Alabama

In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus exhibits courage throughout the whole book. Atticus is the lone parent of two who live in the South. In Maycomb, a fake district in Alabama, many of the citizens are prejudice against African Americans. In the 1930’s, Maycomb was devastated by poverty and unemployment because of the Great Depression. Atticus overcomes all the obstacles and threats he faces, however, he demonstrates courage by taking Tom Robinson as a client, standing up to racists…

TKAM Essay How does prejudice affect the way we as humans get along? In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, a young girl named Scout lives with her brother,Jem, and her father, Atticus, in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. Throughout this book, Scout learns a lot of important life lessons. Prejudice plays a huge role in the book and serves as examples to Scout learning the way things are no matter if they are fair or not. Not only is Scout learning important life lessons on being fair and…

brother and sister who are the main protagonists of the novel. Jem and Scout grow up in a town where they are constantly surrounded by racial inequality, social unrest and prejudice. Jem Finch is considered a normal young boy growing up in the small Alabama town of Maycomb. Like his friends Jem likes to likes take part in activities that are perceived to be masculine in nature such as sports. Yet the way he is raised is very different than his friends and his upbringing is considered to be…

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is set in the fictional southern town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. The story began with Scout introducing the story of how her brother, Jem, break his arm. Two subplots are followed through the novel which are the mystery of Arthur “Boo” Radley and Atticus, Scout’s father, taking on the case of an African American allegedly raping a white woman. Throughout the novel, many themes become prevalent in the actions of the Maycomb people. One of…

there is no evil; no one is ever comprehensively virtuous or immoral but rather at intervals with both. Within Harper Lee's bildungsroman, To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem Finch recognized this as he and his younger sister, Scout, grew up in Maycomb, Alabama. As he matured over the years, Jem learned that the concepts of good and evil are complicated ideas that take on a variety of forms. Whether it be from the Radleys, Mrs. Dubose, or the trial of Tom Robinson, Jem learned what good and evil truly…

and get a regular job barely making ends meet. We did not have very much money to send me to college, so I decided to join the military.” Shortly after graduating high school he went to the recruiter’s office in town to sign up, then to Montgomery, Alabama to follow up. Kenneth got a brief basic training in Montgomery, but within two months he was sent to fort hood in Texas. He said that it was a big shock to him, everything was new, and it was like being reborn into a new world. He talked about…

A King's Fight for Justice The man who changed the course of American history and portrayed impeccable bravery and pride in himself, his race, and his country was Martin Luther King Jr. Today, he still is a modern day hero for many reasons. King has had a positive effect on Americans by his role in the nonviolent civil rights movement, the effects he had people both black and white, and the effects his assassination had on americans. King was born on January 15, 1929. He was born into a…

Books are a good source of education and entertainment. A great book that has just that is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee The book takes place in Maycomb, Alabama. The main characters are Scout Finch, Jem Finch (Scout’s older brother), Atticus Finch (father of scout and Jem) who is an open-minded attorney, and Tom Robinson (african American man accused of rape.) The book contains discrimination, racism, and poor judgements. Although all of the bad stuff in the book there is yet great things…

To Kill A Mockingbird The story, “To Kill A Mockingbird”, by Harper Lee is one of the most influential novels of all time, it is even relevant in today’s society. The story not only captures what racism was like back in Alabama in the 1930s, but also captures the people that went against the society and did not believe everything that society believed. There are so many life lessons from this story that are still relevant in today’s time. There were three main life lessons that absolutely stuck…

Helen Keller, a woman who at a very young age, had to adapt to a whole new way of life, and no one around her knew about it.” Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama on June 27, 1880,” Helen was a healthy newborn until the age of “nineteen months” when she developed an illness which led to the loss of her sight and hearing. Because of this, her parents didn’t know what the next step to take was so she could be led down the right path. Eventually they found a woman named Anne Sullivan who could potentially…