Effect Of Rumors In To Kill A Mockingbird

Jagged facial scars, disgusting yellow teeth, big bug eyes and drool dripping from his mouth, were the rumors that were spread about a man that will later show his true self to the Finch children, as a kind and caring person. The small town of Maycomb, located in Alabama, is a town where everybody knows everybody business. It is a place where rumors are guaranteed to go around, rumors about a man named Arthur Radley. Arthur “Boo” Radley is not how everyone perceived him to be in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, as shown through the town’s image of Boo, the foreshadowing taking place at the scene of Miss Maudie’s house catching fire, as well as the plot twist that takes place at the end of the book.

The class was very chaotic with many unexpected events including Burris Ewell’s bugs and rude behavior, and Walter Cunningham’s absence of lunch and refusal of money. Miss Caroline did not know how to properly handle some situations because she was on edge nothing seemed to be going exactly going as planned. Not only was Scout able to step into Miss Caroline’s shoes, but later in the novel she got to see what it was like to walk around in Boo Radley’s shoes. At first Scout thinks of Arthur “Boo” Radley as a terrible, violent man who did not love or appreciate anyone. This impression of Boo was made up of almost entirely rumors. Some of these include When Boo stabbed his father’s leg with a pair of scissors at the age of 33, and how Boo would go out in the dead of night and peep into other people's windows. Other rumors comprised of people's azaleas froze when Boo breathed on them, and how the pecans that dropped from the Radley tree on to the school grounds would kill any person who touched it. Besides the rumors, there are some facts that support Scout’s perception of Arthur Radley. One of these is that Boo had gone unseen for a period of 15 years and had no other human interaction besides his

Scout looks back at the recent events of Maycomb, and is in awe of the way her story appears in the eyes of the strange neighbor Mr.Arthur. Mr. Arthur Radley otherwise known as Boo was a man of few words and actions, but when he did do something it was out of kindness. Some of the few things he does accomplish are saving the Finch kid’s lives. And in the aftermath of the murder of Bob Ewell Scout realizes even though Boo killed him he did it only to protect them. She even says on page 279, "'yes sir, I understand,' I reassured him. '

“To Kill a Mockingbird” is a beloved book in America and has been for decades. The book is told from the perspective of a young girl named Scout Finch, who lived in Macomb County, Alabama, in the 1930s. She plays around her neighborhood and tries to see her ‘scary’ neighbor, Boo Radley, with her brother, Jem Finch, and her neighbor, Dill Harris. Her father is a great lawyer named Atticus Finch, and he is appointed to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, who is falsely accused of rape. This story shows us through the examples of Jem Finch and Boo Radley that courage can mature with a person and that it is truly to put oneself in danger to protect others, even if there is an unfair disadvantage which also applies to real life.

Harper Lee in her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, discusses the racism of the 19th century. In the story, six-year-old Scout Finch and nine-year-old Jem Finch live with their father, Atticus Finch, in a small, prejudiced town in Alabama. Told through Scout’s perspective, she and Jem watch Atticus fight for the guiltlessness innocence of African American, Tom Robinson. Atticus Finch proves his wisdom through the lessons he ingrains in his children about courage, treating everyone with kindness, and demonstrating equality. These life lessons help Jem and Scout grow up.

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel that deals with racial tensions in the 1930s and how the kids of a white lawyer deal with the prejudice and racism in their small Deep Southern town as he defends a black man wrongly accused of rape. Through the painful summer in which the case is prosecuted, Jem and Scout both mature, each in different ways. One of the characters that helps Scout to mature in particular is Boo Radley, the town’s reclusive, ghost-like phantom that all the children are scared of. Boo helps Scout to mature both directly and indirectly, both through his presence and his actions. Throughout the story, Scout hears a lot of gossip about Boo Radley, and she thinks of him as an intimidating nocturnal creature. However, there are several events that help Scout to fully understand that Boo, and and every person, is not what he seems, therefore helping her to mature.

“‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-‘“ (30, Atticus). In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses misunderstood characters to show that things aren’t always what they seem. Through characters such as: Boo Radley, Mrs. Dubose and Calpurnia, Harper Lee shows that people place their faith in public image and rumours rather than striving to know the truth. This is one of the bigger problems that arises in the novel because it hides important facts and magnifies powerful lies. Although it is human nature to assume and suspect, without complete information it is impossible to truley know someone. The chacracters demonstrate this by their surprise discovering the truth about those they think

In part one of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader is introduced to Scout, the narrator of the book, her family and other members of the community in which she lives. Scout and her older brother Jem are the children of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. Scout and Jem meet Dill, a boy spending the summer with his Aunt Rachel. He is between Scout and Jem’s age and becomes a great friend and playmate. He, like Scout and Jem are enjoying the freedom of no school, using their imagination inventing, and playing games throughout the summer. Next door to Scout and Jem, lives a very curious individual whom they have never seen but heard rumors about. This individual has been kept isolated by his father because of some innocent pranks he was involved in over fifteen years ago. Arthur “Boo” Radley is a young man rumored to be root of all evil in the small town of Maycomb. Curiosity is a theme repeated throughout part one as the Scout, Jem, and Dill desire to know or learn more about life and Boo Radley.

