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To kill a Mockingbird - a book about the ideals of the American Dream and their failure
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To kill a Mockingbird-a book about the ideals of the American Dream and their failure
by Harper Lee
By Monika Bisharova, 16.11.2018
Content
- Definition of the American Dream
- Plot and characters of the book
- Comparison
- Conclusion
- Sources
Content
What I'm not going to talk about
What I'm not going to talk about:
- The biography of the author
- The symbols representing the American Dream
- Quotes as proof from the book
Definition of the American Dream
"The ideal by which equality of opportunity is available to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved trough hard work"
- First used by J. T. Adams in 1931
Definition of the American Dream
Ideals of the American Dream:
Ideals
- Equality
- Freedom/Liberty
- Success
- Pursuit of happiness
- Optimism
- Patriotism
- To go from rags to riches
- Frontier spirit
Plot of the book
The setting
- Maycomb, Alabama
- 1933-1935
- Great Depression
Plot/characters
Comparison with the ideals of the American Dream
Comparison
- eqality
- freedom
- optimism
- success through hard work
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Conclusion
Conclusion
not a failure,
but hope for spreading the ideals among the people
Sources
Sources
- https://savannahtwombly.wordpress.com/2016/12/22/to-kill-a-mockingbird/
- https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/american-dream
- https://slideplayer.com/slide/9189786/
- http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://www.nebo.edu/learning_resources/ppt/6-12/kill_a_mockingbird.ppt
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