Cunningham is not the only person from To Kill a Mockingbird that has a real life counterpart like Thomas Jefferson. Aunt Alexandra is another character from To Kill a Mockingbird that has a real world counterpart; although Aunt Alexandra is seen as an “evil person” she also has her fair share of characteristics we see in a “good person” as in the way she sees and cares about people. Jem and Scout are walking home one day and upon arriving at home, they see their Aunt Alexandra sitting on the porch. When
Atticus Finch 's (Atticus) moral values stand out from everyone else 's in Maycomb. Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a multitude of characters influence and radiate their moral values to other people in the novel and to the reader. Moral values are not just things other people believe in, they build on who they are, just like Atticus. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, taking place during the Great Depression, sets the tone of the townsfolk in Maycomb. As racism runs throughout
society. Scout, the narrator of Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, exhibits what life is like for a naive girl maturing in the racist town of Maycomb, Alabama. Through Scout’s eyes and Harper Lee’s voice, multiple cases of social injustice, primarily racism, are exhibited via excellent use of irony, symbolism, and humor. Irony - the use of phrases that contradict one another - is evident throughout most of the book. In chapter thirteen, Aunt Alexandra (the elitist and stubborn sister of Atticus)
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, is set in the 1960’s, a time when men and women had specific and restrictive roles in society. Men were the ones to work and earn money for their families and women were expected to a caring and obedient homemakers. In many ways, those gender stereotypes are still very present today. The contrasting opinions of Atticus Finch and Aunt Alexandra provide the reader with the different views on how men and women should be raised, which in turn, affects the readers thoughts
Mandela “To Kill A Mockingbird” is a novel written by Harper Lee which was first published in 1960. The novel took place in the early 1930s during the era of the Great Depression in the small southern town of Maycomb, Alabama. The novel is narrated from the perspective of a six - nine year old girl named Jean Louise (“Scout”) Finch. Scout is the daughter of Atticus Finch, who is a white lawyer who was asked to defend Tom Robinson, who is a black man accused of raping a white woman. To kill a mockingbird
“To Kill a Mocking Bird” by Harper Lee is a novel set in a small town of Maycomb, in Alabama. It was written in 1960, while the book’s time period was set in the 1930’s during the Depression. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is narrated by a little girl named Jean Louise or Scout Finch. She is a little girl that has strong opinions, who is rowdy, and loves her family and friends. There many characters in the book “To kill a Mockingbird”. Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, is a white southern lawyer with high
Killing a mockingbird is a sin in many cultures because of the animal’s innocent nature; in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird she immaculately illustrates this. To Kill a Mockingbird is about the Finch family, which consists of: Scout (Jean), Atticus, Calpurnia, and Aunt Alexandra. They reside in the modest town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. The father of the family, Atticus, is defending a colored person, Tom Robinson, in a court case regarding rape. In turn, this affects Atticus’ children
Fifty Shades of Feathers Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. Graham Greene Growing up is tough. It does not matter whether it is physical or mental; change is always tough. It is stressful to move to a new school, to start a diet, to believe that yes, that person indeed won the national elections and not the other whom all sociological agencies predicted would be the final winner. Adaptation has never been a strong side of mankind. People are just not fond of the fact they need
There is no doubt that things have changed since 1929 to now. Some things have gotten better, somethings have gotten worse and somethings have stayed the same such as how we view people by their race, gender or class. In the book (To Kill a Mockingbird) by Harper Lee, it displays how life was for two white children named Jem and Scout during the Great Depression, and all their experiences with racism and discrimination. In the book, Atticus, the children’s father is ordered to defend a colored man
The Portrayal of ‘Relative Justice’ in To Kill a Mockingbird The correlation of justice and prejudice dwell as a perpetuating conflict in the United States. Case in point is racism, which is deeply analyzed on the 1960 Pulitzer-awarded novel, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee focalizes this novel upon the trial of Tom Robinson, a black man charged by the rape of a white girl, Mayella Ewell. Racial prejudice is thoroughly presented in the novel, but what originally transpired as discrimination