To Kill a Mockingbird is essentially a bleak novel Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is a comprehensive, tragic and overwhelming novel, but it is not essentially bleak. ... Harper Lee believes that she can get through to the next generation of readers so that they can adopt unbiased views toward racism. ... Harper Lee uses this guilt to inflict a responsibility onto the reader; she makes the reader want to change the world and promise to themselves that they will never be biased and will always be just. Atticus" speech is the heart of Harper Lee's argument and is in no way bleak,...

• Word Count: 751
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Lee Robert E. ... He helped stop John Brown from raiding Harper's Ferry and distributing the weapons to the African American slaves. ... Lee made his decision. ... General Lee lead the attack. ... He then gave his speech, " Lee's Farewell to the army of Northern Virginia." ...

• Word Count: 773
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• Grade Level: High School

Monroeville and Harper Lee's farther who was a lawyer. Monroeville was also Harper Lee's hometown and this gave her reasons to know the socity as deeply as she does. ... The appearance of females is one particular view that Harper Lee projected to me as the reader. ... One of the many causes of prejudice Harper Lee illustrates in the book is that humans need a scapegoat, something to blame their actions on. ... This illustrated in Atticus's speech in the courtroom. ...

• Word Count: 1707
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Monroeville and Harper Lee's farther who was a lawyer. Monroeville was also Harper Lee's hometown and this gave her reasons to know the socity as deeply as she does. ... The appearance of females is one particular view that Harper Lee projected to me as the reader. ... One of the many causes of prejudice Harper Lee illustrates in the book is that humans need a scapegoat, something to blame their actions on. ... This illustrated in Atticus's speech in the courtroom. ...

• Word Count: 1688
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Lisa Law TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee is filled with universal themes within society. Lee uses various techniques to explore the racial prejudice, human sufferings and the triumph of goodness over evil. Lee constructed the novel as a flashback through the narrator, Jean Scout Finch, who as an adult recollects her childhood memories. ... Lee uses Scout"s perplexity at her aunt to portray the significance of race and role of class status in society. ... In Atticus" speech, he declared that the racial prejudice in the "assumptions that all Negroes lie, that al...

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Through out the novel, the author Harper Lee asserts this theme through an assortment of characters. ... Harper Lee asserts this theme through the character of Atticus. ... Harper Lee further illustrates this point through the character of Scout. ... For instance a girl in my speech and debate class had been teased about her religion. ...

• Word Count: 1231
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• Grade Level: High School

In October 1859, Brown seized the weapons arsenal at Harpers Ferry, where seven innocent people were killed and another ten injured. ... Lee. The Harpers Ferry incident had immense ramifications. ... Senator Charles Sumner, a leading abolitionist, made a highly charged anti-slavery speech entitled "The Crime against Kansas" in 1856. This speech insulted pro-slavery men and enraged Congressman Preston Brooks, who proceeded to pound Sumner with a cane until it broke. ...

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Recognition of Good and Evil Quality To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, is number #41 on the banned book list. ... A New Yorker reviewer talks about the author Harper Lee and quotes, " It is not that she has written another novel about race and prejudice, but rather she has placed race and prejudice in a perspective which allows us to see it as an aspect of a larger thing; as something that arises from phantom contacts, from fear and lack of knowledge; and finally as something that disappears with the kind of knowledge or "education" that one gains through learning what people are really...

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In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the reader walks alongside Jean Louise Finch (otherwise known as Scout) throughout the journey of her childhood. ... Tom's fellow Negroes watched from their separate balcony seats above as Atticus delivered his closing speech to the jury, begging them to, "in the name of God, believe him." ... (Lee, p. 99) as they came to pass her house. ... (Lee, p. 112) He thought this because of the extremely difficult goal she had set and followed through with. ... (Lee, p. 204) Atticus recognized the clandestine fact that guilt has nothing to do with...

• Word Count: 1706
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• Grade Level: High School

Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, was published in 1960 during a time of racial strife: the Civil Rights Movement was at its prime and tumultuous events evolved into violence, spread into states across the country and entered the American conscience. ... He gave this speech in response to the U.S National Guard being sent to protect two African American students enrolling at the University of Alabama. ... Harper Lee's novel, along with other prominent voices of the time, suggests that one develops a true sense of right, wrong and fairness by stepping into someone else's...

