Harper Lee Essay Examples and Topics

We live in a world that racism was and still is really common. Everywhere you go you will see some kind of racism, no matter where you are. But, the thing is that many people judge someone just by the way they look, just because…

“A leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead.” The story takes place in Maycomb with the Finch family, Atticus gets a life changing case with Tom. After losing the case Bob attacked Scout and Jem….

  “Shoot all the Blue Jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember, it’s a sin to kill a mocking bird”. A father’s advice to his children. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age novel in which Scout and Jem learn…

“It is a sin to kill a mockingbird.” This quote was said by Atticus Finch, who was a lawyer and the father of Jean Louise Finch. It is known that mockingbirds would not harm anything, so why kill it? In this book a black man…

To Kill a Mockingbird was published by Harper Lee as a Southern Gothic and Bildungsroman genre novel that came out on July 11, 1960. It became a classic modern American literature to win a Pulitzer Prize. That the following next year was made into an…

To Kill A Mockingbird is a memory box preserving the sentiment of a kinder and courage America, through a named Atticus. The novel by Harper Lee was published in 1960, and is told through the eyes of a 6-year-old, Scout Finch. The book is told…

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” Harper Lee uses her novel To Kill a Mockingbird to show what courage really is. The theme of the true meaning of courage is presented in many ways throughout the novel, and its…

The 1930’s were a dark time for America, discrimination was plentiful and rose up as one of the many flaws in the so-called flawless nation. Harper Lee’s demonstrates her ideological perspective in her masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird, which simulates the effects of class discrimination…

In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are many characters that represent or symbolize mockingbirds. Mockingbirds are supposed to resemble innocence. In the novel, the most apparent mockingbirds in the story are Boo Radley, Jem, and Scout and they convey the…

Harper Lee depicts the concept of Marxism throughout the novel ‘to kill a mockingbird’. She focuses on the representation of class conflict and the reinforcement of class distinction between the bourgeoisie and proletariat. Atticus is subjected to defend a black man charged with the rape…

Harper Lee’s novels, To Kill A Mockingbird and Go Set A Watchman portrays the theme of gender through the protagonist, Jean Louise. Gender plays a crucial role in portraying the stereotypical beliefs held against a woman in the 1930’s society. Women are silenced and cannot…

It is human nature to grow, and along with growth there is maturity. Harper Lee shows us this in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, as scout, the main character, matures though the book. Scout slowly learns to control her unstable temper and avoid fistfights….

To Kill a Mockingbird novel it describes the events that took place in a small, Southern town in Alabama through the perspective of a young girl, named Scout Finch. The award-winning novel tackles many issues that still plague society today and has been recognized for…

In 2017, the 7th most challenged book in the American Library Association was Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird (1960). In the book a white lawyer, Atticus Finch, defends a black man, Tom Robinson, after he has been accused of rape. In addition to rape,…

To kill a Mockingbird and Go set a watch man are novels written by the same author — Harper Lee, which both showed the process of the development of scout’s characteristics from Scout’s perspective, how she changes from a young ignorant girl to an independent…