To Kill a Mockingbird

Type :

School essay

Pages :

2 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

10/02/2007

Category :

Philosophy & literature

Sub category :

Literature

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Summary :

Introduction
The first part of the novel: Lighthearted and sentimental
The second part of To Kill a Mockingbird
The controversy surrounding the use of To Kill a Mockingbird in schools
The important themes in the book
Conclusion
Works cited

Abstract

"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mocking bird," explains Miss Maudie in Harper Lee's To kill a mockingbird. This is a simple concept to understand but it becomes a very complex and unifying metaphor in this novel. The action of the story centers about two particular characters. The first is Boo Radley who is a rarely seen neighbor that the community gossips about. He has been locked away from the world, by his father, for much of his life. The community propagates stories of him only coming out at night to hunt animals for food. The children both delight in and fear Boo Radley. Scout, Jem, and Dill spend their summer peeking in the Radley's windows and trying to make a connection with Boo. The children do forge a friendship with Radley. He leaves little gifts for them in a hole in a tree along a street. In this part of the novel "the emphasis is on people of a race and culture different from that of the Finch children, but it also includes the eccentric Boo Radleys of the world who are so different from the people we are "(Johnson 2).