Scout describes her feelings about a friend that she and Jem both share. ... She has feelings for a boy. ... They question their father Atticus as to why the white people do not like the black people. ... As the trial progresses they, mostly Scout, begin to question Atticus more about why people are treating the blacks the way they do, and why they treat Atticus the way they do. ... Scout is offended by this and inquires about this to her father. ...

• Word Count: 1479
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Maycomb actively practices segregation, consequently exhibiting racism against blacks. ... He believes that despite a person's personality, morality, integrity, or lack thereof, white people are always above black people, and he fought for discrimination against blacks until the very end. ... Did it ever strike you that Judge Taylor naming Atticus to defend that boy was no accident? ... As Scout says about the editorial he published in his newspaper about the trial and Tom's murder, "Mr. ... White people in a black church are just as out of place as black people in a white churc...

• Word Count: 1682
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She is aware that it is intolerable for her to try and seduce a black man. ... Tom Robinson is a very respectable and humble black man. ... Radley's boy was not seen again for fifteen years.... " (16) This is one of many very rude remarks made about him. It is very ignorant to say things about somebody based on assumptions. ...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

When Atticus was asked to defend Tom Robinson, a black man accused for raping a white woman, people in Maycomb started to talk about it. ... Not every man could put aside everything he has ever been taught his whole life, and represent a black man like Atticus did(Lee). ... Atticus strongly wants do the legal action about Bob Ewell's death. He doesn't want his boy starting out with something like this over his head. ... He doesn't want Jem to grow up and hearing gossips about him. ...

• Word Count: 1521
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

There is nothing admirable about sitting quietly or walking away from brewing conflict. ... Cecil Jacobs, a boy Scout attends school with, is one of the many children to torment and condemn Scout and her brother Jem in regards to Atticus's decision. Atticus remains firm about his stance on the issue despite the adversity he knows he must endure because of this. ... Regardless of this final outcome, the message about Atticus's courage and integrity remains constant because he made the effort. ... Maudie notes Atticus's influence in the community by saying, "did it ever strik...

• Word Count: 2284
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The black community is represented first by the Finch's maid, Calpurnia. ... One thing that impressed me about Reverend Skyes was that he never described himself or his congregation with the word "nigger/s". ... Lastly, Tom Robinson is the married, handicapped character that attended Purchase Church since he was a boy and worked for Mr. ... It came down to the word of the "poor-white trash" Ewell family against an upstanding black citizen. ... Bush - refused an invitation to visit Jasper to speak about the racial murder because he did not want to offend the Christian Coalition and othe...

• Word Count: 1892
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

One summer when the children were playing in their tree house, they noticed a little boy sitting in the garden. The boy's name was Dill. ... It was pitch black and neither of them could see anything. ... Her father asked about Jem. ... We talk for about a half hour and the woman was very nice. ...

• Word Count: 1409
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Scout and Jem meet and befriend seven-year-old Dill Harris, a boy who has arrived in Maycomb to stay with his aunt for the summer. ... Despite this, Atticus's defense of Tom is unpopular in the white community, and Scout and Jem find themselves taunted at school due to their father's defense of a black man. ... When the trial begins, Atticus tries to protect his children from the anger and prejudice they would hear; however, Scout, Jem, and Dill sneak into the courtroom and sit in the balcony with the black community. ... The children's attitudes about Boo, for example, represen...

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

Further, Scout talks about several families like they were clans with distinct and fixed identities. ... He was the one who renewed Jem and Scout's curiosity about Boo Radley and the Radley Place in general and set the plot of the novel in motion. Similarly, Calpurnia was another device used by Lee to act as a link between the 'whites' and the 'blacks'. ... Harper Lee also points at the superstitious nature of the people of Maycomb through Scout's description of the stories that she had heard about the Radley Place. ... Radley's boy was not seen again for f...

• Word Count: 1323
• Approx Pages: 5