To Kill A Mockingbird Reflection

Introduction: To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that was written in 1960 around characters in the town of Maycomb where a black man is accused of raping a white woman and the case is to be handled by the best attorney in Maycomb by the name of Atticus Finch. Atticus has a son named Jem and a daughter named Scout, and Jem and Scout see the world in innocent eyes, as the story is narrated from Scout’s point of view. It is later that both Scout and Jem will find out that things are not as good as they seem and that many things are more different and difficult than what they know. There are different things that takes place between the film and the book that makes a difference to the readers of the book or watchers of the film. The book gives more vivid details at to everything that is taken place while somethings are not in the movie the books vivid details answers questions that the film cannot answer.

The setting of the book To Kill A Mockingbird has a huge role on the conflicts, outcome of the trial, and Jem and Scout’s development. The book takes place in Maycomb county Alabama, in the 1930’s during the Great Depression. Since Alabama is in the south, and was before the Civil Rights Movement, most of the white residents in the town were racist. In the book, the town of Maycomb is almost like a character on its own. It is a small town that had lots of farmers who were struck hard by the Great Depression. Scout, who is the narrator of the book describes it by saying, “Maycomb was a tired old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square”(Lee 6). Scout even goes on to say, “People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square, shuffled in and out of the stores around it, took their time about everything”(Lee 6). In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the conflict of racism is shown through the trial, Atticus, and Jem and Scout’s uprising in a non-racist home but in a prejudice town.

To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County, Alabama in the 1930s. There is a myriad of families in this small county. Blacks, farmers, businessmen, and strong single women all call Maycomb County home. The book is told from the point of view of a little girl named Jean Louise Finch, or as many of the townspeople call her, Scout. Her father, whom they call Atticus, raises her with her brother Jem. A majority of the book deals with the trial of Tom Robinson, during which Scout begins to understand that not everybody is as fair as Atticus, raised Jem and her to be.

Tom Robinson’s trial was a hard one to watch, but it was so intriguing for the kids. Jem, Dill, and Scout just had to watch, so they left their house without permission to go see their dad defend Tom Robinson against Mayella Ewell. Jem thought that Atticus had a good chance at winning due to his cross-examination questions and the evidence he had. Once all of the jury’s votes came in unanimously as guilty, Jem started to realize what a twisted thing racism was. “I shut my eyes. Judge Taylor was polling the jury: “Guilty … guilty… guilty...guilty” I peeked over at Jem: his hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulders jerked as if each “guilty” was a separate stab between them” (Lee 282). This quote really shows that Jem cares deeply for the trial and Tom Robinson. He does not understand why people are so rude to black people just because of skin color and he just wants everything to be equal. “It was Jem’s turn to cry. His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd. “It ain’t right,” he muttered” (Lee 284). Jem’s anger reflected the unfairness towards Tom Robinson and the fact that justice was not served. During the trial Jem never seemed too phased by Bob Ewell’s attorney Mr. Gilmer clearly showing that Tom was worthless, because he thought that his dad was a

Small town America is a fantasy of friendly neighbors and lovely lives. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a small town and is nothing close to the fantasy of friendly neighbors and lovely lives. In a town of rape, racism, and prejudice, the reader watches who falls and who thrives in a small town on the brink of collapse. To Kill a Mockingbird, a coming of age fiction, was written by Harper Lee and published on July 11, 1960. This novel follows two siblings, Jem and Scout, throughout their most impressionable years in Maycomb County, Alabama, during the Great Depression. From Scout’s point of view, the reader watches how Maycomb County deals with the good and bad of society. While people are born with the ability to empathize, their

The Story to kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a book that took place during the Great Depression. The story talks about a town in Maycomb Alabama with Scout (Jean Louise Finch), Jem Finch, Atticus Finch, Calpurnia their housemaid , and later their Aunt Alexandra Finch Hancock along with the trials and tribulations that they encounter throughout the story in a racist town that is trying to change their beliefs of the people who suffer because of the community of the town.

