How Does Lee Use Allusions In To Kill A Mockingbird

“Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children; and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma”— Ephesians 5:1-2. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee describes a person who puts these ancient words into practice and imitates Christ in many ways. A lawyer and father in the small town of Maycomb Alabama, Atticus Finch withstands the bombardments of a broken world during the early 1930’s. Through his sacrificial, kind, and deliberate characteristics, Atticus finch models a Christ like character.

In the novel, Harper Lee uses Atticus and Tom Robinson to represent failure and disappointment. At the time Tom was pronounced guilty, both him and Atticus had not fulfilled their wishes of Tom being innocent. Chapter 21 states that watching Atticus lose was like watching him walk into the street, raise a rifle to his shoulder, and pull the trigger all the while knowing it was empty. This means that Atticus had felt so sorrowful about his incompletion of success towards Tom that he would have shot himself, but knew deep down that there

A father happily goes to church and sings all the hymns with a smile on his face. He later calls a white man a “nigger-lover”. A grandmother donates some her earnings everytime she attends church. The same grandmother snickers at a poor mother, telling a tale of how the woman gives men unconditional love for money. Both of these criminals go to church, which leads them and others to believe that they are absolute angels. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, practically everyone is religious, poor, rich, white, and black alike. Harper Lee illustrates how everybody, even the nicest of people, could be truly devilish using word choice, characterization, and symbolism.

Allusions are widely used in many famous pieces of literature. To Kill a Mockingbird, Old Man in the Sea, and Frankenstein are just some of the many books in which allusions play a substantial role. By analyzing allusions and symbolism in these books, the reader can connect fiction with real life. Although numerous people are oblivious to allusions, they play a large role in establishing the bigger picture of a story. Allusions within literature give the reader insight to what the author is really trying to get across because every story has a deeper meaning.

In the book, “To Kill A Mockingbird” there are many allusions the author uses to impact the story and characters. Two of them, which stood out was “Let this cup pass from you”(Lee 117) and “Garden of Gethsemane” (Lee 159). The second quoted is from Atticus, who knows that he can’t win the Tom Robinson case, but he still must do it, similar to how Christ knew he would have the bear the worlds cross, so we could one day spend eternity with him in heaven if we believe in him. Christ also didn’t want to bear the cross because he knew what would happen to him, even though it was his job. The two of them had to face their fates, which were no-win situations. The second quoted is from Jack, who knows how the trail has affected Atticus. The two of

The historical-fiction book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee exhibits a religious theme. Taking place during the 1930s, one component of the story is the scene of a white man named Atticus defending a black man, Tom, in court. For this particular time period, lawyers rarely stood up for Negros, much less the ones accused of assaulting white women. Usually black men charged with breaking the law had no say in the matter and experienced the consequences for their deed. Despite the fact that Atticus pretty much stands on his own in supporting Tom, he portrays a character of one firm in his opinions and yet humble. Moreover, his concluding words in the court case more clearly pictures his inspiring conduct. portraying shine light in the. Therefore, the theme of religion expresses itself through Atticus' conduct as defending lawyer, the assumptions developed in Tom's case, and Atticus' last words as the case concludes.

In Chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird, when Scout tries to have a conversation with Mr. Cunningham, her compassion relieves the tension of the situation. When the lynch mob are about to do whatever it takes to lynch Tom Robinson, Scout begins to speak with Mr. Cunningham, practicing what her dad taught her by saying, “ ‘Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How’s your entailment gettin‘ along...I go to school with Walter... he does right well. He’s a good boy...Entailments are bad’”(Lee, 155). By making conversation, trying to understand what Mr. Cunningham is going through and talking about what he would want to talk about, Scout is able to feel compassion for Mr. Cunningham and turn makes him decide to leave and let Atticus and the kids be. The theme of

The Evolution of Respect In To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch, the father of Scout and Jem, displays respect even with the hierarchy of a parent. The way they project respect to Atticus is not what most people would expect, but it is still there, as opposed to the way they speak to and act towards other adults such as their teacher. People should display respect, even when it is not how they truly feel. Society as a whole has formed a particular view of respect, “Yes Ma’am, yes Sir” and never call someone of authority by their first name ( Lee 1 ).

