To Kill a Mockingbird In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the story unfolds through the eyes of a six-year-old girl named Scout. The story takes place in the small southern town of Maycomb, Alabama during the early 1900s where prejudice was at its peak. Miss Harper Lee has chosen Sco...

The story of To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Depression, and is narrated by the main character, a little girl named Scout Finch. Scout's father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer. She and her brother, Jem, and their friend Dill are intrigued by the l...

To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee Four Themes Essay There are many themes in this book, but there are four immediate themes that spring to mind. They are: Growing up Courage Symbolism and Prejudice To Kill A Mockingbird is about the narrator's growth of awareness. It belongs to ...

To Kill A Mockingbird: DiscriminationDiscrimination has been generalized, for well over a century, as any harsh words directed at another race. This is merely the facade of discrimination though. Discrimination can be embodied in a variety of ways. A man's creed, his or her color of skin, musical or...

Analyzing Themes of To Kill A MockingbirdHarper Lee's first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, displays the life of a small southern family struggling through the depression in Maycomb, Alabama. Similar to any other southern town, the prejudiced whites look down upon the Negroes. The family overcomes man...

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a perennial favorite of high school students because the story includes many issues people deal with in their own life and that they can associate with. Scout, the narrator, grows up and matures throughout the story just as the readers have through their lives....

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, numerous issues such as racism, discrimination, and social classes are explored. The story is set in the small southern American town of Maycomb in the 1930's, where most of the population shared similar ideas on such issues. These ideas are ex...

Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a heartfelt tale, focusing on the lives of two children living in a small community with lots of racial prejudice, class distinction and gossip. Harper Lee chose Maycomb, a small town in Alabama, as the setting to her story at a time in the 1930s when black...

In Harper Lee's novel "To kill a Mockingbird" she takes and leads many themes into an unforgettable story during the time period of the 1930's. Three main themes that are, heavily shown and presented are the themes of Racism, growing up and Love. The themes of growing up and love...

To Kill a Mockingbird By: Harper Lee To Kill a Mocking Bird is based in about 1935, right in the middle of the depression. It is set in a small town in Alabama called Maycomb. Maycomb, like most small southern towns, has a problem with widespread racism toward Negroes. The novel focuses on on...

AtticusHatred: to detest or loathe. How can this textbook definition even begin to describe true hatred? In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Atticus' idea of prejudice does not define the harsh reality of the hatred that exists in Maycomb County. Atticus believed that if even one per...

Society has always wanted to believe moral education can change the world and by educating our children "correctly", one day we all might get along. Although these are reasonable and nice sounding thoughts, they will probably never come true. This is the message portrayed to me in the nov...

1) Does Scout like school? What are specific reasons behind her feelings? In my opinion, Scout does not like school. Firstly, Scout greatly values spending time with her father reading books. And School almost took that away from her and at a time, she was greatly upset. This made her so upset t...

"How does To Kill a Mockingbird show the different forms of Prejudice that existed in the Southern States of America?"Prejudice is a problem still faced by people today, it is the victimisation of people who are different to the majority in some way. These people are discriminated against and treat...

Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Alabama. She studied law at the University of Alabama and then started to write.To Kill a Mockingbird? is her first novel. It was at once unanimously acclaimed by most critics, it won the Pulitzer Prize and some other awards, and was even filmed in 1962. In this book ...