... good proportion of the story focuses on the prejudices between the African Americans and the whites in the Southern States of the U.S.A. Chapters 2 and 3 Summary The summer is now over and Dill returns to his mother's, and Scout starts Grade 1 at the local school. She has been looking forward to ... female role models have different views on femininity, but it would appear that Scout would tend to adopt Miss Maudie's line. Chapters 6, 7 and 8 Summary The children return home to find the neighborhood adults assembled, brought out of their homes by the sound the of the shotgun. They inclu...

• Word Count: 10075
• Approx Pages: 40
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• Grade Level: High School

... the white, rural pre-Civil War South" (Booknotes, 1989). Butterfield uses the Bosket's family as a case study to illustrate his thesis about the transmission of violence from the South. Summary The blacks in the south had adapted the Scott-Irish culture in which was the key for slaves to survive. The slaves called this the honor code; this represented the ... ...

• Word Count: 3198
• Approx Pages: 13
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• Grade Level: High School

... to the influence of Sofia and Shug, two strongly independent women. In order to keep from killing Mr. __, Celia takes up the hobby of sewing pants. The following is a brief summary of Nettie's first letter to Celie: After Nettie had left their house (following Mr. __'s demand that she leave), Mr. __ followed her on horseback and tried to rape her. In the ... ...

• Word Count: 4341
• Approx Pages: 17
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TIME MAGAZINE ARTICLE "My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and oh my friends; It gives a lovely light." Enda St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950) The poem reflects the intensity of the Roaring Twenties, and the degree that it could not and did not last. Nobody knew at the time but 1929 loomed; not as a bright light but as a year that would extinguish any heat that the decade still contained. In the second stanza of the poem, 'but ah my foes' refers to the conservationists in the bible belt of America who wanted to protect the conservative social and religiou...

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... , a Ku Klux gown and a signal instrument. The operations of the Klan are executed in the nights and are invariably directed against members of the Republican Party. The Klan is inflicting summary vengeance on the colored citizens of these citizens by breaking into their houses at the dead of night, dragging from their beds, torturing them in the most inhuman manner, and ... ...

• Word Count: 2643
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School