Conflict In To Kill A Mockingbird
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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel by Harper Lee and it tells us the stories of Jeremy, Jean Louise, and Atticus Finch, whose lives were affected with Tom Robinson’s trial. The setting takes place in Maycomb County, Alabama. Atticus, a lawyer, was appointed by the county judge to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, who was accused of raping a white girl named Mayella Ewell. As the story unfolds, Tom Robinson gets acquitted of his crime and it draws more controversy outside the community into this issue. Jean Louise, the narrator, tells the events that happened before, during and after trial such as the neighborhood criticizing the Finch family for defending a black man, calling them with racial slurs. In the story, there is a parent-child conflict and it is between Atticus and Jean Louise Finch. Atticus expects Jean Louise to act like a lady and Jean Louise finds it hard because she always hangs out with her brother Jeremy. She learns more things from her brother than at school. Examples of what she learned are making caricatures of their neighbors, trespassing into other people’s properties, and climbing onto poles. Jean Louise also gets in trouble more than her brother by fighting with her classmates who made insults about her or her family. Atticus advised her to keep her temper and …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how harper lee's to kill a mockingbird tells the stories of jeremy, jean louise, and atticus finch, whose lives were affected by tom robinson’s trial.
- Analyzes the parent-child conflict between atticus and jean louise finch in the story.
- Analyzes the parent-child conflict between atticus and jean louise when they learned that he was trying to defend a man named tom robinson.
- Analyzes how jean louise doesn't understand the reality of racial discrimination in her community, but her father opposes it, which creates a conflict.
She couldn’t understand why Atticus is trying to defend Tom when the people of Maycomb County don’t want him or any white lawyer helping a black man win the trial. Atticus tells her that it is his duty to provide counsel for Tom and he is willing to take the criticisms drawn from both his colleagues and neighbors. Atticus warned Jean Louise not to fight with anyone who insults her that her dad is a “black-lover”, as it will more ruin the family reputation and Atticus himself. Jean Louise couldn’t do much but to endure the pain of being insulted for his father’s
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- Analyzes how harper lee's to kill a mockingbird portrays an influential period of the protagonist, jean louise "scout" finch.
- Analyzes how jean louise "scout" finch's journey from innocence to maturity is largely due to the atmosphere and culture of maycomb, alabama.
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- Analyzes how harper lee's to kill a mockingbird takes place in southern alabama, where racism and hatred are shown throughout the book.
- Analyzes how the occurrence of snow signifies a potential change in maycomb county. the snow foreshadows scout's loss of innocence as soon as the trial begins.
- Analyzes how harper lee uses the white camellias to foreshadow an end of jem's innocence.
- Analyzes how uses the symbol of the mockingbird to foreshadow an end of innocence.
- Concludes that uses the symbols of the snow, white camellia, and the mockingbird to foreshadow the loss of innocence in scout, jem and tom robinson.
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- Analyzes how to kill a mockingbird is a great portrayal of the conflict between races in the early 1930's.
- Analyzes how in the world of to kill a mockingbird many people are afraid of change and have no desire for it.
- Analyzes how harper lee emphasizes differences and how it frightens characters in the book.
- Analyzes how jem is affected by peer pressure to execute a task but on the inside he knew it wasn't right. the finch family rebellious because the rest of society believed that tom robinson was guilty.
- Explains that scout reminds mr cunningham that he is a father just like atticus, and with the presence of scout and other children it made the violence stop. peer pressure can influence society.
- Analyzes how racial prejudice is well portrayed in to kill a mockingbird and how it affects behavior of society and what they think of them.
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- Analyzes how maycomb county's setting was different depending on the weather. the setting is important because the southern states were still racist and they were living a poor life.
- Analyzes how the conflict in "to kill a mockingbird" is resolved when tom robinson is accused of raping mayella ewell, and atticus finch agrees to protect him in his case.
- Analyzes how tom is the symbol of the mockingbird and the racist people in the town rebel against a white man sticking up fro an african american.
- Opines that the book starts off slow and confusing, but near the middle it started to unwind, and part two was their favorite part.
- Analyzes how scout and jem went to school and didn't start on the right foot with her teacher. they found two pieces of gum in radley's oak tree, and trespassed into his house.
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