Examples Of Innocence In To Kill A Mockingbird

Olivia Burket Mrs. Castellano English ll H- 5th period 27 February 2024 Innocence of Boo Radley Harper Lee uses diction and stream of consciousness to develop Boo Radley’s innocence in To Kill A Mockingbird. Scout, the narrator, was told Boo got into legal trouble with his father, who imprisoned him at their house as punishment. Boo stayed hidden inside for 15 years, until he stabbed his father with scissors. Boo was thought of as crazy since then, but through diction and stream of conscience, Harper Lee reveals Boo as an innocent man with an unfortunate past. In part one, with the choice of wholesome words, Harper Lee portrays Boo as innocent.

In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird innocence is spread throughout the novel. Innocence is connected to the mockingbird because they do nothing but sing. There are three examples of innocence within the novel; Boo Radley, Mayella Ewell, and Tom Robinson.

How Innocent In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, shows how loss of innocence affects two children who live in Maycomb. Scout and Jem are living in Maycomb during the Great Depression and face many situations where they loose their innocence. Scout's first looses her innocence when starts at her first day of school. Scout tries to explain to Miss.

The Art of Preserving Innocence In the real world and in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, people try many different ways to preserve one’s own innocence. One example of this is how in real life, parents do not allow their children to watch television or own their own cell phone. The children's innocence is preserved by doing this in a sense that not being able to watch television means you cannot see disastrous situations all around the world, like people dying, that younger audiences may not be used to.

Jem breaks down into tears after hearing the verdict of the Tom Robinson case, and all of these show him growing. To begin, at the start of the novel, Jem, Scout and Dill sneak around the Radley's yard. They all describe him as a monster who has blood stained hands, eats roadkill, and does crazy things, but clearly they all have a misunderstanding as to who he really is. Once Jem finds out he was the one leaving gifts for the children in the knothole, and he folded Jem's pants as well as putting a blanket on Scout, he comes to terms that Boo isn't someone to be scared of, he is just highly misunderstood. Jem finally sees the world from Boo’s perspective and realizes all that he goes through and just how hard his life is and he begins to cry outside, “He stood there until nightfall, and I waited for him.

At what age did you learn what rape is? The loss of innocence is something that must occur to all people, to enter reality, and is universally accepted and shown. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about innocence and reveals that the loss of innocence is necessary for terms with reality through characterization and plot. Through characterization, Scout exemplifies innocence and the loss of it through her naiveness. Lee characterizes Scout as a little innocent, naive girl throughout the novel.

Everybody has Innocence and the moment they lose that that have a different view on the world. In the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, Scout and Jem Finch start out being kids and prejudice later in the novel they mature and understand the society there living in, the kids learn to look at the world in a more mature and adult like way. The author uses the mockingbird to portray the innocence of these three main characters; Tom Robinson, Boo Radley and Jem Finch. To start with, the character Jem is determined to see Boo Radley, since the whole town thinks he’s a mystery.

Have you ever done something and later when questioned about it, was in denial? In the world when people do something and not take ownership, it begins to deteriorate their innocence as a person. Just as if a robber stole from a bank and later identified for the supposed crime, was in denial; will result later in the truth coming out as well as his innocence along with it. However, many of people’s innocence are destroyed through the contact with evil. This is as if a person began to help a homeless man and the man gets a knife and stabs him for no apparent reason, the helper’s innocence is lost and begins to question why someone he helped so much could turn and do what he did.

The first step in corrupting a society is the destruction of innocence. A definition for innocence is the obliviousness and ignorance of racism and stereotypical living, and overall hatred from humanity, as a society. In this case, it also applies to not obtaining the knowledge of how the town of Maycomb works; and the feelings and thought of people living in it. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee innocence is shown in many situations and characters throughout the book. One of the characters representing the innocence, and the upholding of the story is Dill. He is very oblivious to the whole town of Maycomb and how it operates. He is also oblivious to the overall bad things going on in the world surrounding him, at the time.

In addition, Jem abandons all of his childish morals: “Jem looked the floor. Then he rose and broke the remaining code of our childhood. He went out of the room and down the hall. ‘Atticus,’ his voice was distant, ‘can you come here a minute, sir?’” (p.187-188). Dill, Jem and Scout’s best friend, ran away from his home and came to the Finch’s house. Jem has broken “the remaining code of our childhood” by telling Atticus about Dill, rather than keeping it a secret. He has matured past his childhood years, and realizes that sometimes it is best to involve adults.

In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird the most commonly identified theme is the loss or destruction of innocence. Innocence has a number of meanings and a lot of these are shown within the story. The main ones represented in the book are, the state, quality, or fact of being innocent of a crime or offense, lack of guile or corruption, having purity, and freedom from guilt or sin especially through lack of knowledge of evil. There are characters who include Jem and Scout, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley who show their definition of innocence through the book. Each of these characters who has their innocence goes down a path where they lose it and they have to take on the world face to face.

Jem then learns of her morphine addiction and later at night Scout notices him fingering the camellia’s wide petals which shows he might have some sympathy for her and isn’t mad anymore. Mrs. Dubose’s death is a turning point for Jem’s moral evolution. At first, Jem is careless about Mrs. Dubose and her feelings because he cuts down her camellia bushes. After Jem is forced to read to Mrs. Dubose resulting in more time together which may have made him closer to her, but until her death is when we get to see Jem change. Jem begins to lose interest in the Boo Radley game, which was disrespectful and he begins to care more for his family's well-being as well as others well-being including Tom.

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is best known as a literary classic, telling the tale of a young girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch’s childhood in a southern Alabama town during the great depression. While the fate of a black male convicted of rape still looms in the synopsis. To Kill a Mockingbird the title of the novel, refers to a quote on page 119. Both said by Atticus Finch the town of Maycomb's lawyer and Miss Maudie his neighbor, “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”. As said by Miss Maudie “ Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119). The title of this novel isn’t only referencing this quote,

(page 90) Innocence is shown at the beginning of the book by Jem and Scout, because to them they lived in a perfect world that showed no evil. They are innocents who have been destroyed through contact with evil. The loss of innocence in a way is a coming of age. This happens by an experience in a child's life where they realize the world's darkness instead of only seeing the good side of it.

In this novel, innocence is represented from all ages yet all still contribute to the mockingbird factor. Charles Baker “Dill” Harris doesn’t develop and mature throughout the story. In this way, he is seen as a mocking bird because he’s innocent by his childish actions. His childish actions flow throughout To Kill A Mockingbird and he never changes this lifestyle, because that’s all he knows how to do. An example of this is in the court scene when we wasn’t aware of what’s going on, “Dill leaned across me and asked Jem what Atticus was doing”(Lee 254). In this scene the children snuck into the courthouse to listen to Atticus defend Tom Robinson, and Dill is questioning what is happening in the court.This scene is an example of