• Word Count: 2326
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• Grade Level: High School

Through the character of Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows the close and dependent relationship between acts of moral courage and personal integrity; when an individual fosters the moral courage to do the right thing even in the face of despair and on a daily basis, they in turn steadfastly adhere to high moral principles and a standard for oneself. ... Another significant event that helps us understand Harper Lee's ideas regarding courage and integrity is when a mad dog named Tim Johnson was found to be roaming the Finch street. ... This event is symbolic of a much mor...

• Word Count: 2284
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• Grade Level: High School

this quote has offended enough people, that the Pulitzer Prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird has been placed among the list of "most frequently banned books"(Lee). ... Questionable language being the biggest issue in To Kill a Mockingbird, but it is also commonly banned for ungrammatical speech and an unfavorable presentation of blacks (Johnson). ... The majority of good writers will acknowledge the time frame of their current piece and use the jargon associated with the time period, just as Lee has done here. ... Harper Lee has truly created an inspiring and touching masterpiece. ...

• Word Count: 1207
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• Grade Level: High School

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses direct characterization to illustrate Tom Robinson as an oppressed, poor, black man, the actions taken against him symbolized all oppressed African Americans in the south during the 1930's. ... "Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character." ...

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"To Kill a Mockingbird- could be considered a reliable and unexaggerated portrait of southern American's prejudice because the author Harper Lee based Maycomb the setting for the book and the character Atticus. Monroeville was Harper Lee's hometown and this gave her reasons to know the society as deeply as she does. ... One of the many causes of prejudice Harper Lee illustrates in the book is that humans need a scapegoat, something to blame their actions on. ... This illustrated in Atticus's speech in the courtroom. ...

• Word Count: 1551
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

He is key to the book as it is a tale depicting prejudice in South America and he is the main focus of Harper Lee's portrayal of the racial hatred in Maycomb, which was an everyday occurrence. ... Harper Lee has structured her story around the life of a young girl, Jean Louise. ... He had no power with speech so deciding to act, ran. ... Harper Lee is displaying the injustice but surprisingly does not mak...

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However, one of the few acquaintances he did have was Harper Lee, a young girl who lived next-door. ... Critics say that Lee based the character of Dill, an extremely imaginative young boy on Capote. ... Three days later, Capote departed for Kansas with his childhood friend Harper Lee. Lee helped him with the initial research of the murder. ... His short stature, high-pitched voice and speech mannerisms led much of the public to center on him. ...

• Word Count: 1903
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• Grade Level: High School

Constitution, the Bill of Rights, states in the first amendment, "Congress shall make no law representing an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances" (Karolides et al.). The first amendment allows the freedom of religion, the freedom of speech, and the freedom of the press. ... Lee's book shines a glaring spotlight on the issues of race and justice. ... Jill May believes, "She [Harper ...

• Word Count: 2168
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Good morning my fellow classmates. My name is Alison ___________, and today, I'm going to talk about the literary classic, "To Kill A Mockingbird," by Harper Lee. The main character in the book, Atticus Finch, plays the role of father, teacher and friend to his young children, Scout and Jem. Attic...

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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird (referred to as TKMB) by Harper Lee and the film a Time to Kill (referred to as TTK) by John Grisham, racism is made relevant. ... These rednecks rape Tonya, the daughter of Carl Lee and because of this Carl Lee Hailey does what he thinks is right. ... In the name of God believe Tom Robinson" (Lee 205). ... Another thing that shows that the jury is biased is that in Jake's final speech he gives the audience in the courtroom including the jury a mental image of Carl Lee's daughter when she is raped. ... Then the jury announces Carl Lee not guilty. ...

• Word Count: 2234
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

The Heroism of Atticus Finch: Essay The racism which was prevalent in many small American towns in the 1930s is expertly illustrated in Harper Lee's classic novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. ... Finch's desire to share his principles and knowledge is simply the fact that in everyday life, and specifically during his speeches and actions in the courtroom, he strives to let people learn from his example. ...

• Word Count: 1341
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

After hours of testimony and speeches along with witness accounts but, Tom still lost the trial and he knows that Atticus had did his best defending him. ... Soon after the trial Tom Robinson escaped from the jail house and was killed by multiple gunshot wounds all over him(Lee, Harper). ...

• Word Count: 1131
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School