A review of the books mentioned in To Kill a Mockingbird our understanding of many characters and themes. Two books of particular importance, Ivanhoe and The Gray Ghost – as these two are of particular importance and are mentioned relatively more than the others, but also other more minor books such as The Rover Boys, Tarzan, Tom Swift, Meditations of Joshua S. . St. Clair and Popular Mechanics magazine. Tarzan, The Rover Boy and Tom Swift are all mentioned very early in the book and all in one sentence. They are mentioned by Jean-Louise as the books that they (being Jem, Dill, and Jean) recalled in their summer games. All three of these books are about raising children, a central and complex theme of Lee's novel. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essayTarzan is about a wild child: John Clayton, son of two abandoned Englishmen: Alice and John. Clayton, is adopted by the monkey Kala, after his parents were killed by the monkey king Kerchak. It may be important to remember that Tarzan – the name Clayton the apes give him – literally means “white skin” in the ape language. It is this difference between Tarzan and his adopted ape family that drives Tarzan away. Aside from the obvious theme of growth that is evident in both Tarzan and To Kill a Mockingbird, there is the theme of a different appearance, ironically in Tarzan it is white skin and in To Kill a Mockingbird it is black skin , which drives a wedge between people. Both The Rover Boys and Tom Swift are about children who think differently than adults. The Rover Boys is about a group of kids - Sam, Tom and Dick - who run around almost completely unsupervised (slightly reminiscent of Jem, Dill and Jean) solving crimes and keeping adults from doing wrong. For example, in The Rover Boys in School the boys manage to get one of their father's business enemies, and part-time criminal, Arnold Baxter, arrested after procuring Dick's watch - which had been given to him by his father many years ago - from a wanderer. Tom Swift is about a child inventor and his way of tinkering and inventing through his father's company, Swift Construction Company. Over the course of the series Tom develops inventions such as the "electric rifle", a sort of Taser gun and the "photo phone". In my opinion both series are largely about how young people think differently and sometimes more expansively than adults. This theme is also present in To Kill a Mockingbird where Lee makes the point that children, especially Jean and Jem, think more innocently and sometimes more purely than adults. This is demonstrated in the scene outside the court where Mr. Dolphus Raymond is not afraid to show the children that he is not actually a drunkard but is only pretending to be one, so that they can understand. At the end of the book, Jem is seen reading from Popular Mechanics magazine and it suggests to me that he has grown up. In my opinion, the fact that Lee decided to move Jem from a book about an entrepreneur – Tom Swift – to reading about the inventions of others in Popular Mechanics shows us that Jem has grown up, a very important theme in To Kill a Mockingbird, and As he grew up he lost the advantages of a child's mind, the ability to sympathize and understand those around him without prejudice. Ivanhoe appears in To Kill a Mockingbird as the book Jem reads to Mrs. Dubose to atone for the destruction of her flowers. Ivanhoe was published in the early 19th century by Sir Walter Scott about England after the failed Third Crusade. The book is about Ivanhoe, an Englishman from the 12th centurycentury, who returns from a campaign in the Holy Land.During the novel, Ivanhoe's fiancée is kidnapped by one of the main antagonists: Sir Brian de-Boise Gilbert. De-Boise is a corrupt Knight Templar and close friend of Prince John. During a trial for the life of Ivanhoe's aspirant, which is resolved by a confrontation between Ivanhoe and de-Boise, de-Boise suffers a heart attack and dies. The returned King Charles takes this as a sign of his guilt and Ivanhoe's than-expected innocence. I think Lee chose to read this book to Mrs. Dubose for a very specific reason. In my opinion, the fact that the name de-Boise is pronounced very similarly to that of Mrs. Dubose is no coincidence. I believe the reason for this is that we as readers understand what Lee's true opinion of Mrs. Dubose is. This opinion is that, although she is portrayed as courageous and virtuous, the fact that her death is so similar to de-Boise's proves that she is in fact guilty. The fact that she died bravely does not make her regret her wickedness towards Jem, Jean and everyone in general. The irony of this is that while Jem is there repenting for his actions, actions that are destroying Mrs. Dubose's flowers and Jean's