While walking home from school one day the children happen to find two pieces of gum hidden in the knot-hole of a tree on the Radley yard. These treasures, the children soon come to realize, can only be from the elusive man himself Boo Radley. Soon enough the children find even more gifts from Boo such as a small box with Indian-head coins, a ball of twine, a boy and girl carved soap figures, a whole pack of gum this time, a spelling medal, and their most cherished treasure, a pocket watch. This knot hole was the only connection between Boo and the children until the hole was clogged up by Boo’s brother Nathan, but because of that Hole Scout and Jem began to see Boo just a little differently from the way they saw him before. Something that also helped Scouts understanding of Boo began to change was during the fire of Miss maudie’s house. While Jem and Scout watched the events unfold from a safe distance a very unusual thing occurred. Scout while watching the fire did not seem to notice that a blanket that she had not come out with was wrapped around her shoulders. After her father Atticus pointed this out he also mentioned that this was the work of Boo Radley who, like the rest of the neighborhood came out to watch the

Scout, Jem, and Dill work many summers to try to get Boo to come out of the Radley house for the first time in many years. Jem had been told many things about Boo in his short years in Maycomb, and he tells his sister Scout about the ‘monster’, saying, “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time” (chap. 1). Jem’s ideas about Boo are very biased toward rumors that can be heard around Maycomb. This shows how Maycomb’s people often judge before they know, seeing as no one has seen Boo Radley in over twenty years and people are prejudiced to believing the unknown is always bad. Prejudice and rumors can often not be trusted and Boo Radley is no exception. After Miss Maudie’s house catches fire and half the town rushes outside to watch it burn, Atticus tells Scout, “someday you should thank him for covering you up” then Scout asks, “Thank Who?” And gets a response from Atticus, “Boo Radley. You were too busy looking at the fire, you didn’t even notice when he put the blanket around you” (chap. 8). Boo Radley is not really a bad person, he

Arthur Radley is left in isolation in his home, which cause his form of discrimination. Bloodstained hands, scar across the face, eats cats and squirrels: all of these are myths old throughout the story about him. Boo Radley lives in Scout’s neighborhood and is forced to stay inside his house, without contact from the outside world due to his infamous past. Boo’s absence leads to many theories and tall tales about his appearance and his actions. “Facts” on Boo included yellow, decaying teeth, his eyes popped, drooling most of the time, and even Miss Stephanie claims that he looked at her through her window one night. Scout, Jem, and Dill spend their summers trying to contact and communicate with Boo. They are obsessed with his story and are curious about the man behind the legend. By the end of the story, Scout reaches their goal by meeting Boo Radley when he brought Jem home from the

Scout and the other children were determined to learn more about Boo Radley, despite being told horror stories about Boo. ""Arthur Radley just stays in the house, that's all,' said Miss Maudie. "Wouldn't you stay in the house if you didn't want to come out?" "Yessum, but I'd wanta come out. Why doesn't he?"" (58 Lee) Scout's childhood curiosity causes her to want to know the truth about Boo Radley. The rest of the town is content with allowing Boo continue to stay within the confines of his house. The rest of the town is also okay with not knowing the true story about Boo. However, this is not the case for Scout. Scout's inner curiosity allows her to ask questions that many others would not ask, or do not care to ask. Due to this the reader is provided with extra information about Boo Radley. This information was obtained by Scout who was not content with the horror stories that she was told. Overall, Scout's youthful curiosity allows her to obtain information on the characters around her for the

To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, is a novel that explores heavy issues such as Civil Rights and racism in the segregated southern United States during the 1930s, along with the significance of corruption of innocence and finally, the coexistence of good and evil. Narrated by Scout Finch, you learn about her father Atticus Finch, who is an attorney endeavouring to prove the innocence of a black man who has been wrongly accused of rape. Lee uses memorable characters and an appropriate setting to inform readers on the controversial issues addressed in the novel. I believe that young readers would benefit from reading this complex and intellectual novel, as it is important to understand what changes our society has gone through and

Living in the sleepy town of Macomb, Alabama, Scout Finch and her brother Jem Finch go on different adventures with their foreign comrade Dill. In doing so, they discover Arthur Radley also known as Boo an old man who has never ventured out past his doorstep. There father, Atticus, a peaceful and quiet lawyer and their black maid Calpurnia teach them import lesson about racial equality. During the fall Dill returns home and Scout goes to school. She detests it, for she is very smart and too advanced for the class. During school Jem and scout find a hole in a tree filled with gum. They take the gum, but little do they know that Arthur Radley had placed it there for them to enjoy. Later in that year they spy on boo only to discover that he wanted to be left alone.

Throughout the book To Kill A Mockingbird Lee discusses the effects of ignorance and the toll it takes on people such as Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, Scout herself, and many more. Through her examples of sexism, prejudice, and racism, from the populist of poverty stricken Southerners, she shows the readers the injustice of many. The victims of ignorance are the ‘mockingbirds’ of the story. A good example of this injustice is the trial of Tom Robinson, who is falsely accused of raping a white girl and is found guilty. The book is from the point of view Scout, a child, who has an advantage over most kids due to her having a lawyer as a dad, to see the other side of the story. Her father tells her in the story, “you never really know a man until