In the extract from her novel To Kill a Mocking-Bird, Harper Lee reveals the courage shown towards a mob of men set out to kill an innocent man. ... The text is constructed as a first person narration from the adult of Jean-Louise Finch, in retrospect to when she was six. ... Constructing the text in the first person perspective, allows the reader to have a greater understanding of Scout and hence the ability to comprehend why she behaves the way she does. ... Being as innocent and naive as she is, Scout interprets Atticus" fear as being anger, and furthermore, feels embarrassed instead of fri...

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While he does amass an incredulous body, his thoughts and actions could not have been more innocent since he was created until his realization that his pseudo-father hates him. ... Yet it is no one person's fault for the misconception of these innocent beings, but rather society's general pattern of conformity. ...

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First of all, the father physically has typical characteristics of Japanese ancestry such as black hair, slanted eyes, thick glasses, thin lips and high cheekbones, and also he represents a symbolic person of Japanese-American who are from Japan living and working on west coast at that time. ... On the one hand, destroying letters from the Japan might indicate that the family has some hidden information or secret on them; otherwise, there is no need to do so, and they could even show the FBI these letters to prove that the father is innocent. ... While he could be addressing and naming a speci...

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Emma and Cher are protagonists used to convey the message that selfishness, vanity and prejudice do not advance a person's position in life and nor are these qualities favourably looked upon by others. The character Tai from Clueless is parallel to Harriet from the novel Emma- both are somewhat nave and to some extent innocent but overall, both characters are most certainly impressionable.As responders, we are able to see their naivety in Tai's response to Cher when she tells her that Elton is interested in her, and with the words "She knows nothing herself, and looks upon Emma as k...

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This theme is hammered into the responder's mind, the city, Harry Lavender, Claudia Valentine, Steve Angell, Sally Villos, Mark's seemingly innocent heart attack which in reality was a cowardly murder. ... He talks of the city saying "Its growth and mine are inexplicably linked", this is can also be seen to represent the people in the city that are part of his trail of corruption, as one person is rid off another is brought in, in an endless circle, making the web of characters so complex. ... There are characteristics deliberately written to represent both a certain person as well a...

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Through her writings, she attempts to reach atonement for her incomplete grasp of adult motives and precocious imagination which foreshadowed her mistake of accusing an innocent (and eventually getting him convicted) of an atrocity, for which another, as well as Briony herself, is at fault. ... Quote: "She had never seen men crying beforefrom this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew: that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended" (286-287). ... She can always say she is forgive...

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The distinction between what class and worth representation between a person's class and a person's worth was one of the major ideas in Cervantes's time. ... The Duke and Duchess show that one's true personal honor has nothing to do with the honor typically associated with any person's social position. ... Several even propose that their government should practice restriction to prevent the wicked misjudgments of certain books from corrupting innocent minds such as Don Quixote's. ...

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The arrogant claim by the "more tough and serious" brother, Pedro was "we killed him openly [] but we're innocent' as well as "we're going to kill Santiago Nasar," supports the idea of their self-lust and obligations to restore their sisters' pride. ... Withal, the impacts and consequences of ignoring irregular actions or statements due to own perspectives of people, can lead to the loss of a person through a careless accusation....

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She does an excellent job of pairing the challenges her family has faced being African Americans growing up during the Great Depression with essential life-lessons that are important for every person to understand. ...

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