Assignment
Your assignment is to write a passage analysis of a key coming-of-age scene from To Kill a Mockingbird. After annotating the text to analyze Harper Lee’s use of literary elements in your selected passage, write an essay explaining how the literary elements in this passage help develop a theme of this novel.
Your assignment is to write a passage analysis of a key coming-of-age scene from To Kill a Mockingbird. After annotating the text to analyze Harper Lee’s use of literary elements in your selected passage, write an essay explaining how the literary elements in this passage help develop a theme of this novel.
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Primary characters who are multi-dimensional include: Atticus, Scout, Jem, Dill, Miss Maudie, Calpurnia, Arthur(Boo) Radley and Aunt Alexandria.
Secondary characters who help develop themes include: Miss Caroline (fear/injustice), Miss Stephanie (gossip), Mrs. Dubose (courage/racism), Mrs. Meriweather (hypocrisy), Mayella Ewell (ignorance/scapegoating), Bob Ewell (violence), Tom Robinson (innocence), Mr. Radley & Nathan Radley (intolerance), Heck Tate (the law), Judge Taylor (justice), Mr. Walter Cunningham (individual in mob/hardworking poor farmer), Walter Cunningham, Jr. (poverty), Cousin Francis (familial disapproval).
Secondary characters who help develop themes include: Miss Caroline (fear/injustice), Miss Stephanie (gossip), Mrs. Dubose (courage/racism), Mrs. Meriweather (hypocrisy), Mayella Ewell (ignorance/scapegoating), Bob Ewell (violence), Tom Robinson (innocence), Mr. Radley & Nathan Radley (intolerance), Heck Tate (the law), Judge Taylor (justice), Mr. Walter Cunningham (individual in mob/hardworking poor farmer), Walter Cunningham, Jr. (poverty), Cousin Francis (familial disapproval).
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Theme Ideas
from To Kill a Mockingbird *Good, Evil, Human Dignity *Prejudice/Racism *Growing up *Courage *Social Inequality *Small town life in the South *Education *Perspective |
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Plot summary of the start of the story. (from Wikipedia)
The story takes place during three years (1933–35) of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama, the seat of Maycomb County. It focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch, who lives with her older brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt each summer. The three children are terrified of, and fascinated by, their neighbor, the reclusive "Boo" Radley. The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo, and, for many years few have seen him. The children feed one another's imagination with rumors about his appearance and reasons for remaining hidden, and they fantasize about how to get him out of his house. After two summers of friendship with Dill, Scout and Jem find that someone leaves them small gifts in a tree outside the Radley place. Several times the mysterious Boo makes gestures of affection to the children, but, to their disappointment, he never appears in person.
The story takes place during three years (1933–35) of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb, Alabama, the seat of Maycomb County. It focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch, who lives with her older brother, Jem, and their widowed father, Atticus, a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt each summer. The three children are terrified of, and fascinated by, their neighbor, the reclusive "Boo" Radley. The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo, and, for many years few have seen him. The children feed one another's imagination with rumors about his appearance and reasons for remaining hidden, and they fantasize about how to get him out of his house. After two summers of friendship with Dill, Scout and Jem find that someone leaves them small gifts in a tree outside the Radley place. Several times the mysterious Boo makes gestures of affection to the children, but, to their disappointment, he never appears in person.
Atticus Finch
Dill
Tom Robinson
Boo Radley to the right played by what famous actor?
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Jem and Scout Finch
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