Theme Of Innocence In To Kill A Mocking Bird

Others thought differently, which is why Boo was feared by so many. Lee selects words that poke out a sense of empathy, despite his isolated and invisible nature. When she introduces Boo to the kids, it offsets the initial misconceptions. After Scout was saved from the fire, Atticus told her, “.thank. Boo Radley.you were so busy looking at the fire, you didn’t know it when he put the blanket around you” (Lee 82).

Boo Radley is the mysterious man in Maycomb County , and he is the killer in every scary kid’s story. Boo stays locked up in his house, and has not came out in thirty years. They say that Boo lives off of raw squirrels and cats that he catches., Aand that he has a big scar across his face, and yellow rotten teeth. Jem, Scout, and Dill spendt their summer trying to get Boo to come out of his house, but it never worksed. The children always wondered why Boo stayded inside his homeuse. Even though he never said why he stayed inside, the children finally understand after what they witness over the summer and school year. One reason why Boo stays inside because he is forced to. Another second reason is that Boo prefers to stay in his own environment,

Also, because he is always in his house his body is not very physically fit so to save Scout and Jem and kill Bob Ewell must have been very tiring. He demonstrates great self-sacrifice, bravery, and courage. Scout witnessed Heck Tate’s decision to lie, and say that Bob Ewell fell on his knife rather then tell everyone that Boo killed him. She did not fully understand it at the time, but the as the narrator is older Scout, she understands it eventually. After that, she walks Boo home. Scout stands on his porch and is able to see the neighborhood from his perspective, climbing into his skin and walking around in it, as Atticus said. She is able to see a piece of his life, and her being able to do this at 6 years old is extraordinary, and shows how much she has grown up.

All Scout heard was a lot of moving and low sounding noises and then Bob Ewell drop to the ground. Boo had used the man’s own knife against him and ended his life. Boo was a very caring and compassionate character but never knew how to show it but once it came down to Scout and Jem’s lives he finally had the courage to come out and save them and from then on was appreciated very much by the Finch family. “Thank you for my children Arthur.”

Boo is kind to the children despite the children unintentionally insulting him. Boo Radley is a mystery to the children because he stays locked up in his house with no contact to the outside world. Scout, Jem and Dill, being children, begin to reenact the life of Boo based on rumors and their imagination. Although this may seem insulting, Boo understands that they are children, he even gives them gifts in a knot hole. “The following week the knot-hole yielded a tarnished medal. Jem showed it to Atticus, who said it was a spelling medal, that before we were born the Maycomb County schools had spelling contests

Better known as Boo Radley. Boo has a very noticeable act of social awkwardness or fearness. Boo hasn't been outside home home in years, the interaction with people is handable for him. But Boo has an unexplainable love for the kids, Jem and scout. Boo went outside during sometime of the day and left the kids gifts in a hole that was placed in the tree in his yard. Boo also risked exposure when the kids were being attacked and boo left his house, his property to save them. He not only took the Jem home but also waited in his house with jem’s father, the sheriff, and the doctor. Boo faced all of these people to simply make sure the kids were okay. This was not only very courageous but brave and just shows how much love this guy has for these

Boo saved the kids when Mr. Bob Ewell attacked them.  “Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.  Boo was our neighbor.  He gave us two soap dolls,a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives”(Lee 323).  Boo Radley wanted to help the kids all the time and wanted to make sure they were always safe.  Boo Radley was in a very serious problem with Bob Ewell, Jem, and Scout.  He saved the children from Bob Ewell who attacked them.  He killed Bob and Mr. Heck Tate covered up the death of Bob Ewell to save disruption from Boo’s life.  “... and again when Scout tells her father the revealing Boo Radley’s role in Bob Ewell’s death would be “like shootin’ a mockingbird””(“To Kill a Mockingbird” 294).  Boo Radley killed Bob to protect the kids.  Heck Tate made a cover up story on how Bob fell back on his knife and died that way.  Scout later told Atticus that telling people the truth about Boo would be like killing a mockingbird.  The mockingbird and Boo are similar in many ways and having innocence is

Although the story is seen through a child’s perspective, it includes multiple instances of symbolism. The story's main character is Scout Finch who is a child that is living through the 1930’s full of racism. It is about a man who is an attorney that struggles to prove a black man's innocence and fights to keep his children safe. Harper Lee's ¨To Kill a Mockingbird¨ is a book with several examples of symbolism, including Atticus symbolized as a mockingbird.

They are not scare of Boo anymore; Scout and Jem know and understand him. On Halloween a horrific event happens Bob Ewell, the person that incriminates Tom of rape, tries to kill the kids. Bob is a person that has loss all dignity and is consumed by hate.

Continuing the ideals of innocence, the Mockingbird is greatly used to represent more than just one character. Harper Lee uses the Mockingbird to foreshadow Jem, Scout, and possibly Tom’s loss of innocence, from the beginning of the book, to the end. The symbol is first seen when Atticus gifts Jem and Scout new air rifles, and Jem is looking for anything to use it on. Atticus suggests that he’d “rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds”. Shoot all the bluejays you want if you can hit ‘em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119).

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy, that’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a book of exploration of the moral nature of human beings—that is, whether people are essentially good or essentially evil. A young girl named Scout deals with the issues of racism while gaining knowledge, experience, strength, and courage, while her father, a lawyer, is persecuted for defending a falsely accused black man being charged with raping a white girl. Many characters are judged upon their race, behavior, and social class.

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.

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.

The Mockingbird has a very deep and powerful meaning in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird. It represents peacefulness, innocence and kindness which is portrayed through the characters of Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. The mockingbird's influence can also be applied to the relationships between humans. The Mockingbird is a powerful symbol that echoes a strong meaning throughout the novel.

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,