An assessment of the symbol of the mockingbird in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee Atticus advises his children one day that if they go hunting for birds to "shoot all the blue jays [they] want, if you can hit'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird"...

Tom Robinson and Boo Radley, Maycomb's MockingbirdsIn the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the two characters Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are much like the Mockingbird, harmless yet destroyed. Boo and Tom were such sad characters that they kept to themselves and shied from the public eye....

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD One of the major masterpieces of American literature, To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee originally as a love story, was published in 1960 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961. It also won an Academy Award when it was later made into a film starring Gregory Peck. The stor...

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...

In To Kill A Mockingbird many themes are exposed. A main character, Tom Robinson, identifies with the theme injustice. Tom Robinson was wrongly convicted of rape. Another person that identifies with the theme injustice, in reality, is Rodney King. Rodney King did not see his attackers receive the...

"It is a sin to kill a mockingbird because they do nothing but make music for us to enjoy." In Harper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus says the above quote to basically sum up one of the major themes of the book. To Atticus, a mockingbird is a harmless bird that makes the world a more plea...

To Kill A MockingbirdTo Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, was set in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. It was the 1930's, merely after the Great Depression. There was a lot of segregation and racism of blacks. Many of the families struggled for money. The fortunate people of Maycomb had cars, but most ...

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird the many facets of prejudice are demonstrated. The book is an excellent study of human nature and attitudes toward various groups and ideas. The "old south" Alabama mind-set is seen through the innocent eyes of two children and their untainted ...

Tolerance/IntoleranceIn To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there was tolerance and intolerance from the people of Maycomb County towards different races. Harper Lee shows us the type of intolerance in the novel. She also shows us signs of hope in the plot and characterization.There were types of...

The Impact of Bigotry on the Altercations in To Kill a MockingbirdIn the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, the setting impacted on most of the actions taken by the major characters. Specifically, the altercations between the major characters were a direct result of the beliefs held by th...

A child's view of life can seem mysterious, joyful, magical, and at times confusing. This applies to Scout Finch, the narrator of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird. At the beginning of the novel the reader is introduced to the characters who inhabit Scout's town; the mysterious Boo Radley who lives...

Mayella Ewell is an engaging character in the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. She, like many others, has some good and some bad qualities about her. She is also a very pathetic character. She is a great importance to this story. The Ewell family is a disgrace to Maycomb. The eldest chil...

In the widely known novel To Kill A Mockingbird there are two families that are very diverse and are text book examples of complete opposites on the moral ladder of success. The Cunninghams and the Ewells have two very distinct and opposite reputations. The Cunninghams which are very respected while...

Prejudice Issues in To Kill a Mockingbird The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird contains many aspects of modern day prejudice. Although the book contains many forms of prejudice I believe that three played the largest role in this story. The main prejudice is the act of racism, which was very common i...

The mockingbird's true identity is unheard of. It is never itself, as it is always emulating another creature. However, the fact that the mockingbird's ways differ from other birds is no reason to kill it. In truth, is it not innocent, as it never actually causes harm to anyone? It is ...

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRDOne of the major masterpieces of American literature, To Kill A Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee originally as a love story, was published in 1960 and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961. It also won an Academy Award when it was later made into a film starring Gregory Peck. The stor...

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, symbolism is the key literary device. Symbolism is when one thing stands for another. It is a sin to kill a mockingbird. This is because mockingbirds do not harm anything, they just sing to you. The mockingbird symbolized both Tom Robinson and...

To Kill a Mockingbird In the mid 1900s there were many types of families. Some families cared not about what other people thought about what they did, but about if it seemed right to them. Other families did not care what people thought nor did they try to behave descent. And still the fami...

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing there hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mocking bird"(Miss Maudie, pg.90). Harper Lee, author of the novel "To Kill a Mockin...

Racism is the belief in which ethnic groups account for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. This belief has been a part of the human race ever since people are born, racism is slowly fading, but people cannot that say all do not express it. T...

To Kill A Mockingbird - Chapters 18-19 Summary Mayella testifies next, a reasonably clean nineteen-year- old girl who is obviously terrified. She says that she called Tom Robinson inside the fence that evening and offered him a nickel to break up a dresser for her, and that once he got insi...

The book To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is a magnificent story about guilt, fairness, race relations, and about life itself. It is told in the eyes of an already mature six-year old girl named Jean-Louise Finch, "Scout" for short. In the midst of the story "Scout" and her older brother Jeremy...

Written in the late 1920s To Kill A Mockingbird is one of our most favourite classics. Written by Harper Lee, born in Monroeville, Alabama, Was a person who was brought up in a very law orientated family with her father being a lawyer, she eventually studied law. She portrays the ideas of symboli...

The most important theme of the 1960 Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird is author Harper Lee's tenacious exploration of the moral nature of people. Lee tenaciously explores the moral nature of human beings, especially the struggle in every human soul between discrimination...

In the early 1930's, a land of sheer bigotry existed in the small American county of Maycomb. Following the stock market crash of 1929, the civil rights ruling for black slaves was not welcomed openly by many in the American state of Alabama. Anger rose from people already in financial ruin. The 193...