If you ever went to middle school then you know that rumors and gossip are part of the daily routine of most of the students. Most of the time these rumors aren’t nice, and the gossip is mostly negative and heavily opinionated, yet many take part. Almost everyone, at one point, has started a rumor about someone else, had a rumor made up about themselves, or obligingly gave into the spread of rumors. The thing about rumors is that no one really has any factual evidence for them, yet people believe them regardless. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, she explores the concept of rumors through the character Boo Radley. Boo is a peculiar man whose father, because of his wrongdoing as a teenager, has kept him contained to the family’s …show more content…
Scout is telling us something about the day Jem rolled her down a hill in a tire and she crashed in the Radley’s front yard. She tells us, “Through all the head-shaking, quelling of nausea, and Jem yelling, I had heard another sound, so low I could not have heard it from the sidewalk. Someone inside the house was laughing.”(45) The mystery person inside the house is most likely Boo Radley, because during this time of day Nathan Radley would have been at work. This scene shows Boo Radley’s humanity because even though people think of him as a scary phantom, he still has a humorous side. Later on Jem is telling Scout something about the night that they almost got shot by Mr. Nathan while trying to get a look at Boo. He says, “When I went back for my breeches- they were all in a tangle when I was getting’ out of ‘em… when I went back they were folded across the fence… And something else-... They’d been sewed.”(pg 66) In this scene you have to infer that this was Boo’s doing. Mr. Nathan had shot at the intruder so he wouldn’t then sew up their pants and fold them neatly across the fence. Since this was most likely Boo’s we can see that Boo wants to make sure the kids don’t get in trouble, because if Jem never got his pants back Atticus would have known it was his children who were prowling on the Radley’s yard. Also we can see that Boo …show more content…
One night Scout is awakened by her father and told to put on her robe and coat and get out of the house. When Jem and Scout get outside they see that their neighbor Miss Maudie’s house is on fire. After the fire is put out, Scout and Jem go inside and Scout has a blanket wrapped around her shoulders The kids are then having a conversation with Atticus and Jem starts to spill all the mischief the kids have gotten into this summer involving Boo. Atticus says, “We’d better keep this and the blanket to ourselves. Someday, maybe, Scout can thank him for covering her up.” And Scout asks, “Thank who?” Atticus responds, “Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn’t know when he put the blanket around you.”(81-82) Boo is nice and is making sure that Scout stays warm in the cold air. This is when Scout starts to realize that Boo Radley may not be as scary as she thought. Later Scout and Jem are walking home from the Halloween pageant and they get attacked by someone who we soon finds out is Bob Ewell. Mr. Ewell breaks Jem’s arm and pushes Scout down. Since Scout is in a big ham costume she can’t really tell what’s going on. Once she regains her senses she sees a man walking towards her house. She describes that, “The man was walking with the staccato steps of someone carrying a load to heavy for him. He was going around the corner. He was carrying Jem.” (302) We find
through no matter what”(Pg149). That brave man was Atticus Finch. The story To kill a Mockingbird takes place in Alabama and takes place around the time of racial discrimination. The story is about this little girl Scout and her brother Jem, and what they go threw in the story. It is narrated by older Scout, and she takes us threw the book and tells us what is going on in the book. In Harper Lee’s To kill a mockingbird Jem and scout learn a lot of lessons, one of them is tolerance. Another thing they
Oswalt pg:1 pd:2 To Kill A Mockingbird Literary Analysis Ever heard the saying “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”? Have you ever read the book “To Kill A Mockingbird”? Well the writer Harper Lee does a fabulous job explaining this saying throughout the book and involving a “Mockingbird” around almost every corner. In “To Kill A Mockingbird” Harper Lee portrays motif and symbolism throughout the coming of age of Scout and Jem. Throughout
all understanding for their fellow human. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch says, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (39). People often fail to examine a situation from someone else view because their opinions are biased. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows readers how
To Kill a Mockingbird In the Novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee uses symbolism to express the idea of how fear can make someone make the wrong decision. Atticus warned the kids that they could shoot all the blue jays they wanted to but it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. Miss Maudie helps explains to the kids the mockingbirds don't do anything but make beautiful music for people to enjoy. The mockingbird symbolizes Boo Radley because he is an innocent person who has been destroyed