Harper Lee’s fiction novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, contained many quotes that were inspirational. However, the one quote that struck me as particularly powerful came from Atticus Finch when he was explaining to his son, Jem about why he would have made him read to their elderly neighbor, Mrs.Dubose even if he hadn’t misbehaved. “...I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” (149). This quote is significant to me because it highlights one of Atticus’s best traits, and teaches you a lesson while doing this. The quote is also a

In the book “To KIll A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the author uses characterization and metaphor to convey a message to the readers that growing up with family, shapes how you view right from wrong. Therefore it is difficult to control your actions, to what you think is right, compared to societies.

Throughout our reading, To Kill a Mockingbird, substance can be found within the reading. This substance consists of various literary elements that are used to formulate a story, to serve the author’s purpose. In this case, Harper Lee forms a commentary about the injustices faced by colored people, long after the abolishment of slavery. From Lee’s use of allusion, to her personal writing style, each element is used to tell a story. While there are many prominent literary elements at play within the reading, there are also subtle ones, which greatly affect the storytelling. Lee carefully use setting to s

Whether it is in literature or even shown in pictures, people use things to represent something with a deeper meaning and that’s called symbolism. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by author Harper Lee, various different themes or symbols are active throughout the book either directly, or more often, obscurely being tied to the ultimate theme of the book, which is not being able to understand someone until you experience life from their point of view. The most apparent reoccurring theme though is equality because of the fact it’s symbolized through people, birds, and even inanimate objects that Scout and Jem encounter over the course of the book in the tree that turns out to play a bigger part of the story as the story progresses. Sometimes, these symbols are obvious to the reader and other times, they’re not, but that doesn’t mean that there’s not an infinite number of ways to analyze or interpret those same symbols and the meanings behind them. By doing this, the reader is able to get a better and deeper sense of what Lee was truly trying to say and their connections to the story and the way they help make the reader experience being physically at the time of the 1930’s. Equality was and still is a problem as reflected in the book, but it’s the way Lee brings those symbols to our attention that makes us realize how close to the exact same spot we were over 80 years ago that is able to make the reader that much more intrigued.

Through out our educational careers literature has been forced down our throats and if your not good or dislike it, you are seen as a failure. By the time we reach collage, most who don’t like reading in this style have found ways to squeak by and pass, and this seams to work for many education systems and student today. Why does the educational system mark me a failure because I would rather write why “To Be A Mockingbird” is culturally significant, and not how the author uses metaphors and imagery to develop the story. Reading and writing is one of those things in school I have always hated doing.

The novel ‘To Kill a Mocking bird” is written by the author Harper Lee. Courage is shown throughout Harper Lee’s novel e.g. Atticus Finch does not like criminal raciest law, yet he accepts the choice to attend Tom Robinson's case. Harper Lee shows the setting of Maycomb which is located in Southern Alabama in the early 1930’s. The narrative voice/narrator of the novel is Scout Finch (Jean Louis) who is aged 6-9 at the time, but then she starts telling the story as an adult. The symbolism/imagery of the novel used in the novel was the Mockingbird itself which symbolises innocent and betrayal as well as beauty and goodness and it is also considered a sin to kill a Mockingbird.

Harper Lee is a fan of using subtle undertones and overtones everywhere in her book To Kill a Mockingbird. A good example of this is with the quote “‘Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of [another]...There are just some kind of men...who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.’” (pg. 60). This quote, as a stand-alone, gets gears turning, but once it’s paired with the rest of the book, it gives an entirely new perspective on a problem that so many people ignore or don’t notice. Her book is completely littered with examples that back up this quote and it’s intended meaning. A few examples of this is when the foot-washers call Miss Maudie and her flowers a sin, when the foot-washers quote scripture to Miss Maudie and she quotes some right back, when Mrs. Farrow talks about the blacks as if they are wild animals, when Mrs. Merriweather talks about the cooks and field hands grumbling after Tom’s Trials and when Jem is explaining to Dill why Dolphus Raymond is somewhat of a town outcast.