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Family & Identity through To Kill a Mockingbird - Coggle Diagram
Family & Identity through To Kill a Mockingbird
Introduction of the Novel throughout Quotes
Meredith Veira
"Questions like: Who am I? appear with our own families"
Parul Sehgal
"The Novel is a good fit for families, becuase each family is a novel"
Shanna Peeples
"The Drama, the intresting stuff, happens in the disfunctional families"
Kevin Young
"I think that families help us to understand the world (...) and in books like To Kill a Mockingbird you see the way that Atticus Finch provides a model to Scout"
Biref Summary of the Book
Atticus Finch
He is a lawyer
Takes the case of Tom Robbinson
Black man acussed of raping a white woman
He is a Widower
He tries its best to raise Scout (Her Daughter) and Jem (Scout´s Brother)
The sense of "Missing a Mother" is constantly presented throughout the pages
Key Point
Atticus Finch tries to raise up his children
But in a community that it is broken, damaged and intolerant
Characteristics of the Book
Harper Lee inspires herself in the place she lived in, in order to make the town of the book
Hometown Monroeville, Alabama
Its Narrated in 1st Person
In order to make "Self-discovery"
Narrated by Scout Finch (Atticus Daughter)
Its inspired in real events that occured in Harper Lee´s childhood
The Big Theme of the Story
Scout Finch tells the way she sees things
How does she sees
Inequality
Everything conserving her innocence
Racism
Cultural Injustice
Scout´s Innocence
Makes her
Question herself about society
Maybe the people that she loved are not the ones she thought they were
Ask her dad
Who tries to explain her, in a way she can understand
Explanation of why all this inequality, racism and cultural injustice occurs