To Kill a Mockingbird summary
Essay Topic:
The summary of the tragic events of Harper Lees To kill a mockingbird.
Essay Questions:
How is the injustice of the world depicted in the To Kill a Mockingbird?
Why do the social and racial stereotypes play such an important role for the society of the To Kill a Mockingbird?
What are the moral values of Scout and Jem?
Thesis Statement:
Harper Lees To kill a mockingbird is dramatic novel of a social character which describes the injustice of the world.
Introduction: “To kill a mockingbird” is an outstanding novel written by Harper Lee in the attempt to describe the life of the South United States in the 1930’s.It is very hard to underestimate the novel as it reveals how hard was to protect the honor of an innocent African American back in the 1930’s and by doing so any lawyer put under danger the security of his family.
The story is told by a little innocent girl by the name Scout who actually has to grow up fast in the next three years and the evens she observes become dramatic and full of racial and social injustice. She and her brother Jem learn that the world can be dangerous just because their father decided to prove the innocence of an African American. The girl is shocked by the way the world around her functions destroying and killing people only on the basis of the social and racial stereotypes. Throughout the book the children learn about the existence of social inequality and the evil in the people. At the same time with the help of their father and Boo Radley they learn that people can be good and can make right decisions in their strive for the truth and justice.
The book clearly shows how the moral values of Scout and Jem are formed and what kind of people they will be owing to the dramatic events they have experiences. The coward attack of Bob Ewell destroys all the innocence in the hearts of Jam and Scout converting them into grown-ups in just a second.
Conclusion: Harper Lee did a magnificent job by revealing the process of moral education of the characters of the book. She sets a very strong point that till the evil lives in people – more and more innocent “mockingbirds” will get killed.