of moral courage To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee that is set in 1930's Alabama where colour prejudice was predominant. ... He is invariably kind and considerate to others and is Harper Lee's ideal of a true gentleman and a true hero. ... Of all the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird, Miss Maudie Atkinson is the person who is most like Atticus, and she has something of the same function. ...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• 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". ... Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Quill Award for Audiobook for this novel. ... 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. ... He wants to protect their innocence because, in a way, they are mockingbirds to h...

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• Grade Level: High School

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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Through the character of Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows the close and dependent relationship between acts of moral courage and personal integrity; when an individual fosters the moral courage to do the right thing even in the face of despair and on a daily basis, they in turn steadfastly adhere to high moral principles and a standard for oneself. The first example of the way courageous acts reinforce and foster integrity is found at the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, when Atticus decides to take the Tom Robinson case. ... This event is symbolic of a much more abstra...

• Word Count: 2284
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• Grade Level: High School

The book, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the sleepy Southern town of Maycomb, in the 1930s. ... 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 supporting characters in To Kill a Mockingbird stand up for what they believe in, through multiple subtle, but meaningful acts of friendship, integrity, and morali...

• Word Count: 1682
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus is a very courageous character, Atticus tried every way to help others were in the need of it. ... Therefore, In Harper's To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch moral compass helps him to overcome injustice despite the strong force of racist in the community. ... (Lee 153). ... (Lee). ... (Lee 272). ...

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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. Lee's book shines a glaring spotlight on the issues of race and justice. ... Jill May believes, "She [Harper Lee] also shows us three child...

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The Heroism of Atticus Finch: Essay The racism which was prevalent in many small American towns in the 1930s is expertly illustrated in Harper Lee's classic novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. ... Even the title of the novel reflects Atticus's principles; he will not shoot a mockingbird nor condone anyone else who does so, because mockingbirds do nothing but sing beautiful songs for us, and it is wrong to kill such a bird. ... , he has resolved never to kill another living thing or use a gun at all unless it is absolutely necessary, for he sees his talent with a gun as an unfair advant...

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The book that I have just finished reading is called "To Kill A Mockingbird" which is written by Harper Lee. ... In this essay I will answer the question that "To Kill A Mockingbird has been described as being extremely negative and pessimistic" Is this comment really fair? ...

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She is expecting to receive a $10,000 check from life insurance because of her husband's death, Walter Lee. ... Lena's son, Walter Lee Younger, also known as Junior, is a dreamer. ... Walter Lee's wife, Ruth Younger, has some problems with her husband, and wants to make peace with him. ... Similarities in Characters, Setting, Plot, or Theme to other Books I have Read - A book that is similar to A Raisin in the Sun is, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. ... Walter Lee Younger wants to become a business man, and open his own business. ...

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There is a helpless and defenseless man in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mocking Bird. ... He was a kind of "mockingbird" in the novel. Miss Maudie said it best when she said "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy ... but sing their hearts out for us." Tom is compared to a mockingbird, an innocent being who did nothing wrong yet was punished because people had full control over him. ...

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• Grade Level: High School