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

The most obvious forms of oppression in the fictional novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee are stereotyping, deprivation of rights and materials, and denial of equal access or opportunities. ... This novel by Harper Lee covers and goes into depth about the racism in a little town called Maycomb in Alabama; narrated by a young girl named Jean Louise Finch, or Scout, as the book references her. ... "...I ain't ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man" (Lee) says one onlooker when the trial is almost at an end. ... When it came to the court case in ...

• Word Count: 1567
• Approx Pages: 6
• 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