To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Thunder on Sycamore Street by Reginald Rose, illustrate the truth of the statement. The literary element of plot works effectively for Lee to express her ideas about how courage overcomes immense fears when there is something meaningful and important on the line. ... In his story Thunder on Sycamore Street, Rose also expresses ideas about fear and courage through the literary element of characterization throughout his story. ... Lee also uses characterization in his book To Kill a Mockingbird. ... Both Rose and Lee use literary elements to express i...

• Word Count: 344
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee in 1960, explores the values and attitudes of America in the 1930's through the portrayal of relationships. ... Lee's characterisation, themes and setting serves to demonstrate how literature can be used to effectively reflect a particular context in a way that conveys a message or moral. ... Lee displays this when Atticus reprimands Jem for harassing Boo Radley. ... Lee explores this when Aunt Alexandra refuses the relationship between Scout and Walter Cunningham. ... That's what I don't like about it." ...

• Word Count: 661
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a traditional prose fiction novel, and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a graphic novel, explore the conflict between personal and public values of their respective main characters and intolerant societies using similar techniques despite their different textual forms. ... Lee and Satrapi highlight the intolerance through the use of first-person perspective, symbolism, and textual/graphical irony. ... In To Kill a Mockingbird, Dill cries about the unjust way African Americans are treated, "Let him get a little older and he won't get sick a...

• Word Count: 1031
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, a traditional prose fiction novel, and Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a graphic novel, explore the conflict between personal and public values of their respective main characters and intolerant societies using similar techniques despite their different textual forms. ... Lee and Satrapi highlight the intolerance through the use of first-person perspective, symbolism, and textual/graphical irony. ... In To Kill a Mockingbird, Dill cries about the unjust way African Americans are treated, "Let him get a little older and he won't get sick a...

• Word Count: 1031
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird has remained enormously popular since its publication in 1960. ... Lee has stated that the character of Dill is based on young Truman Capote, a well-known Southern writer and childhood friend. ... Lee makes use of several images and allegories throughout the novel to symbolize racial conflict. The children's attitudes about Boo, for example, represent in small scale the foundation of racial prejudice in fear and superstition. ... Lee has stated that the novel was essentially a long love letter to her father, whom she idolized a...

• Word Count: 2287
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the beginning of the novel To Kill A Mocking by Harper Lee, Jem and Scout Finch were ignorant and prejudice towards Boo Radley. ... Innocently, and without knowing it, Jem and Scout drew inequitable conclusions about people they knew nothing about, like Boo Radley. ... This was evident when Jem gave Dill and Scout a description of Boo Radley, "Boo was about six and a half feet tall, he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were blood-stained, there was a long jagged scar that ran across his face, and his teeth were rotten and yellow, and he drool...

• Word Count: 748
• Approx Pages: 3
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate