The story is told through the eyes of a young, adventurous girl, Scout, giving the novel an innocent and uncorrupted perspective of the society. ... Mockingbirds later become the symbol of victims of prejudice and innocent people who are outcasted and ridiculed due to the flaws of society. ... Most of the county did not view Tom as a person and, therefore, did not feel sorry for his unjust death. ... The kids try and lure Boo out of his home and soon learn some things about him as a person. ... He teaches the reader to not judge someone without getting to know them, or else they may be an inno...

• Word Count: 1674
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography

Another lesson is that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird, in other words, to harm the innocent. ... She was the bravest person I ever knew. ... Another key lesson learned in childhood is to not harm the innocent. ... They are taught by Atticus to not shoot innocent beings or animals. ... Harming innocent people is a mistake because they have not hurt anything. ...

• Word Count: 1536
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Others say that courage is a person with a strong heart. ... Importantly, Atticus doesn't put so much effort into Tom's case because he's an African American, but because he is innocent. Atticus feels that the justice system should be color blind, and he defends Tom as an innocent man, not a man of color. ... Atticus knows that Tom is innocent and has nothing to do with anything the Ewell family is accusing him of raping Mayella. ... Therefore, Atticus Finch is a courageous person. ...

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

Radley locked Boo inside their house for years, not speaking to a single person outside of his home. ... Dill is another innocent character that enjoys his childlike adventures and imagination, but yet he is a neglected child. ... He is also an innocent kid, only four years older than Scout, that enjoys playing imaginary games, but is forced to grow up quickly with all the lessons that Atticus has taught him in order to grow up to be a lawyer like him. ... However, they are just kids, making them innocent and easy prey for the rest of the town to pick on. Scout is an innocent girl who is only...

• Word Count: 1638
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

This is fed by: wwbg bgw esbgbgs aybg bgba nbg kcbg bguk; Fear - Children are frightened of Boo Radley; an outsider to society whom they have never seen Rumour - Children have heard rumours from Miss Stephanie and other children about Boo Superstition - Views such as ghosts and stories they have been told whilst growing up feed their fears of Boo When the children mature and realise that Boo is a real person, capable of suffering like everyone else, the prejudice dies. ... It is a sin' to harm an innocent (mockingbird). ... Repeated image of an innocent creature to form a str...

• Word Count: 1462
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

The book follows the story of a mean and ignorant white man who falsely accuses an innocent black man of raping his daughter, purely to uphold his own family's values in the community as racists. The laws and culture of the Jim Crow South make it possible for a jury to have full confidence that although a black man is innocent, he will still get convicted. ... The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience' "(120) Atticus is saying that one has to judge oneself before anyone else. ... Democracy may determine how a group will act, but it cann...

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

Sympathy is defined as the feeling of pity for a person. ... Every person is entitled to feel loved. ... Mayella has bruises on her right side of her face meaning a left handed person has hit her. ... They are adamant that he is innocent but refuse to acquit him because of their prejudice. ... Tom Robinson is an innocent man who loses his life simply because he is black in a town with immense racial tension. ...

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

His daughter scoffs at the penniless Walter, but Atticus maintains that he is a person, just like anyone else. ... Atticus believes Tom is innocent of the dreadful crime of which he is accused and is unbiased by the fact that he is black. ... She was the bravest person I ever knew.? ... Although it is vital that a truly heroic person be principled, simply to have such standards is not enough. ... In conclusion, a true hero is a person who must be principled, determined, and a teacher to others, among other things. ...

• Word Count: 1341
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Atticus Finch says that 'you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it' (Lee 39) and he could not be more correct. ... Although he is truly innocent, he is still proven guilty. ... Tom Robinson is judged in court on a crime which he did not commit, but as students have learned, during such a time period, black men and women were never proved innocent, because of their race. ...

• Word Count: 1863
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird has remained enormously popular since its publication in 1960. Recalling her experiences as a six-year-old from an adult perspective, Jean Louise Finch, nicknamed "Scout," describes the circumstances involving her widowed father, Atticus, and ...

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

To kill a Mocking Bird could be considered a reliable and unexaggerated portrait of southern American's prejudice because the author Harper Lee based Maycomb the setting for the book and the character Atticus. On the real place and people. Monroeville and Harper Lee's farther who was a lawyer. Monro...

• Word Count: 1707
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

To kill a Mocking Bird could be considered a reliable and unexaggerated portrait of southern American's prejudice because the author Harper Lee based Maycomb the setting for the book and the character Atticus. On the real place and people. Monroeville and Harper Lee's farther who was a lawyer. Monro...

• Word Count: 1688
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

You rarely win, but sometimes you doShe was the bravest person I ever knew" (pg. 149). ... He appealed to the judge, jury and audience by presenting his defense on how Tom was wrongly accused and why he is innocent. ...

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