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…“How Annandale Went Out,” by Edwin Arlington Robinson, and “My Last Duchess,” by Robert Browning, are poems about killings. The killings in each poem, however, are completely different. Robinson’s poem is about euthanasia, while Browning’s is about…

…The Killing by Stanley Kurbrick (1956) is a crime thriller with a twist. An ex-con by the name of Johnny Clay has planned the perfect robbery. He uses inside men and various well timed distractions so he can clean out the local racetrack’s money…

…Scout is presented as the opposite of a Southern belle in To Kill A Mockingbird. Although Aunt Alexandria wants Scout to be like her, Scout still takes after her father, Atticus. We can pretty much predict what Scout will be like when she's older. She…

…into the judge's house, and finally attacks Jem and Scout as they walk home from a Halloween party. Boo Radley intervenes, however, saving the children and accidentally killing Ewell in the struggle. After carrying the wounded Jem home and sitting with Scout for a while…

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…To Kill a Mockingbird "Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing…

…<Tab/>The two novels "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "A Time to Kill" both portray accounts of gruesome racial discrimination in 18th century America and the heroic acts of some white Americans who endangered their own lives to confront…

…of the society as a whole. The fact that no one realized the unfair treatment of Tom Robinson made his death that much more tragic. In To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee uses the mockingbird symbolize of Tom and Boo. Boo Radley is an outcast in the neighborhood, and Lee…

…“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…