As Michael prepares to defend a PTSD-afflicted veteran charged with Murder I for killing his wife during a dissociative blackout, he begins to understand what Jolene is facing and to revisit his true feelings for her. When her helicopter is shot down under insurgent fire, Jo rescues Tami ...
The central idea of To Kill A Mockingbird revolves around the phrase, ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’ as it illustrates the racial prejudices of not only the black people against the white people, but also the judgments passed between people that off either the same or different race...
“To kill a Mockingbird”. I’m not so sure, but I believe it was a popular old classic..?! It was a pretty old book, I’m thinking maybe written in the 1930’s?! It was a paperback book, not very thick, Maybe a light matte gray color, easy to read but kinda boring. That...
mockingbirds as a symbol of purity and innocence, and Atticus defending Tom as a black man in a predominately white community. The novel wants the readers to come to a conclusion by the end of it; that being whether people are primarily good or bad. “One thing that doesn’t abide by...
At the end of the book, the sheriff declines to punish Boo Radley for killing Bob Ewell, saying, 'Let the dead bury the dead.' What does he mean by that? Do you agree with his decision? Why or why not? Become a member to unlock this lesson Create an account Questions...
has yielded to madness following the deaths of her mother, brother, and newborn child.She thinks all of these casualties are her fault, even though they’re all Faust’s fault. Confused and guilt-stricken, Gretchen refuses to leave, and Faust has the nerve to groan, “You are killing me...
To Kill a Mockingbird*, Robert Mulligan (1962, USA). It’s been hard to avoid mention over the past year or so of the novel from which this film was adapted – first because of the “prequel” and the controversy surrounding its publication, and then because of the death of the author...
“main character” will be the same person. But occasionally,these roles may be split, with the main character acting as an important observer to the protagonist’s actions. We see this with pairings such as Sherlock Holmes/John Watson and Atticus Finch/Scout Finch inTo Kill a Mockingbird. ...
Tolkien based “The Story of Kullervo” on a character in the Finnish poem “The Kalevala.” In the poem, the tragic Kullervo’s story includes “the death of his tribe and subsequent time as a slave before seeking redemption by killing those responsible for his tribe’s slaughter and, ulti...
This novel is the sequel to the classicTo Kill a Mockingbird, and it’s set nearly two decades later, in the 1950s. While the first book was supremely powerful, it was also quite straightforward in the ways that it defined right and wrong, good and bad. What I really like aboutWatchman...