Analyzing The Book Song 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

In the start of the Novel, Scout and Jem warn Dill of the said “monster”, Boo Radley. They describe him as a vermin eating, disturbance of a man, but as the novel progressed, they found out more about him. By the end of the book, Boo gave the kids gifts, and Scout reflected on this in a very empathetic way, “Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad” (373). This shows that even after having a very set in place mindset, she is able to be mature and overcome this with empathy. She is showing how she is old enough to block out old beliefs and have an open

“He was carrying Jem. Jem’s arm was dangling crazily in front of him. By the time I reached to corner the man was crossing our front yard. Light from our front door framed Atticus for a instant; he ran down the steps, and together, he and the man took Jem inside” (352). This is the pivotal moment, when Boo Radley saves Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell’s. When Bob was in the process of hurting a “mockingbird”, a face that very few have seen saves the kids. By the end of the book Scout makes a good connection with Boo but there will always be fear, ignorance, and

Harper Lee uses Jem, Dill, and Scout to be the subjects of all of her many life lessons on courage. In the story the children have ideas on Boo Radley that at times become truly unrealistic. The children see Boo as more monster than human, so they did as most little children will do to prove they “aren’t scared” they tried to get as close to their real life monster, Boo Radley, as possible. Jem showed courage many times, but the largest was when he was the first one to set foot in the Radley lawn. He demonstrated how truly scared he was by saying to Dill on page 24, “Don’t blame me when he gouges your eyes out. You started it, remember.” This quote illustrates how scary they really though Boo Radley was, which in turn shows how much courage it took to step foot on on Boo’s

Tom Robinson’s role in this book shows a lot of prejudice. He is a black man convicted of raping a white women. This book is set in the 1930s, during this time period the Jim Crow Laws were still in place and racism was big. ‘You felt sorry for her, you felt sorry for her?’ Mr. Gilmer seemed ready to rise to the ceiling” (Lee, pg 197). Tom Robinson is talking about how he felt sorry for Miss Mayella, who is white. Mr Gilmer gets very upset stating that a nigger should not feel sorry for a white woman. "There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads -- they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the fact of life.” (Lee, pg.220) Atticus is talking to the kids about how Tom Robinson will get the death sentence because of the color of his skin and how the jury looks at him. He talks about there is no court in Alabama that would’ve gave him something less. Basically it was Tom against a town full of white folks. Tom is a big symbol of prejudice in the book.

Bringing Boo to trial would be like shooting a mockingbird because all he did was save Atticus’s children from Mr. Ewell. This moment showed the result of Scout's progress throughout the book and was a pivotal moment for her. She learned that the right thing to do isn’t always to follow the law.

On Dill’s last night in Maycomb before returning to Mississippi at the end of the summer the children decide to sneak into the Radley yard and go peek in the window. Scout has been feeling left out as the friendship between Jem and Dill has become closer and when she asks to join them, Jem tells her to go home. When she questions their intentions, the author states, “Dill and Jem were simply going to peep in the window with the loose shutter to see if they could get a look at Boo Radley” (Lee 51). Jem tells Scout she can either go with them or go

Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley is also very courageous throughout the novel. Boo contacts the children and gifts them items, wraps Scout in a blanket at Miss Maudie’s house fire, and rescues Jem and Scout from Bob

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird the character of Boo Radley is the first to suffer the loss of his innocence. As a teen, Boo experienced trouble with the law and for his consequences his father imprisoned him in his own house. Because of the harsh consequences forced upon him by his father, Boo grew up without a

To start with, the surprise attack of the mad dog made Jem begin to understand Atticus.At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout are always disappointed at Atticus because he is nearly 50 and he wears a pairs of glasses which make him look different with other students’ parents who can play all kinds of exercises with their kids. One day, Jem and Calpurnia who is the housekeeper of Atticus’s family, find a mad dog existing in the town. Neighbor’s will get hurt unless somebody is willing to take the risk and kill the mad dog. Under this emergency situation, Atticus stepped in and killed the mad dog with a gun in only one shot, his spectacular action amazed the neighbors, also surprised Jem and Scout. Jem learns that Atticus’s nickname was OL’ One-Shot when he was a boy, but Atticus has never mentioned about it. As Miss Maudie said “People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”(P112 To Kill a Mockingbird). After the event and Miss Maudie’s words, Jem grew up a little bit and something has been changed in his mind. “Naw, Scout, it’s something you wouldn’t understand. Atticus is real old, but I wouldn’t care if he couldn’t do anything—I wouldn’t care if he couldn’t do a blessed thing.”

Despite his acts of kindness to the children, including gifts of a “broken old pocket watch” and the reparation of Jem’s pants, he goes unacknowledged by the children. Boo, a man forced into solitude. Symbolises a mockingbird who was abused at the hand of his own father. Like boo, tom struggles with the power mishap of cruelty from someone in a higher social standing. The children’s growth is full recognised when boo’s act of protection at the end of the novel epitomises not only his strong moral nature. But finally the children realise that boo radley is not the gothic themed “six and a half” feet tall, squirrel-eating monster their innocence portrayed him to be, and instead is a kind man who ultimately save the lives of both kids. This epidemic leads scout to the conclusion that punishing boo for him chivalry acts “would be like shootin’ a mockingbird wouldn’t it?”

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird racism was a problem in Maycomb. Atticus quoted, “There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it’s a white man’s word against a black man’s, the white man always wins. They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.” “Lee #224)

To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a tiny southern town in Alabama in 1932. The tiny town of Maycomb was home to deep rooted racism. Two children named Scout and Jem live in this town with their father Atticus and when their father is sent to defend a black man their lives see a dramatic change. The children soon learn the harsh truth of their little town and lose a childhood full of innocence. In her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, author Harper Lee foreshadows a loss of innocence through the symbolic significance of building a snowman, a harsh fire, and a mockingbird.

Daniel H. Pink once said, “Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eye. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate but it makes the world a better place”. This quote is explaining the basics of empathy. Empathy is seeing a problem or life in general, from another person’s of view. It allows us to understand another and overall helps make the world a better place.

The citizens of Maycomb county believe that a white man such as Bob Ewell cannot commit a crime that Tom Robinson was apprehended with charges of rape (even though he did not commit it) and that only a black man can commit these crimes because they are beneath a white man. In chapter 15 of To Kill a Mockingbird it shows how Tom Robinson represents a mockingbird when a group of local Maycomb county citizens formed a mob and went to the jail to take Tom away and give to him what they think he deserves (to be hung). Atticus knew that this trial would upset the townsfolk, so he stayed with Tom Robinson within the jail and sat his chair right outside his cell to protect him from being lynched. Fortunately for Tom Robinson and Atticus, Scout, Jem, and Dill had followed Atticus to the jail interfering with what the mob was set to do. Scout spoke out into the angry mob to Mr. Cunningham when she states, "Hey Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?... Don't you remember me, Mr. Cunningham? I'm Jean Louise Finch. You brought us some hickory nuts one time, remember?"(pg. 174). This is important because the lynch mob that showed up to harm Tom and anyone who got in their way, such as Atticus was set on their plan to obtain Tom, but a child made one group member come to his senses. Scout speaking out to Mr. Cunningham reminded him that he is also a father and that because children were involved, it

Even the title itself lends to the theme of racism. The title “To Kill a Mockingbird” is explained in the movie, that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird because they only do good. This translates not only to Boo Radley, who is apart of the main plot, but also to poor Tom Robinson.