King Arthur Moral Courage

First, Scout’s father agrees to defend a black man, Tom, accused of rape. Due to the highly racist nature of the community Scout lives in, she and her brother are subjected to taunts from the other children at school. Eventually, despite evidence that proves Tom’s innocence, Tom is convicted as a rapist and later killed. Scout takes this continuity of “the black man is always wrong” stereotype in her culture positively. She learns how horrible and unjust people can be and who she wants to be. Another series of events going on is Scout’s evolving understanding of Arthur “Boo” Radley. Arthur is a recluse who lives in his brother’s house, on the same street as Scout’s home. At first Arthur is the monster in the night but, slowly, his true personality is revealed through actions such as mending Scout’s brother’s pants, placing a blanket around Scout so she does not freeze and eventually saving both Scout and her brother from being murdered by a vengeful drunk. Scout sees past the perpetual rumors of her culture and their distrust of people who are eccentric, to see who Arthur

Not only is Atticus brave, but he is also strong. Atticus demonstrates his strength when he helps move furniture out of Miss Maudie’s house during the fire. Atticus wakes up Jem and Scout and tells them to stand along the street. Men fill the street, and the old Maycomb fire truck is being pushed by a group of men. As the fire is being extinguished, men are moving furniture out of Miss Maudie’s house. Atticus brings out Miss Maudie’s rocking chair, her most valued piece of furniture. Mr. Avery is upstairs throwing down furniture. Before the stairs give out, Mr. Avery squeezes through the window and slides down a pillar. The fire is growing, and it is making its way to the roof. A second fire truck has come to help extinguish the fire. Miss Rachel’s house has caught on fire. A third fire truck appears. Miss Maudie’s house then collapses, and men scramble to get the fire out. Dawn comes, and everyone goes home. Likewise, Atticus reveals his respectfulness when he does not retaliate when Bob Ewell threatens him. Atticus is coming home from the post office when Bob Ewell approaches him. Ewell begins to curse, spit, and threaten Atticus. Standing contently, Atticus does not try to even the score by retaliating. He takes out a napkin to wipe his face. Ewell proceeds to curse

Aspects of this include her maturity, attitude towards certain people and events, as well as her views on certain subjects. The first noticeable change was when "Boo" or Arthur Radley assisted the children and or saved them from Bob Ewell. After this incident both Scout and Arthur became friends; due to his heroic act for the children as well as the additional little things he did along the way. When Arthur requested from Scout to be escorted home he stated this "Will you take me home" (Lee 278). As Scout accepted, this proved to be further evidence of their friendship as developed in the end of the book.

Scout walked around in Boo’s shoes and saw that while he had done as much as he could for the kids, they on the other hand had done nothing to show how much they appreciated it. She was finally getting the hang of putting herself into others shoes and in doing so she makes her biggest moment of clarity in the book, that they needed to show that they care about Boo as much as he cares about them.

Arthur’s existence is full of lies and twisted truths; he is seen as a horror by children through these rumors perpetrated by adults. Aurther is no longer viewed as human; therefore, children spread these tall tales like wildfires. When talking with Atticus, Scout says that “‘Do you think they’re true, all those things they say about B- Mr. Arthur?’” (Lee 60). Even though Scout knows Aurthur is real, she can still not forget the everlasting stories that surround him.

Arthur had saved the children because he saw them as his own. He watched them grow and had a great amount of love for them. Jem, Scout, an Atticus were more than grateful for Arthur’s presence. After that the children had not only gladly accepted Arthur but also had a great amount of love for

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.

Scout was so surprised and didn’t know what to do and she just stared at him. She walked him home and on her way back, she notices how her street looked from Mr. Radley’s point of view.

Arthur Radley experiences social prejudice throughout the novel, hence, he is marginalised by the people of Maycomb. He is firstly portrayed as a mysterious character through the rumours of the towns. On pg9 various sentences such as, “Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed but Jem and I had never seen him. People said he went out at night when the moon was high and peeped in windows. When people’s azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was

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

Arthur Radley is bad mouthed by many characters in the novel. He is said to be a bad person by Stephanie Crawford. Although in the end we find out that Arthur is actually a very nice person. Arthur saves Jem and Scout when they are attacked by Mr. Ewell, showing the reader that he is a good person. Arthur is not the only one who is scared of coming out or telling the truth in the novel.

Atticus thinks “ not all negros lie, that not all negros are basically immoral begins, that not all negro men are to be trusted around our women”. (Pg. 273) While Scout and Jem watch the trial of Tom they listen to Atticus and everything he has to say is true, they listen to Atticus speak about how tom is a perfect example of a black man that does not lie, he has morals, and can be trusted around our white women. In this time Scout has learned about racial injustice and how unfair courts are to the black community. Boo Radley, A Mesterious man also known as Arthur is a person that Scout sees as a monster at the beginning of a book. But the more she grows and matures into a person she starts to see Boo Radley as more of a human being and Scout also stops messing with boo less and less the more the book goes on and shows she is losing interest in her childish ways.

Arthur shows no fear when he first hears of the Green Knights challenge, he proves to be the boldest, bravest and most courageous of all his knights and would accept the challenge, he was fully prepared and willing to chop off the Green Knights head, “ I know no gome Ϸat is gast of Ϸy grete words. Gif me now Ϸy geserne, vpon Godeʒ halue..” (SGGK,325-326), only for Sir Gawain believing Arthur was too precious to the Kingdom to risk with the challenge. As W.R.J Barron mentions in the introduction to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, King Arthur, “by convention is the intiator and stimulator of Chivarlic adventure, the arbiter of honour and rewarder of Knightly achievement”, but yet Arthur still manages to show courage in the poem himself. As a

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.

This tells us that Miss Maudie is very respectful of the Ewells and that she thinks they are equal to everyone else. This is also revealed when she says “Arthur Radley just stays in the house, that’s all.” The idiom at the end gives a sense of finality, that what Arthur Radley does is his business and no one else’s. This same lesson is given to Scout by Atticus after she and Jem are caught trying to sneak a letter into the Radley House. He says “… what Mr Radley does is his own business.” This shows his attitude that people can do what they want provided it’s within the law; which ties into the fact that he is a lawyer. Therefore, Scout learns from both Atticus and Miss Maudie that what people do is their own business and that Scout should be respectful towards them, and also that she shouldn’t always believe rumours.