(Lee 61) Early in the novel Scout and Jem are very close. ... She has feelings for a boy. ... (Novels for Students volume two 293). In the Novel, Scout and Jem have no prejudice feelings until they see how white people treat the blacks during the trial. ... Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a depiction of the wrongful conviction of an innocent black man, the suffering thrust upon one family and forced two children to grow up. ...

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The novel is set in the 1930's, a time when racism was very prevalent. ... Lee addresses many of these feelings in her novel. ... The words "nigger", "darkie", and "boy" are seen often throughout the book. ... Throughout the novel, we see each separate person and his personal narrow-mindedness. ... In this novel, we see a black man put on trial for a crime he clearly did not commit. ...

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Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird has remained enormously popular since its publication in 1960. ... 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. ... As a strongly principled, liberal lawyer who defends a wrongly accused black man, Atticus represents a role model for moral and legal justice. ... A...

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Thus, the reader views the events of the novel through an unbiased and innocent lens, and perceives the transition of the two children – Jem and Scout – from innocence to maturity, making the novel a bildungsroman. The first chapter of the novel weaves into the plot the background of the Finch household in such a way that it not only provides the reader with an in depth introduction to them, but also establishes the time frame for the novel. ... Similarly, Calpurnia was another device used by Lee to act as a link between the 'whites' and the 'blacks'. ... R...

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In a novel such as To Kill a Mockingbird, it is hard to sympathize with any characters due to the animosity and racial tension between the Maycomb inhabitants. ... 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.... The novel To Kill a Mockingbird proves that one can be worthy of sympathy even with mistakes they make and their human imperfections....

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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus is a very courageous character, Atticus tried every way to help others were in the need of it. ... 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). ... As Atticus cross examines Mayella, part of what he does is to prove that Tom Robinson could not have hit her on the right side of her face, as his left hand had been ma...

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• Grade Level: High School