The book To Kill a Mockingbird is set somewhere around Great Depression in Maycomb County, Alabama. The book focuses on three years of Jem, Scout, Atticus, Calpurnia, and Dill’s lives. The story begins with Scout and Jem meeting Dill and coming up with a plan to get Boo Radley out of the house. As the story progress, Atticus is preparing to defend Tom Robinson, an African-American, who had been accused of raping Mayella Ewell, daughter of the town drunk, Bob Ewell. Even though Atticus successfully cross examines the testimony of Bob Ewell, and Mayella Ewell, Tom is convicted. Enraged by Atticus cross examination, Bob Ewell swears revenge. A little later, as Jem and Scout are walking home from school, they are attacked by Bob, and Boo Radley

Slavery in the U.S was abolished in 1865, yet acts of racism and inequality are a still a reality for many. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is set in 1933 in a small town Alabama where the novel is narrated by Jem Finch’s (age 9) younger sister, Scout Finch (age 6) as they grows up with events of racism in court. After a trial case of an injustice of a black man, Jem and Scout are arguing about the morals of the people in their community. This passage shows how Jem comes to age by reminiscing on his naivety, disagreeing with inequality in the community, and sympathizing with the town’s outcast.

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County, Alabama from 1935 to 1938. The novel is about two young kids growing up in a segregated town in Alabama, where they learn the importance of being considerate of others. The main character is Scout Finch. Scout is six years old and lives with her older brother Jem, and her widowed father Atticus. In the summer they play games with their friend Dill around the Radley house.

“To Kill a Mockingbird” took place in the mid-1930’s, when the depression had just ended and segregation and racism within the south was in full swing. Harper Lee takes readers into the boring, but close-knit town of Maycomb, Alabama. In the beginning, we are introduced to the Finch’s, who for their time and place, seemed to me at least, a bit odd as a family. Scout and Jem were very mature for their ages in the way that they could process the world around them. This is immediately known in the way the children constantly refer to their father by his first name, but Atticus throughout the story, maintains a personality that is unmatched by any other character within the book. The beginning went into more detail regarding the routine lives of the children. The befriend and hang out with a child nicknamed “Dill”, Scout begins school, and at home, there’s something this family (mostly the father) enjoys doing, which is reading. The beginning of the book also describes the nature of the rest of the community, which a bit disconnected from the outside world, as mentioned by the town’s disturbing incestuous nature. Apparently, everyone fits in as if they each had their own respective niches, which leaves little room for change, and this unwillingness to bend to change really sets up the climax of the story.

The book,” To Kill A Mockingbird”, starts off by the narrator, Scout Finch (Jean Louise Finch) reminiscing into the past and delving into what caused her brother, Jem Finch, to get his arm grotesquely broken. The book takes place in an ancient and run- down city known as Maycomb, Alabama in a time where racism is evident in those who reside there. This wild story which follows the Finch family begins with the tales of the Radley Place, Boo Radley, and Dill.

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is an ageless classic that takes place during the 1930s. In the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, there was a deadly racial attitude towards the people who were different then the general public. In a town of tunnel vision and hatred, Atticus and Scout stood out with open minds.

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel that takes place in poverty-stricken Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression. The story follows Jem and Scout Finch, brother and sister, as they meet new people and experience several hardships. Scout and Jem live with their father, Atticus, and their maid, Calpurnia. Jem and Scouts mother passed away when Scout was only two, so she has grown up to be quite a tomboy. When Jem and Scout meet Dill, a strange boy with ever stranger ideas, they get into all sorts of trouble. Most of their devious plans involve engaging the mysterious and unknown Boo Radley, a monster-like man who is said to have stabbed his father suddenly and bitten his mother’s finger clean off. No one seems to know the truth

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is set in 1960 in a city of Alabama a small town called Maycomb. Despite from the young character Scout Finch is not only the most important character in the novel, she is also the narrator. Scout opens the novel as a grown woman reflecting back on key events in her childhood Who is a daughter of, Atticus Finch, a widowed lawyer. The novel covers a two-year period, beginning when Scout is six and ending when she is eight. Scout lives with her older brother Jem; short for Jeremy, her father and an African American housekeeper Calpurnia. In the novel, we see Scout grow in awareness to new understandings about her town, family, and herself. And the difference between the African American and Anglo-Saxon people.

Taking place in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s, Atticus Finch a well-known attorney and father, guides his children through the tough period of racism while helping them perceive the importance of understanding and accepting others. The award-winning novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, demonstrates how a broad perspective and the growth of knowledge can contribute significantly to one’s opinion and judgement of others, resulting in increased empathy. As Scout begins to mature, she gains knowledge and experience and learns to demonstrate compassion for the citizens of Maycomb while she experiments with putting herself in their situations.