To Kill A Mockingbird Essays

Write about: What she learns from different people and events. How the writer shows Scout’s education. Answer: Scout is a very clever girl for her age. She seems to understand some thing that adults don’t. But she does act her age most of the times. At the start of the …

In her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, examines various themes very closely, however, one of the more dominant themes is that of prejudice. I shall be arguing that Harper Lee conveys her ideas, about this theme, in a very effective and persuasive manner. Several of the characters in …

Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ was written in the 1960s, but set in the 1930s. It was set during the height of the Great Depression, and also where racism within communities in Southern USA was part of every day life. This is addressed within the theme of prejudice within …

When I came home from school, I found Scout with a wad in her mouth. I asked her where she had got it from. “I found it.” “Don’t eat things you find, Scout.” Honestly, it could have been anywhere. “This wasn’t on the ground, it was in a tree.” Which …

‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ and ‘Great Expectations’ are two novels written in Bildungsroman. That is they are both novels that describe a character’s childhood to adulthood. Also both of these are fictional-biographies, which mean that they are both made up character’s lives. ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ is set …

To Kill a Mock bird exposes the contrasting types of father figures children can have, Harper Lee created two conflicting fathers, Atticus Finch and Bob Ewell. Atticus is a man governed by a strong set of morals, a man who epitomises justice, equality and the preservation of an equal, fair …

Throughout the novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee we see Atticus Finch from many different aspects such as a father, a neighbour, a lawyer and as a human being. Atticus is a widow who has brought up his two children Scout and Jem with his housemaid Calpurnia in …

Atticus Finch is the father of Scout and Jem and is a lawyer in the Deep South of America in the nineteen thirties in a town called Maycomb. His family have lived in Maycomb for three generations and own a small cotton plantation called Finch’s landing. Atticus is a respectable …

Symbolism is an important aspect in this novel. Harper Lee was writing in the 1950s, a time when racial tension in America was an important social issue. She said that Maycomb is a ‘microcosm of America’ at that time. She grew up in a town called Monroeville in the 1930s. …

Harper Lee was born in 1926 and lived in a small, under populated county in Southwest Alabama called Monroeville, (Maycomb is a fictional representation of Monroeville) her father was a lawyer (like Atticus) and served the state legislature for 12 years. Lee was the youngest of 3 children (like Scout). …