Imagine that you were living in Maycomb County, Alabama during the time of To Kill a Mockingbird and there were different gender roles such as The Southern Gentleman and The Southern Lady and Belle. In my opinion, Atticus represents the ideal Southern Gentleman. Also Miss Maudie represents the ideal Southern Lady.
To begin, Atticus represents the ideal Southern Gentleman. According to the document," The commandment of the code of the gentleman... dictated a recognition of the inherent inequality of man and the acceptance of the idea that certain men were born to and that others, the great majority, ...
Society's Standards In the late 1800's, as well as the early 1900's, women felt discriminated against by men and by society in general. Men generally held discriminatory and stereotypical views of women. Women had no control over themselves and were perceived to be nothing more than property to men. They were expected to live up to a perfect image...
In the book, , C.S. Lewis defined Edmund as a dynamic character. He changed tremendously throughout the book. At first, Edmund was selfish, greedy, spiteful, deceitful, and dishonest. However, toward the end he changed and was no longer self-centered and he was quiet. In the beginning Edmund was very selfish because he left to go with the witc...
The book tells of Holden Caulfield's insight about life and the world around him. Holden shares many of his opinions about people and leads the reader on a 5 day visit into his mind. Holden, throughout the book, made other people feel inferior to his own. I can relate to this because although I do not view people inferior to myself, I do judge ot...
then to Oxford. He was a brilliant man, and became a succesful writer of short stories in the twenties and thirties. He also wrote essays and novels, like ''. The first novels he wrote were comments on the young generation, with no goal whatsoever, that lived after WW I. Before he became the writer as we know him, he worked as a journalist and a cr...
Many people from all over the world dream of living in America. America has wealth, industry and prosperity and to many people this is happiness. Advancement in industry, however, has not always led to tremendous advancements in living. For some, society has created mass wealth. For most, mass society has created a standard of living that is diffic...