To Kill a Mockingbird Notes - Characters, Themes & Quotes

The first 200 words of this essay...

Ways to introduce points:

* Harper Lee makes us aware...

* Lee presents...

* The author makes it clear that...

* Harper Lee evidently sympthaises with...

* Lee makes Scout say...

* Lee tells us through Scout...

* Harper Lee wants the reader to know that...

General

* Harper Lee's descriptions are vivid and cinematographic- one of the reasons. Perhaps why the novel translated so well into film.

* Referring to the epigraph and what it tells the reader about key themes will help to show your awareness of authorial purpose.

* Referring to any symbolism used by the author can be effective- for instance, the quiet, ominous feeling in the courtroom when the jury returns is like a old February morning, when mockingbirds were still. (ch21pg216)

* TKAMB is a novel with a mixture of nostalgia and criticism

* A microcosm of American society in the 1930s

* Consider the ideal of Southern Womanhood an women as delicate, fragile creatures, and how this would of affected and influenced men's feelings towards Mayella Ewell in the trial.

* Scouts naivety is highlighted when the narrator