to kill a mockingbird?
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www.sparknotes.com\nIt is such a life saver!
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Wow,I'm studying it for literature this year.Are you?Well,here are some websites:\n\nhttp://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/\nhttp://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/killmockingbird/\nhttp://www.aresearchguide.com/mock.html\n\nThe rest are mentioned in the previous answer.Hope this helps :)
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She's afraid she will become a lesbian. \nFootnote: Harper Lee based her characters on people she knew and the town on Monroeville, AL. Atticus was based on her father, Dill was Truman Capote. There have been rumors for decades that Capote actually wrote the book and let his childhood friend Harper Lee submit it for publication for herself.
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How classic of a movie are we talking about here?\n\nAnnie in "Sleepless in Seattle"  or\nthe little girl that played Scout in "Too Kill a Mockingbird"
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To Kill a Mocking Bird. I just like it because it's a good book.
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Scout in To Kill a Mockingbird.  I always said I would marry a girl like Scout, and I did!
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Actually, I think it's both. Mockingbirds imitate segments of songs from other birds, as well as other environmental sounds, thaty may include car alarms, horses, and other loud and fairly high noises.\nBut what they produce from these different parts is unique. I've often stopped and looked up into a tree, wondering what type of bird could sing like that (some entirely new song, but which sounded a little familiar) and I've seen a proud mockingbird exhibiting on a branch :-)\nEven when they imitate a specific bird very closely, they add their own style to the song.
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It's a pretty dark book, in its theme of imprisonment. It's probably a good book to do a report on though because there are a lot of good literary themes and devices. Also it's a classic - go for it.
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I sure did!!\n\nIt was one of my favorite books when I was younger.\n\nRoll of Thunder is part of a trilogy surrounding the Logan family (other two books are Let the Circle Be Unbroken and The Road to Memphis) The protagonist is Cassie Logan and this is a basically a coming of age story set against the backdrop of what would be impending social change (i.e. the Civil Rights Movement) because the novella takes place in the 1930s.\n\nAnyway, to answer your first question, the location did matter. Mississppi, along with Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina are commonly referred to as the Deep South. In this region, racism and segregation were more blatant through the enactment of laws known as Jim Crow. It was also in this region (though really everywhere) that civil liberties of African Americans were violated and extreme antagonistic actions were taken against them (kidnappings, lynchings, etc.) by such groups like the Klu Klux Klan.\n\nThis is important because the Logan family actually owned land (a farm) in Mississippi. Property rights were so important to African Americans because they were denied for some time. Because of this, there was great pride in the Logan family; Cassie actually lived a pretty sheltered existence.\n\nYou have read the book so you know about the events that happen throughout the plot. It were those events that causes Cassie to sober up about what was happening to the idyllic world she once knew as social tensions began to escalate.\n\nThis book is actually a reflection of Mildred D. Taylor's personal experiences growing up during this time in America that proceded what was commonly referred to as the Civil Rights Movement (although in all actuality the Civil Rights Movement began FAR before 1955). She is actually from Mississppi, so that would be another reason for the location.\n\nYou can also go to Amazon.com and read their plot summary as well as Wikipedia to read Mildred D. Taylor's biography. Good luck!
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Not sure if you can.\n\nREAD the book and WATCH the FILM. BOTH are outstanding and McMurtry is one of those amazing writers that can literally make you see and feel what he's writing. He's an absolute joy to read.\n\n(FWIW, they were EXTREMELY CLOSE in content!)
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Any of the classics .... some of my favorites include To Kill a Mockingbird, Robinson Crusoe, The REd BAdge of Courage, The Sun Also Rises, Of Mice and Men, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Heart of DArkness, Of Human Bondage, The HObbitt, Lord of the Rings, War and Peace, Doctor Zhivago ... should keep you busy for a while.  Good luck with it.
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To Kill a Mocking Bird (by Harper Lee) is written as from the perspective of an eight-year old girl - Scout.  \n\nAt this stage in the book, a new teacher, Miss Caroline Fisher, has already told Scout that her father should stop teaching her to read (although Scout is self-taught).  Miss Caroline and Scout were obviously on a collision course of sorts.\n\nAfter asking everyone who is having lunch at school to place their lunch at the front, Miss Caroline realises that Walter Cunningham has not brought his forward.  She pretty much forces him to say he had forgotten it, and then proceeds to offer him a quarter in order for him to buy his lunch - with the proviso that he returns the quarter the following day.  The Cunninghams are dirt poor farm people, and Walter never brings lunch to school, and certainly could never repay cash to Miss Caroline, so she has to keep prompting him to come and get the quarter.  He won't budge.  Everyone else is local and knows the circumstances of Walter's family ... and uneasily they say:\n\n"Go on and tell her, Scout".\n\n"I turned round and saw most of the town people and the entire bus delegation looking at me.  Miss Caroline and I had conferred twice already, and they were looking at me in the innocent assurance that familiarity breeds understanding."\n\n++++++++++\n\nI hope the above is of help.
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When you were growing up, wasn't there a neighbor that you had that all the kids had stories about?  That person/house is evil?  That's pretty normal to have (we had one in our neighborhood... guy who would kill you if you walked through his woods...or so we told each other, of course he was probably a perfectly nice guy... but these stories happen).  That's who Boo is.  Also, I think that Boo is a "mockingbird"... symbolically (so is the defendant).  There are several.  Dill dares Jem to run up an touch the door.  Hope that helps.
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I did that book at school too. very powerful book. harper lee is a great author. Favourite book? Red Dragon by thomas harris is good, as is the film. I love my horror books.
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There is an obvious vilian in the story\nthere is horror especially  at the end of the book\nThe book has some dark moments a white women fasely accusing a black man of rape when actually it was her father\nI can't remember her name the lady who Scout read to it reminded me of Miss Havisham  in Great Expectations -Gothic novel\nto kill a mocking bird- Edgar Allen Poe the "Raven" another Gothic story there are some cahracteristics in both\nI think there are some supernatural events in the book particularly around  “Boo” Radley
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There's no right answer but that's what I'd say.\nI' d say that outside the courthouse, Mr Cunningham went with the others not because it was what he believed but because it was what everyone else believed and what he thought he should believe - he was blinded from the truth.\nIt took Scout talking to him normally and casually that made him see sense - see what he was doing and the consequences of it. She made him think about his own son and it was then that he realised how what eh was doing was wrong. Just like he had a son, Atticus had children and it's not just about hurting Atticus because he's trying to conform to the town's racist ways. There's a bigger picture, and if he did something to Atticus, he would be doing something to two young children's Father as well.\nSo Scout reminding him of his Son, made him consider Atticus and the fact that he had a life of his own and children to care for etc.
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The second person already said it.I'll explain it a little more. Boo actually stabbed Bob Ewell,but Heck Tate didn't want to bring him out in the limelight.Boo would have to go to court,but like Scout tells Atticus,this would be just like 'killing a mockingbird',because Boo stabbed Bob Ewell to save Scout,so he is still innocent.He does not deserve to go to court,you see.\nHowever,Atticus thinks Jem stabbed Bob Ewell,but realises it is Boo in the end.There,done.Did I make you more confused?^_^"