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From: Race & Class[(essay date July-September 2003) In the following essay, Saney discusses the media's response to the 1996 banning of To Kill a Mockingbird from the standard curricula of public schools in Nova Scotia.] For many years...
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From:Twentieth-Century Young Adult WritersHarper Lee's only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and established her place in young adult literature. Universal themes of justice, compassion, racism, and family love enrich this...
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From: The Alabama ReviewWhen Mark Twain stranded the steamboat Walter Scott on a rocky point in Chapter 13 of Huckleberry Finn, he rounded out an attack on Southern romanticism begun in Life on the Mississippi. There, as every reader knows, he...
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From: Southern Literary Journal[(essay date spring 2000) In the following essay, Chura discusses the representation of race and justice in To Kill a Mockingbird in the historical context of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s.] Though there is a...
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From: Studies in American FictionIn Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch's final hope in the defense of his black client accused of rape is that he may strike a favorable response in his summation to the south Alabama jury by appealing to...
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From: Michigan Law Review[(essay date May 1999) In the following essay, Lubet questions the standard perception of Atticus Finch as a role model for lawyers. Lubet provides an analysis of the trial portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird from the...
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From: On Harper Lee: Essays and Reflections[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Tavernier-Courbin discusses Lee's unexpected use of humor in To Kill a Mockingbird.] To Kill a Mockingbird is one of those rare books that expose some of the worst aspects of...
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From:Literature Resource Center[Felty is a visiting instructor at the College of Charleston. In the following essay, he explores how the narrative structure of To Kill a Mockingbird supports a reading of the novel as a protest against prejudice and...
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From: Explicator[(essay date summer 2003) In the following essay, Champion explicates the symbolic use of the terms "right" and "left" in To Kill a Mockingbird, arguing that "right" in the novel symbolizes virtue, while "left"...
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From: Indian Studies in American FictionTo Kill a Mockingbird is quite an ambiguous title, the infinitive leaving a wide scope for a number of adverbial queries—how, when, where, and, of course, why—all leading to intriguing speculation and suspense. One is...
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From: Southern Cultures[(essay date summer 2000) In the following essay, Crespino examines popular and critical responses to the representation of race and justice in To Kill a Mockingbird between the years 1960 and 2000.] Contemporary...
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From: Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints[In the following excerpt, May looks at the history of censorship attempts on To Kill a Mockingbird, which came in two onslaughts—the first from conservatives, the second from liberals.] The critical career of To Kill...
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From: Mississippi QuarterlyAunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing anything that...
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From: Michigan Law Review[(essay date May 1999) In the following essay, Althouse responds to the essay "Reconstructing Atticus Finch," by Steven Lubet. Althouse argues that Atticus is a model lawyer in the sense that he maintains the same high...
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From: Readings on "To Kill a Mockingbird"[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, originally published online in 1996 as "Symbolism in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird," Smykowski analyzes Lee's use of symbolism to explore issues of racism in the novel.]...
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From: Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961[(essay date 2005) In the following excerpted essay, Richards examines sexuality in Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, suggesting that the novel--probably unintentionally--subverts heterosexual norms through a lack of...
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From: The New York TimesDavid Guterson has been away from home for only two hours, but when he walks into the kitchen of his shingle-style bungalow, telephone messages line the door frame. An editor from People magazine has called. A...
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From: English Journal[(essay date October 1963) In the following excerpt, Schuster comments on the theme and structure of To Kill a Mockingbird.] Students enjoy reading To Kill A Mockingbird, but my experience has been that their...
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From: English Journal[(essay date November 2002) In the following essay, Jolley discusses her approach to teaching To Kill a Mockingbird to high school students in conjunction with the study of poetry treating themes of courage and...
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From: Michigan Law Review[(essay date May 1999) In the following essay, Atkinson responds to the essay "Reconstructing Atticus Finch," by Steven Lubet. Atkinson argues that, taking To Kill a Mockingbird on its own "childishly simplistic" moral...