Discussion: What does author Harper Lee seem to be trying to communicate about the power of language?
Think about the way Scout reacts to the names people call her father and also to her experimentation with impolite language
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What is Harper Lee’s message?
Harper Lee’s main message to the readers is
not to treat others according to who or what they are but according to their behaviours
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How does Harper Lee use language?
Harper Lee uses
colourful figurative language
(similes, metaphors, personification ) to create images in her readers’ minds.
How does Harper Lee’s use of diction contribute to the development of the characters within the novel?
In using language so skillfully, Harper Lee tells a gripping story, creates individual characters, and captures life in Maycomb. The language of the novel serves to
develop many of the local color elements in it
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Why does Harper Lee use local color?
Harper Lee uses a wealth of local color
to make the fictional Maycomb seem like a real place
. Local color writing emphasizes the peculiarities of a particular region. … Those details also help readers draw conclusions about characters, places, and future events.
How are Atticus and Uncle Jack alike?
Atticus takes a more hands-off approach to child-rearing than Jack.
Uncle Jack has no children
, and Atticus is raising his two children on his own. Atticus is a somewhat absent parent. He depends on Calpurnia, his housekeeper, to take care of his children and provide life lessons.
What is Harper Lee trying to say about humanity?
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee revealed that
humans often have other motives in life
; some are born to be evil in nature, some are naturally innocent and then there are some that are born to protect the innocent. Lee utilized a variety of symbols and themes that correlated with each other and thus had …
What is Harper Lee trying to teach us about prejudice?
It becomes apparent that Lee purposefully creates vulnerable and helpless characters that are subject to ongoing prejudice to make a comment on social issues at the time. She explores
how discrimination and forcing people to live in perpetual suffering was
a scapegoat to extreme poverty during the great depression.
What does TKAM teach us?
To Kill a Mockingbird taught us about
bravery, injustice, inequality, poverty, racism, corruption, hatred, oppression
, how we should judge people by their character and nothing else, how the people we are scared of are often not very frightening at all and how those we view as superior or in charge are sometimes the …
Why does Jem not ask Scout about Dill’s father?
Dill blushes and before he can answer, Jem tells
Scout to be quiet
. Jem is empathetic towards Dill’s feelings and understands that he doesn’t want to talk about his father. Unlike Jem, Scout cannot tell that Dill feels uncomfortable discussing his father. Jem also likes Dill and wants to be his friend.
How has Jems attitude about courage changed from the beginning of the story?
For example, Jem believes that he
is courageous for touching the side of the Radley home
and admires Atticus for shooting and killing a rabid dog. Jem admires physical acts of courage and does not understand the concepts of sacrifice and integrity, which reflects his naive perspective on life.
What type of language did Atticus use in the novel?
Atticus was using
a formal and straightforward language
in his speech which his words contained irony and humor. Jem and scout used a slang language because they were children . scout used a colorful words which included a figurative language to describe persons.
Why does Jem insist on recovering his pants?
The reason that Jem returns to the Radley yard to retrieve his pants is
because he does not want to disappoint his father
. Jem is maturing into a morally upright individual like Atticus and is considerate of his father’s feelings. Before Jem leaves to retrieve his pants, Scout begs him not to go.
What does the term local color mean?
Local colour, style
of writing derived from the presentation of the features and peculiarities of a particular locality and its inhabitants
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What about the jury’s deliberation gave Atticus a glimmer of hope and made his efforts worthwhile?
What about the jury’s deliberation gave Atticus a glimmer of hope and made his efforts worthwhile.
They took a long time and that gives him hope of an appeal
. What is Jem’s interpretation of the Maycomb caste system? What is happening to Jem?
What are the similarities between Aunt Alexandra and Uncle Jack?
Aunt Alexandra and Uncle Jack have several similarities. One
is their facial features that reminds Scout of each other
. In the book, the author says, “He and Aunty looked alike, but Uncle Jack made better use of his face: we were never wary of his sharp nose and chin.” (P. 103, paragraph 4).
