杀死一只知更鸟英文毕业论文读后感

1、Reflection on Novel To Kill A Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird is the only successful novel of Harper Lee. The story takes place in Alabama during the Depression in the early 20th century. Three kids, Scout, Dill and Jim like the Mockingbird, a kind of Finch.they use their eyes to 见证了一个个事件的发生和结局。 Which delving into humanity, 法制，正义，道义 and issues of society under the setting of America。Short SummaryThe story takes place in Alabama during the Depression, and is narrated by the main character, a li

2、ttle girl named Jean Louise Scout Finch. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer with high moral standards. Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill are intrigued by the local rumors about a man named Boo Radley, who lives in their neighborhood but never leaves his house. Legend has it that he once stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors, and he is made out to be a kind of monster. Dill is from Mississippi but spends his summer in Maycomb at a house near the Finchs. The childre

3、n are curious to know more about Boo, and during one summer create a mini-drama they enact daily, which tells the events of his life as they know them. Slowly, the children begin moving closer to the Radley house, which is said to be haunted. They try leaving notes for Boo on his windowsill with a fishing pole, but are caught by Atticus, who firmly reprimands them for making fun of a sad mans life. Next, the children try sneaking over to the house at night and looking through its windows. Boos b

4、rother, Nathan Radley, who lives in the house, thinks he hears a prowler and fires his gun. The children run away, but Jem loses his pants in a fence. When he returns in the middle of the night to get them back, they have been neatly folded and the tear from the fence roughly sewn up. Other mysterious things happen to the Finch children. A certain tree near the Radley house has a hole in which little presents are often left for them, such as pennies, chewing gum, and soap carved figures of a lit

5、tle boy and girl who bear a striking resemblance to Scout and Jem. The children dont know where these gifts are coming from, and when they go to leave a note for the mystery giver, they find that Boos brother has plugged up the hole with cement. The next winter brings unexpected cold and snow, and Miss Maudies house catches on fire. While Jem and Scout, shivering, watch the blaze from near the Radley house, someone puts a blanket around Scout without her realizing it. Not until she returns home

6、and Atticus asks her where the blanket came from does she realize that Boo Radley must have put it around her while she was entranced by watching Miss Maudie, her favorite neighbor, and her burning house. Atticus decides to take on a case involving a black man named Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping a very poor white girl named Mayella Ewell, a member of the notorious Ewell family, who belong to the layer of Maycomb society that people refer to as trash. The Finch family faces harsh cr

7、iticism in the heavily racist Maycomb because of Atticuss decision to defend Tom. But, Atticus insists on going through with the case because his conscience could not let him do otherwise. He knows Tom is innocent, and also that he has almost no chance at being acquitted, because the white jury will never believe a black man over a white woman. Despite this, Atticus wants to reveal the truth to his fellow townspeople, expose their bigotry, and encourage them to imagine the possibility of racial

8、equality. Because Atticus is defending a black man, Scout and Jem find themselves whispered at and taunted, and have trouble keeping their tempers. At a family Christmas gathering, Scout beats up her cloying relative Francis when he accuses Atticus of ruining the family name by being a nigger-lover. Jem cuts off the tops of an old neighbors flower bushes after she derides Atticus, and as punishment, has to read out loud to her every day. Jem does not realize until after she dies that he is helpi

9、ng her break her morphine addiction. When revealing this to Jem and Scout, Atticus holds this old woman up as an example of true courage: the will to keep fighting even when you know you cant win. The time for the trial draws closer, and Atticuss sister Alexandra comes to stay with the family. She is proper and old-fashioned and wants to shape Scout into the model of the Southern feminine ideal, much to Scouts resentment. Dill runs away from his home, where his mother and new father dont seem interested in him, and stays in Maycomb for the summer of Toms trial. The night before the trial, Tom is moved into the county jail, and Atticus, fearing a possible lynching, stands guard outside the jail door all night. Jem is concerned about him, and the three children sneak into town to find him. A group of men arrive ready to cause some violence to Tom, and threaten Atticus in the process. At first Jem, Scout and Dill stand aside, but when she sen

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