... "Jem" Finch, Arthur "Boo" Radley and Charles "Dill" Baker Harris. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee skillfully shows how Scout, Jem, and Dill were prejudiced against Boo, when in fact, all these children are comparable to Boo even if they had not noticed so. Their personality differences from the rest of the town, the care of ... one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" (103). A mockingbird could represent an e...

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... Some people thought blacks were automatically dumb because of their color. They weren't allowed to do anything but menial tasks (such as chopping wood) and hard labor because they were thought too dumb. The novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Harper Lee has numerous accounts of racism and prejudice throughout the entire piece. ... treatment of Calpurnia, a black woman, the housekeeper/nanny for the Finch family. Although she is treated fairly, it is obvious that she is considered to be on a lower social level than the Finches. She calls Scout ma'am and Jem sir, although these are titles usua...

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... it." (pg 33) This is the advice Atticus gives Scout. How does she put his advice into practice during the novel? In "To Kill a Mockingbird" Scout, the narrator, tells the story from her point of view of herself as a young child. At many times she finds it difficult ... matures and gets distant from Scout. She had tried "to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him". This quote shows that Scout respect for both her father and brother. The fact that she decides not to bother Jem proves her respect and maturity. "Jem was ... twelve. He was di...

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... To Kill a Mockingbird," by Harper Lee, portrays a man, Atticus Finch, who is good and virtuous in nearly every aspect of his life. In the wrapped up lives of the his family, Atticus, father of Jem and Scout, raises his children unlike the average parent. Rather than leading by direction, and simply telling his children how to ... the importance of equality. "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win". (9.76) What Atticus is trying to tell Jem and Scout is that even though the negroes were enslaved and disrespected a hundred year...

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• Grade Level: High School