Books Essays

Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is set in the American Deep South in the mid-thirties. The story takes place in the small town of Maycomb in the state of Alabama, between 1933 and 1935. Through the young eyes of Jem and Scout Finch, we see Maycomb as a …

‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is set in the mid-1930s in Maycomb, a very prejudiced and inward looking town. Discuss the ways in which Atticus stands up as a man of reason and courage within this very traditional and backward looking environment. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is written by Harper Lee. …

Prejudice is the most prominent theme in ‘To kill a mockingbrid’, and it occurs in many different forms throughout the novel. In this essay, I am going to disscuss how the theme of prejudice is explored in the novel, what forms this prejudice takes, and how the prejudice is related …

To what extent does Harper Lee’s ‘To kill a mockingbird’ illustrate the prejudice of the deep south in the 1930’s’. Maycomb is a town full of rules and regulations, to break one of these ‘expected codes’ is looked upon with upon with disgust. People in Maycomb are deeply engrossed in …

Harper Lee, the author of the compelling novel, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,’ created the town of Maycomb and placed it in the southern sate of Alabama. The novel set in the 1930’s some 70 years after the civil war had been fought and lost and slavery was abolished, the black …

To Kill A Mockingbird involves numerous different points. The way the author has composed her novel has ensured that some parts contain ‘optimistic’ points and other parts are ‘pessimistic.’ For example large parts of the book are based on racism. This point alone is thought to be pessimistic however, some …

Pip grew up south of the river Thames in Kent. He lived in a small village and he was incredibly poor. He lived with his sister and her husband, who is a blacksmith, due to his parents had an unfortunate deaths. Pip presumed that he was also going to be …

“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.” This is how the novel written by Harper Lee in the 1930s starts, this awkward beginning grabs our attention before introducing us to the horrendous conditions in the 1930s. Lee offers us an awkward …

Daisy and Gatsby fell in love before he left for the war in 1917. Gatsby had lied to try to impress the girl he found so charming and elegant, and it worked. Daisy promised to wait for his return. However, two years later, desperate for someone to love her, she …

* Nick, is the narrator of this story. Every single episode is described as he sees it. This can be seen by the usage of the first person when Nick expresses himself “In my younger and…” (page 1). * As Nick explains us in the first chapter, he is from …