Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Our school is extremely humble, they don’t care about material things like resources for teaching or working computers.

Miss Maudie also credits Aaticus as a Christian by saying “We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are we have Atticus to go for us.” This shows that Miss Maudie has a very high opinion of Atticus and moreover agrees with his plight in the Tom Robinson. It also reinforcedes the…

In chapter 23 we see Jem forming some ideas about society. “There’s four kind of people in our world. There’s the ordinary kind like us and the neighbours, there’s the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dumb and the Negroes” From this quote we can…

Harper Lee satirises by juxtaposing the black and white communitie’s reactions to the courtcase. You can see the extreme contrast between the two societies because the black society shows gratitude to Atticus and they are mournful over the case whereas the white community are busy gossiping and making accusations. “Did Atticus put us up there…

The Mockingbird symbol is a recurring motif in the book and it represents someone who has had their innocence taken away from them and has been corrupted by the evil of the world. Jem is a very clear example of a mockingbird as he shows one of the largest character change in the novel. This…

We can learn from Harper Lee’s description of the courtroom lots about the racism of the society in Maycomb. For example the black people had to wait behind all the white people and let them all go into the courtroom before entering themselves; on top of this they sat in separate areas which implies complete…

The Ku Kluk Klan was split into three different eras. The first clan was started by a group of six confederate generals and slowly developed in to a clearer hierarchy. The main leader of the first klan was Nathan Bedford Forrest but George Gordon was also a big influence. William J. Simmons refounded the Ku…

This passage of To Kill a Mockingbird is different to most of the book as it involves the older scout speaking, which can be inferred from the maturity and deepness of the discription. It is definitely not the discription of a 9 year old girl. The passage contains lots of symbolism often referring to the…

Throughout To Kill a Mocking Bird Harper Lee makes her opinion apparent through the characters closer to Scout. She uses the characters that she designs to be likeable and popular with the reader to portray her point of view because it’s more likely to be accepted from a respectable character. For example Atticus is a…

They were on to me; any distraction could lead me into their hands. Scurrying my brain for any method of escape I almost killed myself in frustration at the fact that the only thoughts in my head were curses of the most recent government broadcast speach. As I was approaching the American City Market and…