Contains the Following
Big Genres:
Atticus's Diary Entries
An Alternate Ending
Two Newspaper Atrticles About Bob Ewell's Attack
Small Genres:
Obituary For Tom Robinson
Descripton Of How Jem Changed
Illustrations And Descriptions Of 3 Major Events
Atticus's Diary Entries
An Alternate Ending
Two Newspaper Atrticles About Bob Ewell's Attack
Small Genres:
Obituary For Tom Robinson
Descripton Of How Jem Changed
Illustrations And Descriptions Of 3 Major Events
Introduction
Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a classic piece of American literature, due to its powerful statement about society and racism of the southern United States during the 1930s. The themes in Harper Lee’s novel are explored in the following genres on this website.
Atticus’s diary entries show his conflicted feelings of dealing with what he knows is right and needs to be done and his desire to protect his children from all of the hate in the world; the entries document Atticus’s choice to take Tom’s case and how he uses it to teach his children and the entire town of Maycomb a lesson. The alternate ending to the story shows what could have happened if Tom Robinson was found innocent and how the story would have played in much differently because of it. The two newspaper articles on Bob Ewells attack on the children go in depth in the details of the attack but also don’t tell the whole truth because they omit Boo Radley’s part in the event to avoid publicizing him. Tom Robinson’s obituary explains Tom’s death and the affect that it has on his family, as well as Atticus’s and the rest of Maycomb as a whole. The description of how Jem changed from the beginning of the story to the end shows all of the little things that developed in Jem’s personality as well as the major traits that really dictated his actions and feelings late in the book, especially after the trial. The illustrations and descriptions of three major events paint a vivid picture of major scenes from the story and allow the viewer to see exactly what was going on during those intense parts of the story and truly experience the feelings of the characters in the book.
Doing these genres has made me really think about the issues presented in To Kill a Mockinbird and dig deeper to explore the intricacies of them, as well as present them in creative way to share what I have learned with everyone else. These genres explain the social problems and injustices that blacks living in the southern United States during 1930’s had to deal with, and the great courage people showed to live through and beyond them; as well as what set the wheels in motion for the great social change that followed a few decades later.
Atticus’s diary entries show his conflicted feelings of dealing with what he knows is right and needs to be done and his desire to protect his children from all of the hate in the world; the entries document Atticus’s choice to take Tom’s case and how he uses it to teach his children and the entire town of Maycomb a lesson. The alternate ending to the story shows what could have happened if Tom Robinson was found innocent and how the story would have played in much differently because of it. The two newspaper articles on Bob Ewells attack on the children go in depth in the details of the attack but also don’t tell the whole truth because they omit Boo Radley’s part in the event to avoid publicizing him. Tom Robinson’s obituary explains Tom’s death and the affect that it has on his family, as well as Atticus’s and the rest of Maycomb as a whole. The description of how Jem changed from the beginning of the story to the end shows all of the little things that developed in Jem’s personality as well as the major traits that really dictated his actions and feelings late in the book, especially after the trial. The illustrations and descriptions of three major events paint a vivid picture of major scenes from the story and allow the viewer to see exactly what was going on during those intense parts of the story and truly experience the feelings of the characters in the book.
Doing these genres has made me really think about the issues presented in To Kill a Mockinbird and dig deeper to explore the intricacies of them, as well as present them in creative way to share what I have learned with everyone else. These genres explain the social problems and injustices that blacks living in the southern United States during 1930’s had to deal with, and the great courage people showed to live through and beyond them; as well as what set the wheels in motion for the great social change that followed a few decades later.