Perspective on Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird

Cluny’s horde tried attacking the abbey by slinging rocks at the mice on the wall and shooting arrows at them. The rats were losing horribly so Cluny came up with another plan. He had some of his army climb up a tree that was high enough for them to get up onto the wall. The oldest mouse in Redw... ... middle of paper ... ...giving out meals to the soldiers on the wall, she saw the siege tower pop out of the forest right next to the wall. She was surprised and accidentally threw her lamp onto to the tower which sent it up into flames.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch says, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (39). People often fail to examine a situation from someone else view because their opinions are biased. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows readers just how damaging prejudice really is when it is caused by rumors, race, and another man’s beliefs.

Anansi then bound the python to the branch with the string-creeper and wound it over and over- nwenene! Nwenene! Nwenene!- until he came to the head.’ In the story Coyote Steals Fire by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz, a tricky Coyote fooled a sky God named Thunder by removing his skin and hiding in the woods so he would not find him, and then tricking him into throwing the stone which contained fire and breaking it. The cunning house cat in Master Boots, by Charles Perrault, tricked a whole town into giving their property to his master by threatening them and eating an Ogre. “If you do not say that the fields you are mowing belong to the Marquis de Carabas, each and every one of you will be cut into little

"Boo was about six and a half feet tall, judging him from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands are blood-stained - if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time." (To Kill a Mockingbird, p.13). The children test his boundaries as well as their own imaginations by constructing the image. It adds to the game and encourages Jem and Scout to develop distinctions for their boundaries.

This idea was rendered from Miss Stephanie who, in the novel, is the town gossip. She has told Jem plenty of times how Boo looks. “Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained-if you ate an animal raw you could never was the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellowed and rotten; his eyes popped and he drooled most of the time”(Lee, 13). This image of Boo was permanently etched in the children’s minds.

In Harper Lee’s novel, both Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are innocent characters, but Boo’s kindness is hidden by rumors and Tom’s generosity is hidden by stereotypes. Tom and Boo are both described and interpreted in incorrect ways because some people have never seen them, and most people base their assumptions on rumors and stereotypes. There are many incidents in To Kill a Mockingbird where this is evident. The first place where this is evident, is at the beginning of the book Dill asks what Boo look like and Jem describes Boo as, “About six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained-if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood... ... middle of paper ... ... blacks and makes them impotent hurts Tom Robinson this time because even though Atticus has ripped apart the Ewells to a point where they aren’t even asked for the truth, Tom Robinson is still a black man in a Jim Crow south and his word is against two white people’s word. And ultimately instead of being rewarded for helping out, he gets shot.

Tom Robinson is actually killed and his death is a sin committed by the whole white community of Maycomb. All he tried to do was to abide by the rules of the society in which he lived and when a black person is asked to do a chore he obeys. The main enemies of birds are cats and Lee describes Mayella as being like ‘a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tale’ and the bird she is focusing on is of course, Tom Robinson. Lee’s description is that of a cat stalking its prey. Jem to some degree was also a mockingbird.

He was often physically abusive to his wife. One night the man came home very drunk and violent so Pluto(the black cat) scratched him out of fear. then the man lost his temper and cut out the cat's eye with his penknife. One morning the man hanged the cat from a tree limb with a noose around its neck. That night his house burnt to the ground.

Because of this bite, “the fury of a demon instantly possessed” the man, and he “knew [himself] no longer” (347). Since the black cat, associated with evil, bit the narrator, he now has evil inside of him. After this attack, the narrator first shows signs of mental illness. His saying he ‘knew himself no longer’ and that his soul has “take[n] its flight from [his] body” implies that he is not in control of his body and an outside power, the supernatural, is (347). After the attack, the narrator took out his pocketknife and stabbed the cat in the eye, an irrational decision showing the increasing severity of his illness.

The prince from Snow White, is attracted to Snow White for real, instead of for his own gain, and from this he saves her live. The film opens with a modern song, with Shrek criticizing and having a laugh at the expense of normal fairytales, and then carries on with the fun by Shrek wiping his backside with an average fairytale story. The viewers are shocked by the use of this in a children's movie, an opening like this suggests that this is a modern children's movie, and creates... ... middle of paper ... ... met the princess and he is pictured by the sunset. Ha and Fiona walk through the forest on a sunny day, the lighting here gives an overview of a happy romantic day, even though it doesn't seem real. There are birds chirping and the princess singing, all showing contentment.