Foils in To Kill a Mocking Bird - 1703 Words

(If we look back to all the books we have read over the course of our life, we may see that a literary device commonly used by almost all writers would be foils. Foils are often put right next to one another, to emphasize the nature of each character, by putting a good character next to a presumably bad character, so that the bad character will look worse, but the good character will look exceedingly better. We have seen this writing technique in many different types of literature. For example, in mythology with the movie Troy, the foils were King Priam, and King Agamemnon. They may both be kings, but they have very different personalities. King Priam care not just for power, but he also cares for the people of his kingdom; however, King Agamemnon only cares about power.) (This idea of placing somewhat similar, yet mostly opposing characters side-by-side is also undoubtedly presented in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee does an incredible job of creating these opposing chara cters for Jam and Scout to encounter, so that they can learn what is right and wrong, and so that they could go from innocence to experience.) (In To Kill a Mockingbird, three foils are very highly valued in the children’s transition from their state of innocence to their state of experience; these three foils include, Miss Maudie Atkinson Miss Stephanie Crawford; Calpurnia and Lula; finally, with Atticus Finch and Mr. Gilmer.) (The use of foils is an astonishingly functional tool used toShow MoreRelatedCharacter Analysis Of Scout And Jem s Relationship2149 Words   |  9 Pages TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD KEY POINTS (useful website: shmoop) Central Relationship - Scout and Jem’s relationship is at the core of the novel Structure - The novel begins where it ends - Jem’s physical injury is symbolic of the permanent impact the event of the events of the novel have on the characters ‘his left was somewhat shorter than his right’ The Start of the problem - Scout and Jem disagree over the time the problems started - Scout thinks it was when Dill encouraged them to make Boo come outRead MoreA Mockingbird, By Harper Lee5251 Words   |  22 PagesZwierschke 1 Alicia Zwierschke Mrs. Reade ENG2D4 19 May 2015 Man’s Inhumanity to Man in â€Å"To Kill a Mockingbird† A mockingbird is a harmless bird that makes the world a more pleasant place. In â€Å"To Kill a Mockingbird†, by Harper Lee, the mockingbird symbolizes Boo Radley and Tom Robinson/ They were both more than peaceful people who never did harm, until a man’s inhumanity hurt them or ruined their life. This novel exposes the inhumanity through various scenario’s throughout the telling of Scout’sRead MoreAnalysis and response to 8 of the stories in Sandra Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek3961 Words   |  16 Pageswas. She then makes a reference to not being like other girls who go with men into alleys, and how she did not want it like that. Not against the bricks or hunkering in somebodys car. I wanted it come undone like gold thread, like a tent full of birds. The way I knew it would be when I met Boy Baby(Cisneros 28). This seems to me to be about sex, buy maybe I am crazy. But then at the bottom of page twenty-nine, It was there, that he showed me the guns - twenty-four in all. So youll see who I am