Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Mr Waugh & Miss Andrews – Essay Feedback Rewrite- 21/5/15
Part A In this passage, Harper Lee uses many different details to present Miss Maudie’s view of Maycomb. Some of these details like her idea that Atticus was set-up to be Tom Robinson Lawyer, This brings the idea to mind that atticus is the best man for this case, This can be shown in many…
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Mr Waugh & Miss Andrews – Jem’s Realization of Maycomb – 12/05/2015 ( Remastered Copy)
In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem becomes more and more engrossed into the reality of the society that he lives in, as time goes on the racism that he encounters from the white community towards the black community in the book with quotes like ” Ni**er” and also “Ni**er Lover” being examples of…
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Miss Andrews & Mr Waugh – How does Harper Lee Satirise the White Community in To Kill A Mockingbird – To Kill A Mockingbird – 29/4/2015 – Chapter 22
In Chapter 22 of To Kill A Mockingbird after the courtroom case, Harper Lee continues the book whith the aftermath of the case in which the white community is satirised further in the book. Firsstly their is a distinct contrast between people in the white community and the black community in this chapter as Miss…
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Miss Andrews & Mr Waugh -Semantic Fields in To Kill A Mockingbird – 24/4/15 – Page 232
The Use Of Semantic Fields are completely present in To Kill A Mockingbird and on page 232 they are present in the courtroom scene in various ways. Firstly their are some word patterns in this peice of text like the usage of the words like: Empty, Creeping & Deserted all representing a darker presents in…
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Miss Andrews & Mr Waugh – Who’s a mockingbird – To Kill A Mockingbird – 21/4/2015
A Mockingbird to my understanding is somebody who doesn’t cause trouble to anyone has has an essence of innocnece to them as well as mockingbirds only make music for everyone to hear and doesn’t hurt anyone. One such example of a mockingbird is Boo Radley. One perspective of how Boo Radley is a mockingbird is…
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Mr Waugh & Miss Andrews – To Kill A Mockingbird – The hypocrisy in the missionary circle – 13/4/15
The quote in the text to kill a mockingbird spoken by Mrs Meriwether is a classic example of hypocrisy in the missionary circle with the line ” You are Simply not being a good Christian today” This line represent Miss Merriweathers attitude against other people which is not very Christian like as she is being…
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Mr Waugh and Miss Andrews – The Anti Hero Inside Of Atticus – 25/3/15
In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus is seen to be an anti-hero in many people eyes, there is many different reasons for this including him fitting into the idea of an anti hero being somebody who doesn’t conform to society, in this case being his views on racism which is completely different from…
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Mr Waugh – The discription of Boo radleys house – 23/3/15
In to kill a mockingbird, the description of the boo radley has in my opinion creates parallels between the house and boo radley, for example the dark moon above the house in my opinion shows the idea that boo radley has come to a dark part of his life and the dark moon resembles this…
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Mr Waugh – What do scout, Jem and the reader learn from their experiences in the finch household – To Kill A Mockingbird – 18/3/15
In To Kill A Mockingbird one of the major setting where we learn alot about what Jem, Scout and the readers learns alot from experiences is the finch household. In the book the finch household have a servant called calpurnia who is black but instead of having the books regular attitude of hatred towards black…
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Mr Waugh – Symbolism Of Book’s Time Period – 2/3/15
In the book their is several different interesting quotes that add a layer to the books overall ideas. For example when the court house comes into play it is described as a place where the concrete pillars aren’t supporting the weight of the courthouse and yet nobody has modified the building or add to it…
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