Summaries
The book “To kill a Mockingbird” is set in a fictional town, Maycomb found in Alabama. In part one, the protagonist Scout Finch narrates the story of her childhood experience when racial discrimination was at its peak. At the commencement of the novel, Scout and Jem, the key characters are at a childhood when the town witnesses an increased number of violence cases relating to racial discrimination. At a tender age, they get exposure to the dark side of humanity.
On part two, some of the incidences they witness are the guilty findings of one Mr. Tom Robinson plus the implacableness of Bob Ewell (Mills, p 4). Through the novel’s evolution, the two young characters put effort in upholding the faith they have in humankind. They had great faith despite the recurring cases of manslaughter in Maycomb. At childhood, they developed an obsession on their neighbor Boo Radley who is symbol of a mockingbird. They have an increasing number of stumble upon with him during their playtime.
The third part describes Atticus getting the responsibility of representing a black man in court as his defendant. During these incidences, the writer informs the reader of an additional case scenario where Tom Robinson is facing charges against rape brought forward by Bob Ewell. The book’s center of attention is the coexistence of good and iniquity among humans. Additionally, it educates its readers on the significance that results from practicing moral education (Mills, p 4). These aspects build interracial relations thus putting aside societal class in a society with different people.
Quotation Exercise
1. To suggest, “A natural dramatist, Roosevelt was able to project charm both in public and appearance and in those radio “fireside chats” in which he seemed to be taking the whole country into his confidence” (Morison).
2. To remark that, “so, there is nothing new under the sun” (Solomon).
3. “Narratives are relatively safe or innocuous place,” since they hardly condemn, “in which the reigning assumptions of a given culture can be criticized” (J. Hillis Miller).
4. To argue that, “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation” (Henry David Thoreau).
5. To propose, “Narratives are a relatively safe or innocuous place in which the reigning assumptions of a given culture can be criticized” (J. Hillis Miller).
6. “He is the rock of defense for human nature;” represents a significant role as, “an upholder and preserver carrying everywhere with him relationship love” (William Wordsworth)
7. “Man is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed the only one that preys systematically on its own species.”
8. To claim, “So there is nothing new under the sun” (Solomon).
9. “Medical thinking stressed air as the communicator of disease ignoring sanitation or visible carries”
10. To announce that, “narratives are relatively safe or innocuous place in which the reigning assumptions of a given culture can be criticized” (J. Hillis Miller).
11. “The millions are awake enough for physical labor;” to emphasize it, “but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life” (Henry David Thoreau)
12. To declare, “No soup for you” (the “Soup Nazi”).
13. Morison cites, “no American President has been a success without a prior political experience; and Roosevelt had had plenty of that, in the New York assembly, the governor’s chair, and as assistant secretary of the navy. In addition, he had political acumen, a sense of the ‘art of the possible,’ and knew how to work through established political machinery. Not claiming omniscience- ‘there is no indispensable man,’ he said in a campaign speech – he summoned all manner of experts to Washington to furnish ideas and formulate legislation to get the country out of its desperate plight.”
14. To point out that, “A natural dramatist, Roosevelt was able to project his personal charm both in public appearance and in those radio ‘fireside chats’ in which he seemed to be taking the whole country into his confidence” (Morison).
15. “No American President has been a success without a prior political experience; and Roosevelt had had plenty of that, in the New York assembly, the governor’s chair, and as assistant secretary of the navy. In addition, he had political acumen, a sense of the ‘art of the possible,’ and knew how to work through established political machinery. Not claiming omniscience- ‘there is no indispensable man,’ he said in a campaign speech – he summoned all manner of experts to Washington to furnish ideas and formulate legislation to get the country out of its desperate plight”
16. To declare that, “The New Deal forever changed the way people look at government; regardless of their beliefs about laissez faire, most people were willing to admit that some government intervention in the nation’s economy was not only wise, but necessary” (H. Smith).
17. To proclaim, “Four score and seven-years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” (Abraham Lincoln).
18. He (ate, drank, rode, talked, fought, killed) and laughed.
19. To find, “Why do we say ‘Bless you!’ or something else when people sneeze but not acknowledge coughs, hiccups, and other eruptions” (the lecturer).
20. To prove, “He is the rock (defending human nature as an upholder and preserver) carrying everywhere with him relationship and love” (William Wordsworth; said of the Poet).
21. To point out, “What is a Poet” (William Wordsworth).
22. To note, “A natural dramatist, Roosevelt was able to project his personal charm both in public appearances and in those radio ‘fireside chats’ in which he seemed to be taking the whole country into his confidence”
23. To emphasize, “Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity” (Henry David Thoreau).
24. “No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone,” (T. S. Eliot) “his significant, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artist.”
25. To conclude, “The New Deal forever changed the way people look at government; regardless of their beliefs about laissez faire, most people were willing to admit that some government intervention in the nation’s economy was not only wise, but necessary” (H. Smith)
Work Cited
Mills, Catriona. Harper Lee’s to Kill a Mockingbird. Melbourne: Insight Publications, 2010. Print.