witness, Mrs. Dubose is there supposedly repenting for all the meanness in her life, but in reality just adds to it by making Jem and Jean's time there terrible. The book Meditations of Joshua S. St. Clair is mentioned in To Kill a Mockingbird when it is brought by Jean and Jem's Aunt Alexandra as she is trying to impress upon them the importance of their family's legacy. Throughout the book, the idea of family classification and family inheritance is very important. The idea of family classification is that each family has a “streak,” as Aunt Alexandra put it, or a characteristic that each member of that family displays. You can see it from the beginning of the book where Jean says it is "a source of shame to some members of the family that we have no ancestors recorded on either side of the Battle of Hastings", the Battle of Hastings being a battle that was fought between the Anglo-Saxon king Harold II and Duke William II of Normandy in 1066. The family characteristics can be seen very clearly when Jean describes Walter Cunningham to Miss Caroline. As he describes his predicament to her, he uses phrases like "he's a Cunningham" and "The Cunninghams never took anything they couldn't repay," as if all Cunninghams act and think the same. All of this can be seen in the way Aunt Alexandra talks to Jem and Jean about their cousin Joshua. She describes him as "a beautiful character" while Atticus, not so romantic when it comes to family legacy, had described Joshua to his children as he was: a sewer inspector who had tried to kill the president and who had cost his life. family quite a bit of money after failing horribly. I believe Harper Lee brought the book so we could appreciate the different approaches to family that are so important in the Finch family. On the one hand, there is Aunt Alexandra who romanticizes her family's past, while making it grander and more arrogant with each telling. Atticus' approach is based on facts. Furthermore, Atticus doesn't feel the need to exaggerate his family history or even mention it; Atticus is a man of the present, not a romantic of the past. The story of the Gray Ghost is only mentioned twice in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It is about a group of young scoundrels led by Hawkins who clash with their old antagonist: Stoner's Boy. At the beginning of the novel, they glimpse Stoner's Boy, who leaves their.

Topic > A review of the books mentioned in To Kill a Mockingbird our understanding of many characters and themes. Two books of particular importance, Ivanhoe and The Gray Ghost – as these two are of particular importance and are mentioned relatively more than the others, but also other more minor books such as The Rover Boys, Tarzan, Tom Swift, Meditations of Joshua S. . St. Clair and Popular Mechanics magazine. Tarzan, The Rover Boy and Tom Swift are all mentioned very early in the book and all in one sentence. They are mentioned by Jean-Louise as the books that they (being Jem, Dill, and Jean) recalled in their summer games. All three of these books are about raising children, a central and complex theme of Lee's novel. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essayTarzan is about a wild child: John Clayton, son of two abandoned Englishmen: Alice and John. Clayton, is adopted by the monkey Kala, after his parents were killed by the monkey king Kerchak. It may be important to remember that Tarzan – the name Clayton the apes give him – literally means “white skin” in the ape language. It is this difference between Tarzan and his adopted ape family that drives Tarzan away. Aside from the obvious theme of growth that is evident in both Tarzan and To Kill a Mockingbird, there is the theme of a different appearance, ironically in Tarzan it is white skin and in To Kill a Mockingbird it is black skin , which drives a wedge between people. Both The Rover Boys and Tom Swift are about children who think differently than adults. The Rover Boys is about a group of kids - Sam, Tom and Dick - who run around almost completely unsupervised (slightly reminiscent of Jem, Dill and Jean) solving crimes and keeping adults from doing wrong. For example, in The Rover Boys in School the boys manage to get one of their father's business enemies, and part-time criminal, Arnold Baxter, arrested after procuring Dick's watch - which had been given to him by his father many years ago - from a wanderer. Tom Swift is about a child inventor and his way of tinkering and inventing through his father's company, Swift Construction Company. Over the course of the series Tom develops inventions such as the "electric rifle", a sort of Taser gun and the "photo phone". In my opinion both series are largely about how young people think differently and sometimes more expansively than adults. This