Scout and Jem’s moral growth is a highlighted entity in the novel where as the novel progresses, the children’s maturity process subsequently progresses. Lee constructs different passageways and hurdles in the children’s lives which influences their growth and understanding of their own community as well as the outer world. Their childish innocence consisting of arbitrary …
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“To Kill a Mockingbird” establishes the role of parenthood through the lives of different characters. Parenting constructs the attitudes of a child when faced with the realities of life, and Harper Lee presents this idea by identifying how good parenting ensures healthy growth and bad parenting can drastically alter a child’s normal life. Atticus is …
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The title “To Kill a Mockingbird” is a derivative of one of Atticus’s most famous statements, where the mockingbird stands as a symbol of innocence. When Jem receives his first air rifle, Atticus offers a piece of advise, “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to …
Harper Lee uses a child as a narrator to her novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, where Scout’s role presents the forms of prejudice in Maycomb in an unexaggerated tone. Harper Lee centralizes the novel around children, depicting their own maturity process in accordance with the novel’s development. Scout and Jem are first introduced with Dill …
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The scene of the trial is centrally related to the novel’s main themes, i.e. prejudice, and a courageous man’s lone battle to ensure justice and establish truth in a hate corrupted community. Here we see Atticus’s professional skill, his humility, decency and compassion. We see the two marginalized groups, the white trash, immoral, abusive and …
The act of courage is played out by characters in different forms in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. It takes place with small acts such as Miss Maudie not complaining when her house is burned down, or acts which changes the entire way of a character is perceived, such as Mrs. Dubose’s fight against her addiction. …
