Major Themes Good and Evil To Kill a Mockingbird is an exploration of human morality and presents a constant conversation regarding the inherent goodness or evilness of people Atticus father of Scout and Jem also plays the role of teacher for his children and his town Atticus believes that people usually contain aspects of both good and evil but that good will usually prevail Atticus teaches this to his children but also to the town as he works to defend Tom Robinson an innocent black man accus
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows many symbols that depict society Based in the 1930s racial prejudice was a huge part of everyday life The symbol of the snowman can be seen as mixing both races together while the symbol of the mockingbird can be seen as segregation from those who are different Both of these major symbols give depth to the novel and help people see problems of the time The theme of prejudice in the novel can best be perceived through the symbol of the mockingb
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Scout learns valuable lessons on the evil of prejudice present in her Southern town of Maycomb on the true nature of courage and on the dangers of judging others before climbing into their skin and walking around in it Set in the mid 1930s Scout Finch is a young girl living with her older brother Jem and her lawyer father Being a kid Scout has the simple duties of a minor to have fun and to stay out of trouble But along the way she also learns many important t
To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 although it portrayed certain behaviors of people in the 1930s According to To Kill a Mocking Bird The novel replays three key years in the life of scout finch the young daughter of an Alabama towns principled lawyer Scouts narrative relates how she and her elder brother Jem learn about fighting prejudice and upholding humane dignity through the example of her father 1960 The novel begins with Scout as a grown women and she is reflecting on her childh
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee like many others of its genre is strongly influenced by the ideas of its author With this book Lee has represented her commentaries with symbols or metaphors although these can sometimes be overlooked too easily in a lengthy novel The characters she has employed to convey or be subjected to these ideas are referred to as the mockingbirds of the book Her ideas of who they are and how they should be treated are manifested in this lesson to the childre
In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston the main character Janie goes through a series of different relationships with three very different men As time goes by and her husbands change she starts learning more and more about herself In the beginning of the story she has no confidence and hardly knows how to live her life but by the end of the story she is strong minded and pleased with the way her life turned out Before she knew how her life was going to turn out Janie wa
Context The most influential writer in all of English literature William Shakespeare was born in 1564 to a successful middle class glove maker in Stratford upon Avon England Shakespeare attended grammar school but his formal education proceeded no further In 1582 he married an older woman Anne Hathaway and had three children with her Around 1590 he left his family behind and traveled to London to work as an actor and playwright Public and critical acclaim quickly followed and Shakespeare eventu
In The Stranger Albert Camus portrays Meursault the books narrator and main character detached and unemotional He does not think much about events or their consequences or does he express much feeling in relationships or during emotional times He displays emotionless throughout the book in his reactions to the people and events in the book After his mothers death he sheds no tears he seems to show no emotion He displays limited feelings for his girlfriend Marie Cardona and shows no remorse at a
The Red Badge of Courage Summary During the Civil War a Union regiment rests along a riverbank where it has been camped for weeks A tall soldier named Jim Conklin spreads a rumor that the army will soon march Eventually word gets to Henry Fleming a recent recruit with this 304th Regiment who is struggling to find his courage because he fears that if he were to see battle he might run Yet ironically the narrator reveals that Henry joined the army because he was drawn to the glory of military con
Fighting For His Life Ordinarily if one annihilates a multi million dollar edifice especially one built to house the downtrodden poor the culprit will undoubtedly face severe penalties and jail time However Howard Roark Ayn Rands embodiment of what man can and ought to be dynamites a housing project that he himself designed known as Cortlandt Homes and receives no punishment and rightly so In the novel The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Howard Roark appears as the main character as well as what many