Influential Friends In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee. It is a story that tells of two children, Jem and Scout, growing up in the times of discrimination, depression, and racism. All throughout the novel, Scout tells about her father Atticus Finch, an attorney, defending a black man accused of raping a white woman. The semi-autobiographical novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee uses the characterization of Atticus to show equality and reveals that no one should judge people without knowing their story.

Friends are a more powerful influence on children than parents. Yes, parents teach their children many things and feed them every day, but friends are also a powerful influence on children. Throughout the novel, Scout and Jem were convinced to do some things by their friends. They learned many things along the way, too.

People are not always who they seem to be. One example of this is Atticus. Jem and Scout thought that he was old, boring, and never did anything exciting like their peers’ parents. Instead of playing poker, hunting, fishing, drinking, or smoking, Atticus spent his free time inside reading. He also wore glasses and was almost blind in his left eye. Jem loved football, but Atticus would never play with him because of his age. To Jem’s disappointment, Atticus said he was also too old to play with the Methodists against the Baptists in football. In Maycomb, every child's father was playing in the game except for Atticus. The game’s purpose was to pay off off the Methodists’ church mortgage and most of the town seemed to be involved. Jem and Scout

We can all agree that children have different illusions about what the world is really like around them. Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a bildungsroman that shows how a young girl named Scout grows up in Maycomb county with her father Atticus and her older brother Jem to guide her. The novel is set in the 1930’s in Maycomb county, a southern town where most of the neighbors get along with each other. Some of the neighbors have secrets that only the adults know, but eventually Jem and Scout find out what those secrets are, which challenges the illusions they have about their perfect little hometown and the friendly neighbors that live around them. In To Kill a Mockingbird it demonstrates a theme in the book about how things you believe to be true when you’re a child turn out to be different as you start to see them through adult eyes.

Jem, Scout, and Dill had been fascinated by the stories about the Radley house. One day when they were all playing, Dill dared Jem to

Research shows that children are more susceptible to commit crimes, fail in maintaining long lasting relationships and develop depression as well as other psychological disorders from the effects of bad parenting. In fact, many people grow up treating others the same way their parents have treated them with reference to their parents’ values, behaviours and attitudes. Harper Lee, an American author, expressed her childhood experiences in Alabama through writing the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. In this novel Harper Lee highlights the prevailing racist attitudes that existed in Alabama in the 1930s. Lee does this by having the parenting style of Atticus, and its impact on his children, stand in contrast to these prevailing racist attitudes. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee conveys that Atticus Finch is a great parent because he is not a hypocrite, he has a sense of fairness and he has good morals and values.

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is about two children, Jem and Scout, and their relationships with their father, Atticus. The children raise themselves growing up, many people would say they were irresponsible, but they are both appear to be intelligent individuals. The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird the novel demonstrates a rigid class structure and social stratification in the County of Maycomb. People should not be judged by their social class, they should be judged on their personality.

Beatrix Potter once said, “I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations”, which Harper Lee strongly emphasizes in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee writes in respect to the view of life through introducing an elderly Atticus Finch and children Jem and Scout Finch. As Jem and Scout grow up, they are being filled with rumors of a controversial Boo Radley and societies view on why he lives the way he does. The two are filled with curiosity and do their best to convince Boo Radley to come out of his hiding. Creating a play to fulfill the excess time in summer Jem and Scout endeavor some close calls with protective Boo. As summer passes, Atticus gets suspicious of their game and he soon catches on. Atticus

From the first seconds of dawn to the last moments of dawn, one thing overshadows the United States: social class. Whether it be lower, middle, upper, or somewhere in between, social structure has affected the lives of millions living in the U.S. for decades. Everyday life in the United States is shaped by the complex social structure. Numerous social classes divided and organized the citizens of Southern towns in the early to mid-twentieth century.

The criticism brought on by social roles negatively impacts one’s views on themselves and their actions. Maycomb’s strict social roles have lowered somes self esteem and has trapped people in a certain personality or financial stance. These social roles can get in a person’s head and change their views and actions in result. An example of this is shown at the school where Scout explains to Miss Caroline about the Ewells, ” He’s one of the Ewell’s...They come the first day every year and then they leave… You’re supposed to mark ‘em absent the rest of the year”(27). The Ewells have always left the first day of school because that’s who they are and who they will always be, but how are the children supposed to better themselves if this social role has been placed on them since birth. This normal behavior of the Ewells restricts the

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee. The novel is about the experiences of two siblings growing up in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s. Scout and her brother, Jem Finch, over several years, learn valuable lessons about life and society. The main themes of the story are the loss of cherubic innocence and the rift of inequality in society. The novel is largely influenced when it was written by the author’s own experiences, Civil Rights, and the Great Depression. The Great Depression is referenced many times in the novel since the Great Depression plays an important part influencing the story’s setting, plot, and characters. In To Kill a Mockingbird there are signs that the Great Depression is present and that certain characters are affected more by it than others, and the Great Depression is shown in the story’s families and their lives.

Douglas Adams once wrote, "Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity because it has not developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we do not expect to see." To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee and it examines the life of the residents of the fictional town of Maycomb through the eyes of a child. Incredibly paramount events in history largely shape the beliefs of the Maycombians. The story is set in the southern state of Alabama roughly seventy years after the end of the Civil War.

Throughout the course of your life, there are people who you look up to that teach you right from wrong, guide your beliefs, and open up your mind to what is important in life. In the novel “To kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, there are three individuals that contribute to the development of Jem and Scout’s morality and life values. Atticus, Boo Radley, and Aunt Alexandra, are three influential people in the novel that shape who Jem and Scout will become as adults. Atticus teaches Jem and Scout accepted behaviour in society. He taught Scout how to read and continued to do so, even though Miss Caroline claimed that if Atticus kept teaching Scout, it would interfere with her reading at school. Since Atticus continued to teach her, Miss Caroline got angry and told Scout that her father does not know how to teach

To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel, that offers a view of life through a young girl’s eyes. The novel is focused on two main themes which are racism and discrimination.

Children often look up to their parents or parent as their first role model. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, two sides of parenthood is shown in Atticus Finch and Bob Ewell. These two sides are shown through their parenting styles, personality traits and their role and views of the society.