To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

1. Analysing literature

   • - Constellation of characters
     • Scout as a narrator
       • Coming of age novels
         • Scout and Jem grow up
           • Boo's role
             • The title
   • (Harper Lee)
   • speeches and rhetorical devices
     • poetry and songs
       • I, too, sing America
     • I have a dream
   • the title

2. Morality and justice

   • Atticus as a role-model and a person of conscience
     • --> What is courage? --> What is conscience?
       • Atticus's challenge to defend a black man
   • the mob scene
     • the trial and the verdict
       • --> taking over perspectives
   • Kohlberg's model of morality
   • Hypocrisy

3. The American South in the 1930's

   • Childhood in Maycomb
   • The role of black maids
     • Gender roles
       • Southern gentlemen
         • The role of Jem
       • Southern ladies
         • The role of Scout
       • Maycomb's rules
         • hypocrisy
     • Calpurnia

4. Racial Segregation and Civil Rights Movement

   • Lynchmord
     • Strange Fruit
     • The mob scene
   • Black maids
     • The Help (movie)
   • Civil Rights Movement
     • Martin Luther King
     • Malcom X