To Kill a Mockingbird theme essay plan

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To Kill a Mockingbird Theme essay
Plan

  • Darker side of life – prejudice! Explain why…
  • Link prejudice to injustice and explain
  • Setting – Maycomb behind the times!
  • Setting in time – Maycomb’s history and racial divide
  • Atticus as someone who is DIFFERENT from the rest…
  • Explore detailed differences between him and others
  • His particular courage
  • His qualities as a lawyer
  • The Ewells – what are they like?
  • The outcome of the trial and what it means
  • Boo Radley and Tom Robinson – how structure helps make a deeper point about prejudice (technique)
  • Sum up what you have learned about the darker side of life and how people try to cope with it by reading this book