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…in deciding how they live their life. This is also true in Harper Lee’s To Kill A mockingbird, a book focused on Jem and Scout Finch, two young children trying to survive through childhood in Maycomb, a 1930’s town that can be everything but sensitive to others…

…, as this quote shows. 8. “‘I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can’t hit them, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.’” (p 99) We can see that Atticus accepts simple…

…John F. Kennedy, George Washington, and Martin Luther King, Jr. were all noble, patient, and modest men. They were famous for all the great things they did. In Harper Lee's inspirational novel To Kill A Mockingbird, one sees Atticus Finch as one…

…Education: Not Only Taught at School "Education!" Back in the earlier day's education was somewhat hard to get in the classrooms. Most folks received their education from their parents. In this story, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus, Scout…

…student because she is different from other students. All of these problems and conflicts share a common root: close-mindedness. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee condemns this close-mindedness, the intolerance of differences within others, in a Southern…

…One of the principal aims of To Kill a Mockingbird is to subject the narrator to a series of learning experiences and then observe how much she profits from her experiences. There is rarely a chapter that does not teach Scout something new or does…

…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…

…To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel rifle with references of racial prejudice and injustice. The South has never been a bastion for racial equality, and still can be seen by some to harbor the last vestiges of bigotry. Harper Lee does a great job…

…The story of To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama in the Depression, and is narrated by the main character, a little girl named Scout Finch. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer with high moral standards. She and her brother, Jem…

…Hatred: 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…