Have you ever heard rumors that sounded totally bizarre about someone and believed them? In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the story follows a narrator and protagonist who’s name is Scout Finch. She lives in Maycomb with her father Atticus, her brother Jem, and their cook Calpurnia. She is intelligent and by the standards of her time and place, a tomboy. As the novel progresses, they’re rumors about a boy named Boo Radley whom was locked in his house for years and has never been
In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, she shows us the level of unfairness between justice and injustice. In this essay the unfairness between justice and injustice will appear through the racism seen in Maycomb, Bob Ewell’s abusive behavior, and the treatment of Boo Radley by the whole town. Throughout this novel racism reoccurs often and appears in many different ways. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the n word appears very often. For example when Jem and Scout walk by Mrs. Dubose’s house she
Throughout “To Kill A Mockingbird”, innocence is a common theme. To portray this innocence, Lee used symbolism. Within multiple chapters, Lee refers to the mockingbird as an innocent creature whom did nothing wrong. She portrayed this innocence within characters of the novel. Although Tom Robinson is the most prominent example of this, there are plenty others. Harper Lee did not name the title solely off of Tom Robinson. There are many characters Mockingbirds that symbolize innocence in Harper Lee’s
Have you ever heard about the great wonders in To Kill A Mockingbird? If not, in this essay you will read all about it and how it relates to the real world. To KIll A Mockingbird takes place in Alabama during The Great Depression. This novel is narrated by the main character, who is a little girl named Jean Louise Finch, who is also known as Scout. Her father, Atticus Finch is a lawyer and he takes on an enormous role when he is assigned to defend a black man named Tom Robinson in a trial against
innocence perfectly fits right into the symbol and theme of the book To Kill A Mockingbird although they do not express the sameway to each other. In the book the reader will constantly be told that it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird which was said by Atticus Finch, he intends to tell Scout to not harm something that does not have the knowledge of the situation and is harmless to others. Alongside of what Atticus says to Scout, the mockingbird in the book symbolizes the innocence of the people of Maycomb.
are better than others and who like to put others down. In Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, racism, sexism, and classism shape how Scout sees Maycomb by the end of the novel. Racism is the belief that a certain race is superior to any other race, and it is the most used form of discrimination in To Kill a Mockingbird. It is used multiple times throughout the novel and it is the form that Scout sees the most. For example, Tom Robinson, an African American man, is convicted of raping and beating
others, instead they get wounded physically or mentally by others, those are mockingbirds. Three peoples are mockingbirds in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. Tom Robinson did not rape Mayella, and he is eventually killed. To begin, Tom Robinson, is the main mockingbird in To Kill a Mockingbird novel, because he didn't harm anyone throughout the novel, and got killed for no reason.For example, Tom is like a mockingbird,because all he did was help her with the chores around the house. He felt pety
Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, we continue to learn a little more about him. People in Maycomb fear the unknown properties of Boo. They created horrible rumors about him in order to answer their questions about him. For example, they claimed that he was dead and stuffed into the chimney, that he eats cats and dogs, and sneaks out during the night to look into people’s windows. Despite all of these horrible rumors, Boo Radley is a rather friendly character in To Kill a Mockingbird. We chose
The iconic quote “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy”. They don’t eat people’s corncribs, they don’t do one thing except sing their hearts out to us.”(119) connects to the importance of the title. Harper Lee titled her book, To Kill a Mockingbird because she expressed mockingbirds as a creature of innocence and a sense of beauty into the world. In the book, characters such as Tom Robinson and Boo Radley were portrayed as mockingbirds. A mockingbird is often described as
are plenty of important characters in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. The story chronicles life through the eyes of young children, but also shows first hand accounts of racist adults in the small town of Holcomb. This book is so unique because symbolism is avidly used. The main characters in To Kill a Mockingbird are symbolized as mockingbirds. There are many different situations where a character can be categorized as a mockingbird. A mockingbird can be a meek man accused of a crime, or a young
This novel by Harper Lee has a seemingly curious title to a reader who looks at it in a literal way. Someone may argue that there are no mockingbirds in To Kill a Mockingbird but I beg to differ. An actual mockingbird may not play a large role in this story however the idea and connotation of a mockingbird becomes evident throughout the story in many characters. This is a major theme in the story and is shown through the characters Boo Radley, Mr. Raymond, and Tom Robinson all connected in the fact