A good To Kill a Mocking Bird Thesis

I'd chuck fear in the mix.

What would you say the overriding theme of the book was? In ten words or less.

Ignorance breeds racism and religion, fear, and sterotypes strengthen it
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Only with the innocence of a child . . . i dont know?

http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/Belmont_HS/tkm/

http://www.homework-online.com/tkamb/index.asp

I thought it was 'don't judge a book by its cover' - only read it two years ago.

Themes are notoriously simple.

I'm just not sure if ignorance is what created the attitudes of the white majority or if ignorance is the label we place on them because of their attitudes.

I thought the parallels between what the community wanted to believe of the black defendant neatly parallelled the kid's views of Boo Radley - it was just easier to expect the worst, and not to look for reasons and underlying causes. It's a call for empathy in my book. And I think the community's attitude must also have an underlying cause and they too are deserving of empathy - even the father and the daughter accusers have their reasons for lying (to themselves and to the court).

I remember the community's caste system that our narrator/protagonist uncritically describes; this family's progeny will always do this etc. Biological determinism.

This won't help you at all, but it's damn funny. It requires flash and sound: http://www.stanford.edu/~scodary/tkam.htm

What happens at the end Cav? It hung just as the ninjas were attacking the castle in the rain to get the last copy of the book that explains how to kill the giant robot bird that stole the treasure from the pirate...

hingehead, I had the same problem when trying to watch it through A2K, so I just saved the link to my hard drive, and it ran fine.

No. Simply base your thesis on the flash movie. You shall win.

You may be right kelly.

Holy crap, sorry about formatting issues . . . why doesnt it go on exactly the way you copied it?

Excellent report, Etruscia! Does your school require APA or MLA conventions for your submissions?

The text box doesn't copy formatting, unfortunately - just text.

yes, MLA formatting, I have it in perfect MLA form on Word, but unfortunately the formatting didnt work on the forum. Thanks, I had to write and excellent essay considering my English Teacher wrote her Thesis on To Kill A mocking Bird.

I must say, especially as a former professor myself, that I am disappointed to se absolutely no reference to the flash animation... :-)

Aww, well i did my best.

Hey, Thumbs up! I got a 96% on it.

"Things aren't always as they appear" pretty much works for anything.