The novel title "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee is the representation of the most meaningful statement produced in the novel. ... To kill or harm them would be a sin. ... That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." ... Through their actions, they killed a mockingbird. ... The title "To Kill a Mockingbird" played a major part in the lives of Tom Robinson and Arthur Radley, as they were both victims of the sin. ...

• Word Count: 816
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows how prejudice and racism affected black people. ... Miss Maudie says: Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. ... That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird... - 90 Tom Robinson shouldn't die for being a mockingbird, but racists can't look past the color of his skin to see the harmless and innocent mockingbird. ... White Southerners can't see past skin color to distinguish a mockingbird from a guilty person. ...

• Word Count: 433
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

A major theme in To Kill A Mockingbird is racism. ... The setting of To Kill A Mockingbird is a small, southern town in the 1930's. This setting is the most important fictional element that affected the theme of racism in To Kill A Mockingbird. ... The theme of racism in To Kill A Mockingbird was most affected by the old, small, southern town called Maycomb County. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Essay: To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee expertly incorporates a variety of themes into To Kill a Mockingbird. ... Among the themes presented, racism, education, and bravery stand out as the fundamental themes in To Kill a Mockingbird. Racism is the most prominently significant theme in To Kill a Mockingbird. ... Education is also a key theme in To Kill a Mockingbird. ... Bravery, too, is an essential theme in To Kill a Mockingbird. ...

• Word Count: 591
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Harper Lee allows the reader to understand from the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" whether or not most people are "real nice". ... Through Harper Lee's use of symbolism of Tom to the Mockingbird the reader can see his purity and innocence. ... Calpurnia is a character in "To Kill a Mockingbird" whose only fault is her desire to fit into both the white and black society. ... While "most" characters in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" can be classified as "real nice", Bob Ewell is seen as an exception. ... Harper Lee also gives evidence of Mr Ewell being evil when he threatens Atticus "...

• Word Count: 1011
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Robert Mulligan's film classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird" is based on the celebrated novel of the same name, by Harper Lee. ... Much of "To Kill a Mockingbird" takes place in the local courtroom, and it's evident that most of the townspeople have lived a lifetime of deeply ingrained racist hatred. ... For many fans of "To Kill a Mockingbird", Atticus Finch's integrity is a standard to live by. ...

• Word Count: 473
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is set in the 1930's in the little rural county of Maycomb where Atticus Finch and his two children, Jem and Scout live, during a time of racial discrimination. ... Harper Lee's message about fairness in To Kill a Mockingbird is that societies views and actions towards a person, are based on their skin color, who they are, and their personal image. ... The theme of fairness in To Kill a Mockingbird broadens to a further extent than just the situation of racial discrimination between the blacks and the whites. ... These blameless individuals were referred to as...

• Word Count: 1230
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The mockingbird sings for the sake of singing, and an innocent child possesses an innate joyfulness, as natural as instinct. Yet a mockingbird's song dies as easily as innocence. In the beginning of the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout and Jem are portrayed as innocents, uncorrupted by our world of prejudice and racism. ... Jem and Scout's growing up is portrayed by a series of events that shatters their innocence as easily as a mockingbird can be silenced. ... The world was no longer simple, and the mockingbird was dead....

• Word Count: 1230
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Prejudices in To Kill A Mockingbird " As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it "whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash." This was said by Atticus Finch in the book, To Kill A Mockingbird. ...

• Word Count: 419
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• Grade Level: High School

Harper Lee's novel, "To A Mockingbird", deals with these themes and issues. ... Three such characters who face injustice in "To Kill a Mockingbird", by Harper Lee are Mayella Ewell, Atticus Finch, and Dolphus Raymond. ...

• Word Count: 724
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• Grade Level: High School

Racism was an influential part of society in the 1930s' as seen in To Kill a Mockingbird. ... The largest demonstration of this in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird is Tom Robinson, he was guilty the moment that Bob Ewell reported him to the Sheriff Heck Tate. ... The racism in To Kill a Mockingbird was ridiculous, not in the fact that there was so much of it and it was so strong, but in the fact that a community would take the word of a trashy white man over that of a clearly innocent black man; that is what makes it so ridiculous. ... Racism was an influential part of society in the 1930s...

• Word Count: 1244
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the story "To Kill a Mockingbird" I believe that language and selection of detail play a major role in the way the novel is receieved by the majority of readers. ... It is provoked by techniques like these which the authors of novels like "To Kill a Mockingbird" carefully employ. ...

