Analyse how the experiences of one or more characters were used for a particular purpose.
Scout
Innocence and development.
Purpose
Highlight prejudice.
Examples
Paragraph 1: Racism, Tom’s court case.
Paragraph 2: Sexism, Aunt Alexander treatment of Scout, her brother, “Aunt Alexander was fanatical on the subject of my attire”
Paragraph 3: Class prejudice, Walter.
Analyse the connection between the setting and one or more themes.
Setting
Maycomb, Southern states of American in the 1930’s. Jim Crow laws, segregation.
Theme – Prejudice
Paragraph 1: Racism
Paragraph 2: Class separation
Paragraph 3: Sexism
Examples
Theme – Prejudice
Paragraph 1: Historical Maycomb itself
Paragraph 2: Social Sexist Racist
Paragraph 3: Physical, Town layout, segregation.
Analyse how supposedly insignificant events or details revealed one or more significant themes.
Boo Radley, shows how readers jump on the bandwagon to easily judge people. Lee used Boo as a underlying device to make a symbol of prejudice itself.
Boo
Events associated to him presented theme of prejudice.
Paragraph 1: Pants.
Paragraph 2: Fire and Blanket.
Paragraph 3: The gifts in the hole of the tree.
Prejudice
Paragraph 1: Walter in class.
Paragraph 2: Dolphus Raymond.
Paragraph 3: Aunt Alexander’s tea party.
Analyse how one or more ideas in the text served as a warning to readers.
Setting: Maycomb 1930’s. Divison, Segregation, Multiple levels of prejudice.
Warning: Highlight Lee’s intention of not judging to be free of prejudice.
Examples:
BP1 – Town itself and social context of the 30’s.
BP2 – Court house.
BP3 – School.