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. ... Lee uses this aphorism to highlight the irony of the unive...

• 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. ... Lee uses this technique to challenge Miss Caroline's intolerant thinking, and more broadly the intolerance of Southern American society. ... Lee ...

• 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. ... Lee uses this technique to challenge Miss Caroline's intolerant thinking, and more broadly the intolerance of Southern American society. ... Lee ...

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

The Declaration of Independence states, "All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". But how much of this is true? Since the very beginning of the legal system in the United States, there has been inequality. Appearance has held such precedence...

• Word Count: 3114
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate