Essays on Harper Lee

Harper Lee’s Life: author of To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee, born Nelle Harper Lee, was born on April 28 in 1926. From then, she grew on the be one of the best-known authors of the century and adored my many of her fans. Lee’s...

In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Calpurnia is the caretaker of Atticus Finch’s children, Scout and Jem, as well as a cook and housekeeper. Cal makes a strong effort to teach the children her morals and values. Cal displays kindness to many individuals throughout...

Harper Lee creates characters that contribute to the novels appeal to audiences of all ages. In To Kill a Mockingbird we learn lessons about life from both children and adults. There are three characters that are looked down on by society around them, one because...

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows the reader a time of social injustice and racial discrimination in the American South. The book tells the life of a young girl, Jean Louis Finch, who observes this discrimination around her and even experiences some bullying...

The place: Maycomb, Alabama, finalist for Most Boring Town in America. Few people move in, fewer move out, so it’s just the same families doing the same things for generation after generation. Like the Finches: Scout, her brother Jem, and their father Atticus. Every summer...

“Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome” (Rosa Parks). Prejudice will always remain in society, and it sure does in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird...

Harper Lee was born April 28th, 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama to Amasa Lee and Frances Finch. As the youngest of four children, Lee grew up as the tomboy in a small town. Her father was a lawyer and he owned part of the local newspaper....

As humans, we all change and become wiser as we grow, and Harper Lee’s novel perfectly encapsulates the essence of growth. To Kill a Mockingbird is a story of many messages, but most notably that of maturing in a society drenched in prejudice and inequality....

“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners” – Laurence Sterne. This quote by Laurence Sterne performs as the general idea of respect and equality in To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout the novel, Harper Lee creates occurrences that demonstrate respect, which...

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee was published in 1960. All through the novel, Harper Lee uses the character Scout to advance the invited reading that it is important to show empathy towards others, to walk in their shoes and consider things from their...

As a youthful and curious child, the small town that Scout Finch lived in seemed like the world. Since the book To Kill a Mockingbird was set in the south during the course of the 1930s, where she lived included a lot of prejudice and...

A novel in which every scene and detail has its meaning and a single item has symbolism is no other than To Kill A Mockingbird. To Kill A Mockingbird has many themes although one theme, in particular, develops over the course of the novel. In...

Harper Lee lived long enough for her to publish two novels, “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Go Set a Watchman”. The two are related to each other by talking about the same issues Jean Louise “Scout” Finch grew up with as a child (To Kill...

In To Kill A Mockingbird conformity often occurs in all the situations. Conformity causes the reality to be hidden and prohibits the characters to recognize what is right and what is wrong. The actions of many characters in To Kill A Mockingbird are truly unique...

As children grow, they learn many lessons and a variety of concepts about life, from tying shoelaces to tying ties. To Kill Mockingbird by Harper Lee covers a variety of subjects that educates both minorities and majorities. Harper Lee gives a child’s perspective which interprets...

Power is a word we hear frequently and use often; it means to have the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. My definition of power is possessing something others want such as money, knowledge, and...

In this story how to kill a mockingbird scout has changed her attitude in the ways a lot of people do like in her clothes,fighting, and by her taking up for things she believe not what other people believe.Scout is taught new things by questions...

Go Set a Watchman (1-278) In the sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird- Go Set a Watchman- we are reintroduced to Jean Louise Finch, also known as Scout. Many years have passed in the protagonist’s life; she is now in her mid-twenties, and has come...

To Kill a Mockingbird, a novel by Harper Lee shows multiple people deserving of compassion, during the hard times of the Great Depression. Mayella Ewell is a misunderstood girl who is exposed for her false and rude accusations against an innocent African American man. When...