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. ... The quote also displays how Dolphus understands how the community thinks. ... This quote highlights the true roots of Aunt Alexandra's judgment. ...

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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. ... The way that females were talked to was also very different from today's society. "'You goddamn whore, I'll kill ya.'" ... One racial quote in the book comes from Mrs. ... From the novel we learn a good lesson. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee (Setting) The setting is important in the story because the whole story grows out of the particular back ground. ... Black people were not allowed to use the same rest rooms or drink from the same water fountain. ... Atticus, a lawyer as well as Scout's father, says about the justice system, " when it is a white man against a black man, the white man always wins " this quote explains how unfair the court was to Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping a white woman with not much proof but just the fact that he is black. ... Part of this comes fro...

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Along with many other literary works, Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee prove this statement true. ... In the novels Frankenstein and To Kill A Mockingbird, the monster and Tom Robinson are similar because neither of them is granted the simple request for justice. ... Because of the monster's ugliness, he is rejected from society and feared by many. ... Tom Robinson, in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, is also greatly mistreated for something beyond his control. ... Justice is proven to be uncommon among those who differ from society....

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The Heroism of Atticus Finch: Essay The racism which was prevalent in many small American towns in the 1930s is expertly illustrated in Harper Lee's classic novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. ... Even the title of the novel reflects Atticus's principles; he will not shoot a mockingbird nor condone anyone else who does so, because mockingbirds do nothing but sing beautiful songs for us, and it is wrong to kill such a bird. ... This quote from the book sums up his feelings on the matter, as he makes his final address to the court: ?..... The following quote from the courtroom clearly s...

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The novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee has numerous accounts of racism and prejudice throughout the entire piece. ... This particular quote shows how far ahead Atticus was at this time. ... If they have something that someone else can't afford but they want, they think that they would steal from them to get it. ...

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In the novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird ", prejudice is portrayed heavily during Tom Robinson's trial. ... "I have nothing but pity in my heart for the chief witness for the state she has merely broken a rigid ad time-honored code of our society she is a victim of cruel poverty and ignorance " This quote gets the audience to forgive and sympathize with Mayella's "crimes ", this excluding Tom Robinson from this case. ... An example of logos, or logical reasoning, is seen when Atticus objectively declares a lack of evidence of Tom Robinson's charges. " state hasn't produced one...

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• 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. ... The lynch mob were a group of men that threatened to take the law in their own hands and got together to kill Tom Robinson before his trial. ... 'Hey, Mr Cunningham' she says singling him out from the group. ... The blacks are also segregated in the courtroom as they sit in the balcony further away from the court scene. ... His children are teased at school and the lad...

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• 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. ... The lynch mob were a group of men that threatened to take the law in their own hands and got together to kill Tom Robinson before his trial. ... 'Hey, Mr Cunningham' she says singling him out from the group. ... The blacks are also segregated in the courtroom as they sit in the balcony further away from the court scene. ... His children are teased at school and the lad...

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