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Cal has symbolized strength and authority throughout Scout's childhood, by acting as a mother figure in the Finch household. Scout has never seen Cal in such a low and submissive position
Equality is not approved, segregation is traditional, and hate is accepted. Maycomb citizens believe that Tom Robinson is not, and should not be a part of their lives or of their community Atticus, on the other hand, find faults with the towns' traditional views. Thinking logically and wisely, he knows he does not want his children to grow up with similar views. Atticus attacks old southern tradition by using the law. He lives by a traditional code in which justice...
He strongly believes that "in our courts all men are created equal"(p.205). Atticus knows that if there is one place in which the time-honored codes of southern society can be broken, it is in a court of law. He discovers, however, that tradition is not easily broken and laws are not easily changed.
Leo Ward has Summed up the Novel in his review by saying:
"Both the style and the story seem simple, but no doubt it is quite an achievement to bring them to that happy condition." (Commonweal)
The above opinion is very true because the disarming quality of the novel is its style and simplicity which carry some very thought provoking moments as the events unfold specially when seen through the eyes of a six-year-old child.
Works Cited
Draper, James P, ed "Lee, Harper." World Literature Criticism: 1500 to present. vol. 4. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992.
Sullivan Richard. "Engrossing First Novel of Rare Excellence." Chicago Sunday Tribune 17 July, 1960.
Johnson, Claudia Durst. Understanding to Kill a Mockingbird. Wesport:the Greenwood Publishing, Inc., 1994.
Ward, Leo. Commonweal, 9 December, 1960.
Works Cited
Draper, James P, ed "Lee, Harper." World Literature Criticism: 1500 to present. vol. 4. Detroit: Gale Research Inc., 1992.
Sullivan Richard. "Engrossing First Novel of Rare Excellence." Chicago Sunday Tribune 17 July, 1960.
Johnson, Claudia Durst. Understanding to Kill a Mockingbird. Wesport:the Greenwood Publishing, Inc., 1994.
Ward, Leo. Commonweal, 9 December, 1960.
Boo Radley In Harper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Boo Radley is a marginalized figure. In a book filled with memorable dialogue and conversation, he is the only central figure who never speaks for himself in the text. Because To Kill A Mockingbird describes social existence in a small town, Boo's status as one who does not openly participate in this social existence is responsible for his marginalization. But I
Robinson being black and the alleged victim of the rape being a white woman. Finch then states that "I have nothing but pity... For the chief witness whose evidence has been called into serious question... The defendant is not guilty, but somebody in this courtroom is" (Lee, 1988, 231). What Finch is attempting to say is that the true guilt lies on the white woman who has accused Mr.
Kill Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that discusses race relations and the justice system in American culture. Atticus is a lawyer who defends a black man on trial for raping a white woman. As a result, the community is against Atticus and his family. Symbolism is one way that author Harper Lee discusses the sensitive issues in the novel, which was published first in 1960. At that
Atticus Finch's identity prevents Scout from thinking that all is lost in society because of the fact that everyone is inclined to commit immoralities. Atticus is the bona fide American individual who is unwilling to join the masses in discriminating black people and even goes as far as risking his position in society with the purpose of demonstrating Tom Robinson's innocence. From watching her father's determination, Scout learns that one
There are stereotypes on both sides of the racial issues raised in this book, and Lee tries to show that both of them are unfair and generalized, and that there were exceptions on both sides of the Black/white controversies and disagreements in the South. Lee uses rape as a shocking way to bring racism to the surface, because sexual relations between a white woman and black man were even more
Kill a Mockingbird is one of the classical American novels that described the lynching of a black man accused of rape in Alabama during the 1930s. In this story, Tom Robinson is completely innocent, having been accused falsely by a white woman named Mayella Ewell. In reality, she was attracted to Tom and attempted to seduce him, but when her father found out he forced her to accuse him