Month January 2015

A theme from chapter 5 of To Kill A Mockingbird is empathy. Miss Maudie encourages Scout to empathise with Arthur Radley during their discussion on the porch. Harper Lee describes Miss Maudie as someone who ‘loved everything on God’s earth’,… Continue Reading →

“Miss Maudie hated her house: time spent indoors was time wasted.” Could be perceived as a metaphor. She wants to be amongst other living things, feeling the beauty of, what she believes to be, God’s earth. This could have been… Continue Reading →

In Chapter Two of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, shame influences the actions of three key characters, but none more so than in the case of Walter Cunningham. When offered 25¢ by Miss Caroline, the teacher, he refuses to… Continue Reading →