To Kill a Mockingbird

TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, EXPOSITORY ESSAY
English

“When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow… When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident. I maintained that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that. He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out”.

In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, a number of important themes are explored. Some of the more significant themes developed by Harper Lee throughout the novel are friendship, sacrifice/status and perhaps the most important of them all, prejudice.

The theme of friendship is seen as influential throughout the pages of the novel. The main example of this is Charles Baker Harris, a feisty, imaginative boy who is small for his age. Charles, or as he is referred to in the novel, Dill, ope...