Essays on To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee’s novel ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, and Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel ‘Persepolis’, explores the conflict between personal and public worlds through the characters and the societies that they live in. Although both stories explore different issues, both exhibit a female protagonist’s journey of maturation...

Would growing up in a different time affect the way you grow up? In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird we get to see the bildungsroman of Scout’s older brother, Jem. We experience the event that transforms Jew from a child to a more adultlike...

In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee explores many social issues. When reading the novel through an archetypal perspective, archetypal images, symbols and characters are the predominant focus of the text, and more importantly, the meanings behind them. The archetypal lens puts...

Growing and changing allows people to take past mistakes and events and turn them into a lesson they can use to their advantage in the future. Throughout one’s childhood, they are constantly making mistakes and learning from them. During To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper...

The 1960 classic American novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee tells a story of race, prejudice, conscience, and innocence. Growing up in a Southern United States town in the 1930s, six year old Scout Finch explores the threads of racial prejudice and discrimination...

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ” – Scout I found this quote to be of particular interest as it is not only rather deep, philosophical commentary but moreover because it concerns something I...

In To Kill a Mockingbird, fairness is a significant concept during which Scout addresses uncomfortable realities about inequality and discrimination within her culture. She discovers that while the courts are often a possible source of redress, there are other avenues beyond the courtroom to hunt...

When the word ‘courage’ rings in the air, most people think of Superman or a Disney character. They may think of notable and often times famous people. The word courage has been stereotyped to bring images of war and fame among the minds of the...

Courage is the action of someone presenting their opinion when taken into consideration of the possible hardships. It allows one to confront danger along with difficulty without any fear held upon. Moreover, courage is a simple word with a lot of different meanings to it,...

Novels are a convenient way for an author to express his or her viewpoint on contentious situations, or to provide an underlying message through the clever use of storytelling. Society has been shaped to what it is now through decades of stereotyping and racism. Two...