• Word Count: 839
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Critical Essay on "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a fictional story set in a small Southern town, Maycomb, in the early 1930. ... In, To Kill a Mockingbird, the socioeconomic status of the white community is depicted with the Finch family as the upper-class. ... In the seventy years since the fictional scenes in To Kill a Mockingbird took place small steps in the improvement of the race relations might have taken place, but it's not even close to enough. ...

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

Several examples of groups or individuals attempting to perpetuate the status quo of social inequality can be seen in To Kill A Mockingbird and Separate But Equal. ... In the book To Kill A Mockingbird there is the strong belief of any white man over a black man. ... The fears in both To Kill A Mockingbird, and Separate But Equal are not the exactly the same, but kind of have the same effect. ...

• Word Count: 545
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• Grade Level: High School

To Kill A Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee, reflects racial discrimination in Southern America. ... But he said sooner or later, he supposed, the temptation to go after birds would be too much and to shoot all the blue jays I wanted if I could hit them; but to remember, it was a sin to kill a mockingbird" (52). ... Tom Robinson is a mockingbird. ... He does not want to kill him" (125). ... Mayella is also a mockingbird. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Harper Lee's book 'To Kill a Mocking Bird' explores just that. ... Fear in 'To kill a Mockingbird' leads to narrow-mindedness and ignorance. ... The social classes in 'To Kill a Mockingbird" are very distinct. ... To Kill a Mocking Bird is a story about everyone's right to be treated fairly no matter their race, color, background or creed and not blinded by racial prejudice or fear created by others and not placed into social classes. ...

• Word Count: 814
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• Grade Level: High School

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird minor characters are utilised to explore major themes throughout the novel. One of the major themes discussed throughout To Kill a Mockingbird is prejudice. ... Dolphus Raymond demonstrates the theme of prejudice throughout Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. ... Minor characters throughout Harper Lee's To Kill a Micking Bird are used to explore the theme of prejudice. ...

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How does Harper Lee use point of view in To Kill a Mockingbird'? ... To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, is a classic novel set in Alabama that describes the wrongful accusation and conviction of a Negro man named Tom Robinson. ... The two extracts from To Kill a Mockingbird show how Harper Lee has used the point of view of a nave character as narrator to achieve ironic and critical comments about adult society attitudes such as racism and prejudice. ... To kill a Mocking Bird is personal, intimate, and conversational. ...

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To Kill A Mocking BirdTo Kill A Mockingbird "Classic," a term one uses to describe many things, such as a defining moment or an object such as a book. ... One such novel is Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

" In "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, justice is definitely not served. ... Overall, in "To Kill a Mockingbird," justice is nonexistent, especially towards those who lack resources such as money, people who lack the right skin color, and people who are mentally unstable. ...

• Word Count: 703
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• Grade Level: High School

The theme with the most impact in 'To Kill a Mockingbird" is Prejudice. Prejudice is "a judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts." Throughout the novel, there were many incidents, but two of them stood out the more than others. These are the teachings ...

• Word Count: 656
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• Grade Level: High School

Prejudice in to Kill a Mockingbird Prejudice is arguably the most prominent theme of the novel. ... It is a sin' to harm an innocent (mockingbird). ... Symbolism - Mockingbird is the most significant symbol in the novel. ... Mockingbird is a type of Finch (family name significant: Atticus could view the Mockingbirds as part of his family that he ought to protect). First shown in Chpt 10 where Atticus says "shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird- (symbol for Mr Ewell?). ...

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

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, I as a reader am able to extend the boundaries of my understanding of the issues and characters in this and other novels. ... Therefore the statement "The value of reading is that is allows us to extend the boundaries of our understanding" is completely true as the novel To Kill a Mockingbird has done exactly that to me and I have gained knowledge on several universal and unifying themes present in this novel. ...

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Harper Lee's novel, "To Kill A Mockingbird," contains many examples of prejudice and discrimination towards women, children, people of dark skin, and family backgrounds. ... "'You goddamn whore, I'll kill ya.'" ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A trial is the examination before a court of the facts or laws in a case in order to determine that case. It is the act of testing or proving by experience or use. In the novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" a black man, Tom Robinson, was accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell, and was brought to t...

• Word Count: 790
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School