Chapter 1: #1 a) “Tired old town” (pg. 5) b) “Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing fear but fear itself” (pg. 6) c) “nothing to buy and no money to buy with it” (pg. 6) d) “nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County” (pg. 10) #2 The setting of the story take place in Maycomb County, Alabama, during the […]

English Speech The bildungsroman genre comprises social and psychological maturity of its protagonist. Harper lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Gwen Harwood’s Father and Child poem both are written in bildungsroman genre. The two texts surround the themes of childhood innocence and maturing to reflect upon universal human experiences. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird focuses on the protagonist, Scout, and how moves from a […]

In Harper Lee’s successful novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the author explores the issue of justice using the symbol of a mockingbird with the characters Boo Radley, Tom Robinson and Atticus Finch. Set in the 1930s Deep South, a time of great intolerance and racial inequity. The novel unfolds as an account of injustice to the most gracious yet unjustly accused citizens of the town […]

Over the course of three years, a seemingly quiet town faced the unexpected. A fruitless trial was held, innocence was lost, blood was shed, and an unlikely friend emerged. Written by Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the city of Macomb during the sass. The book tells the story through the childish views of Jean Louse Finch (Scout), as she and her […]

Social Inequality Think of social inequality. Is it fair for people to be ranked and divided simply because of their social status? Maybe you’re thinking of the high school social rankings but it’s more than that. People are being treated according to their social classes by the colour of their skin or their family background or financial status, all aspects that we do not have […]

Harper Lee uses racism in, To Kill a Mockingbird, to show readers the bad outcomes of racist thoughts and ideas. The sentence of life in prison to Tom Robinson, Atticus defending Tom Robinson, and Jem’s thoughts on Black people’s blood are all examples of Harper Lee’s intentions. Racism is the hatred or intolerance of another race and is a theme that is ever present in […]

Dear Diary, Damn I hate school! To be honest “I never looked forward more to anything in my life”, but everything went wrong. My teacher is Ms. Caroline Fisher. I don’t think she’s more than twenty-two. “She … wore a red-and-white-striped dress. She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop ”. She began reading a very funny story about cats that wore clothes. When she […]

To Kill a Mocking Bird “Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking” My considered opinion of this novel in the light of this comment. If Harper Lee had limited her portrayal of prejudice and discrimination merely to the trial of Tom Robinson, a victim of the most virulent form of racial prejudice, “To Kill a Mockingbird” would probably be little […]

To Kill a Mockingbird, numerous symbols and themes are present throughout the novel. Through the good and evil in a town such as Macomb, nobility and courageous were not the easiest attributes to fulfill; however, for Tactics, Gem and Scout, these traits came quite easily with time. As Ambrose Redmond had said, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the Judgment that something […]

“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. ” –Atticus (pg. 30) “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 […]