To kill a Mockingbird Passion Project
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- 1. Setting: The setting of "To Kill a Mockingbird" is a rural town in south Alabama in the 1800's. The town was described as typical in the 1800s: wooden houses with a few houses with a thatch roof. The atmosphere made by the setting drives the story's tone to be more serious and straightforward. The setting is the most important thing in the novel because it supports the characters' dialogue and actions.2. Point of View: The novel is written in first person with no shifts in point of view. The first-person point of view develops a limited perspective for the main character, Scout, to be able to learn more as time progresses.3. Imagery: The book uses a lot of descriptive words to drive its imagery into the minds of readers all across the globe. An example of imagery in "To Kill a Mockingbird" is when Scout describes the Radley house, with creepy, and eerie words, like "deep" and "once white" which suggests that it is an older, and creepy residence. this seems to influence the idea that almost all descriptions of places in the story are gonna be described in great detail.4. Figurative Language: Figurative language is defined as "Of the nature of or involving a figure of speech" in the Oxford Dictionary. An example of figurative language in the story is in chapter 2 when scout describes her teacher as "She looked and smelled like a peppermint drop." This is a well thought out description, because she is dressed in all red with a little but of white for the first day of school.
- 5. Memorable quote: The memorable quote I have chosen is the quote that matches the scene I have chosen. It is the most famous monologue in the book, and it is simply known as "Atticus' closing argument". The quote is long, which is why I am on a completely different panel. The quote is "Gentlemen, I shall be brief, but I would like to use my remaining time with you to remind you that this case is not a difficult one, it requires no minute sifting of complicated faces but, it does require you to be sure beyond all reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the defendant. To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. This case is as simple as black and white... She was white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. Not an uncle, but a strong young Negro man. No code mattered to her before she broke it, but it came crashing down on her afterward... We do know in part what Mr. Ewell did: he did what any God-fearing, persevering, respectable white man would do under the circumstances swore out a warrant, no doubt signing it with his left hand, and Tom Robinson now sits before you, having take the oath with the only good hand he possess-his right hand... You know the truth, and the truth is: some Negroes lie, some Negroes are immoral, some Negro men are not to be trusted around women-black or white. But this truth applies to the human race and no particular race of men. There is not one person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and no man is living who has never looked upon a woman without desire... One more thing, gentlemen, before I quit. Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase the Yankees and the distaff of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase out of context, to satisfy all conditions... We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people who run public education promote the stupid and idle with the industrious- because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, and children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority... But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court... Gentlemen, a court is no better than each of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up. I am confident that you gentlemen will review without passion the evidence you have heard come to a decision, and restore this defendant to his family. In the name of God, do your duty." This quote is impactful to the story because it expresses how we as humans should set aside race and treat each other like humans, and not like we aren't equals.
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