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    To Kill a Mockingbird In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ many characters in the book demonstrate bravery. Three good examples are Atticus Finch‚ Tom Robinson‚ and Dolphus Raymond. Atticus Finch was brave for defending a Negro in court because he knew it was the right thing to do. The Negro’s name was Tom Robinson. Tom gets accused of raping a young woman and shows bravery by telling the truth in front of a court house of whites. Dolphus Raymond likes to be known as the town drunk‚ but many

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    To Kill a Mockingbird “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee). In the Maycomb County there is a lot of whites‚ blacks and even some mixed. There are some that are wealthy and some that are not. Some get along and others do not. Even in a small town‚ they all live so differently. Throughout Harper lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird‚ hypocrisy‚ injustice and evil is envisioned in an adult society

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    Choose 2 of the texts we have studied and explain how each composer has successfully communicated their message to the responder. In the text To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and the ’I have a dream’ speech by Martin Luther King Jnr‚ both composers have conveyed strong messages that are communicated through narrative and oral techniques. These messages of courage and prejudice and discrimination are what the composer thought is necessary to write in order to change social attitudes towards

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    "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" correlate to To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee in its themes of innocence and exposure. “The Lamb” discusses the topic of childhood innocence and in the novel is delineated through three characters- Scout‚ Jem‚ and Dill. They are mockingbirds who only see good things. Due to this‚ they have a black and white perspective of the world. Lee exhibits their view during the trial. The children believed that the jury would acquit Tom Robinson. There was exculpatory evidence

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    Book Review of: To Kill a Mockingbird Genre: Fiction/Realism First published in 1960 by William Heinemann Ltd. F Plot To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story of Scout Finch and her brother‚ Jem‚ in 1930’s Alabama. Through their neighbourhood walk-abouts and the example of their father‚ they grow to understand that the world isn’t always fair and that prejudice is a very real aspect of their world no matter how subtle it seems.

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    much suffering and unhappiness. To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic novel written by Harper Lee. It was written in the early 1960’s about a young girl named Scout and her family about the racism that was provoked in the town. Harper Lee‚ in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ illustrates three main lessons with the Tom Robinson trial: Stand up for what you believe in‚ racism is painful and avoid mob mentalities. One of the most important lessons in To Kill a Mockingbird is to stand up for your beliefs

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    The title of To Kill a Mockingbird has very little literal connection to the plot‚ but it carries a great deal of symbolic weight in the book. In this story of innocents destroyed by evil‚ the “mockingbird” comes to represent the idea of innocence. Thus‚ to kill a mockingbird is to destroy innocence. Throughout the book‚ a number of characters including Jem‚ Tom Robinson and Boo Radley can be identified as mockingbirds – innocents that have been injured or destroyed through contact with evil. This

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    Good evening parents. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the fear of difference and resulting pressure to conform is a strong theme permeating the plot. It is most clearly shown in the characters’ attitudes towards race and fashion‚ both of which are still pervasive in Australia in 2011. In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the power of racism causes men and women to fear difference and conform to the status quo. The majority of white citizens were extremely racist; a few were even involved with the Ku

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    Company of India Ltd. Pp 311-323. 3. Dunphy‚ G. 2004. Meera’s Mockingbird‚ from Harper Lee to Meera Syall. Neophilogus. pp 637-660. 4. Hovet‚ T & Grace-Anne. 2001. Fine Fancy Gentlemen and Happy Folk: Contending Voices in To Kill a Mockingbird. Southern Quarterly: A Journal of the Arts in the South. Pp67-78. 5. Lee‚ H. 1960 (rpt 1966). To Kill a Mockingbird. Oxford: Heinemann New Windmills. 6. Miller‚ C. To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Corruption on Innocence. www.umn.edu/millerc/teachingenglishhomepage/teachingunits/tokilll

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    Analysis of “To kill a mockingbird” Saryuna Rinchino‚ gr. 02193 The story under analysis is an extract from a novel “To kill a mockingbird”. The book was written by Harper Lee in 1960. Harper Lee was born in 1926 in the state of Alabama. In 1945-1949 she studied law at the University of Alabama. “To kill a mockingbird” is her first novel and after being published it was highly acclaimed and even was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961‚ one of the most important awards in literature. The book became

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