theme is also present in To Kill a Mockingbird where Lee makes the point that children, especially Jean and Jem, think more innocently and sometimes more purely than adults. This is demonstrated in the scene outside the court where Mr. Dolphus Raymond is not afraid to show the children that he is not actually a drunkard but is only pretending to be one, so that they can understand. At the end of the book, Jem is seen reading from Popular Mechanics magazine and it suggests to me that he has grown up. In my opinion, the fact that Lee decided to move Jem from a book about an entrepreneur – Tom Swift – to reading about the inventions of others in Popular Mechanics shows us that Jem has grown up, a very important theme in To Kill a Mockingbird, and As he grew up he lost the advantages of a child's mind, the ability to sympathize and understand those around him without prejudice. Ivanhoe appears in To Kill a Mockingbird as the book Jem reads to Mrs. Dubose to atone for the destruction of her flowers. Ivanhoe was published in the early 19th century by Sir Walter Scott about England after the failed Third Crusade. The book is about Ivanhoe, an Englishman from the 12th centurycentury, who returns from a campaign in the Holy Land.During the novel, Ivanhoe's fiancée is kidnapped by one of the main antagonists: Sir Brian de-Boise Gilbert. De-Boise is a corrupt Knight Templar and close friend of Prince John. During a trial for the life of Ivanhoe's aspirant, which is resolved by a confrontation between Ivanhoe and de-Boise, de-Boise suffers a heart attack and dies. The returned King Charles takes this as a sign of his guilt and Ivanhoe's than-expected innocence. I think Lee chose to read this book to Mrs. Dubose for a very specific reason. In my opinion, the fact that the name de-Boise is pronounced very similarly to that of Mrs. Dubose is no coincidence. I believe the reason for this is that we as readers understand what Lee's true opinion of Mrs. Dubose is. This opinion is that, although she is portrayed as courageous and virtuous, the fact that her death is so similar to de-Boise's proves that she is in fact guilty. The fact that she died bravely does not make her regret her wickedness towards Jem, Jean and everyone in general. The irony of this is that while Jem is there repenting for his actions, actions that are destroying Mrs. Dubose's flowers and Jean's witness, Mrs. Dubose is there supposedly repenting for all the meanness in her life, but in reality just adds to it by making Jem and Jean's time there terrible. The book Meditations of Joshua S. St. Clair is mentioned in To Kill a Mockingbird when it is brought by Jean and Jem's Aunt Alexandra as she is trying to impress upon them the importance of their family's legacy. Throughout the book, the idea of family classification and family inheritance is very important. The idea of family classification is that each family has a “streak,” as Aunt Alexandra put it, or a characteristic that each member of that family displays. You can see it from the beginning of the book where Jean says it is "a source of shame to some members of the family that we have no ancestors recorded on either side of the Battle of Hastings", the Battle of Hastings being a battle that was fought between the Anglo-Saxon king Harold II and Duke William II of Normandy in 1066. The family characteristics can be seen very clearly when Jean describes Walter Cunningham to Miss Caroline. As he describes his predicament to her, he uses phrases like "he's a Cunningham" and "The Cunninghams never took anything they couldn't repay," as if all Cunninghams act and think the same. All of this can be seen in the way Aunt Alexandra talks to Jem and Jean about their cousin Joshua. She describes him as "a beautiful character" while Atticus, not so romantic when it comes to family legacy, had described Joshua to his children as he was: a sewer inspector who had tried to kill the president and who had cost his life. family quite a bit of money after failing horribly. I believe Harper Lee brought the book so we could appreciate the different approaches to family that are so important in the Finch family. On the one hand, there is Aunt Alexandra who romanticizes her family's past, while making it grander and more arrogant with each telling. Atticus' approach is based on facts. Furthermore, Atticus doesn't feel the need to exaggerate his family history or even mention it; Atticus is a man of the present, not a romantic of the past. The story of the Gray Ghost is only mentioned twice in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. It is about a group of young scoundrels led by Hawkins who clash with their old antagonist: Stoner's Boy. At the beginning of the novel, they glimpse Stoner's Boy, who leaves their.