Boo Radley Speeches

‘What do you mean?’ ‘Well, it’d sort of be like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?’” (317). Lee demonstrates Scout’s growing empathy and understanding towards Boo. Earlier in the novel, we learn that mockingbirds symbolize innocence and vulnerability, and that killing one is considered a sin.

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 a symbol for the misconceptions and stereotyping of people, Scout gains new perspective, and Boo is a metaphor for killing a mockingbird. Scout was told false claims about Boo's sanity, character, and

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the main characters Boo Radley, Scout, and Jem learn a lesson that some people will kill or hurt a mockingbird. They experiences this empathy when Tom Robinson gets killed and when Bob Ewell’s hurts scout and Jem. Through the pivotal moment when Boo saves Scout and Jem, the reader understands Lee’s larger message of, anyone can hurt or kill a mockingbird.

Bob Ewell tries to stab Scout and breaks Jem’s arm, but Boo Radley arrives just in time to stab Ewell with his own knife and kill him. Heck Tate thinks that hushing up the incident would be the best decision for Boo Radley, and Scout finally understands Atticus’s advice about not shooting a mockingbird. Boo was only trying to protect the Finches, and forcing him out into the open would be harmful to him. Here, Boo Radley is a symbolic mockingbird. She explains to Atticus, “Well, it’d be sort of like shootin‘ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”(370). Scout has finally understood Atticus’s advice about not harming the innocent and vulnerable, and Boo Radley directly helped her to realize

“Human beings are poor examiners, subject to superstition, bias, prejudice, and a profound tendency to see what they want to see rather than what is really there” ~ Scott Peck. Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird abounds with the injustice produced by social, gender, and racial prejudice. The setting of the book takes place in the 1930s, where racism is a big deal in society. In the novel Harper Lee uses a mockingbird as an analogy to the characters. The Mockingbird is a symbol for Three Characters in the book, Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley. The people of Maycomb only know Boo Radley and Tom Robinson by what others say about them. These Characters are then characterized by other people 's viewpoints. In the novel there are many themes that are adjacent to our lives, the one that is found in To Kill A Mockingbird is Human Conflict comes from the inability for one to understand another. “ You never understand a person until you consider things from his point of view- until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (39)

In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, characters are used to demonstrate the misjudgement by others in society. Arthur “Boo” Radley is thought of in a very dimensional and untrue way by the children. Dolphus Raymond makes unnoticed compromises in order to live in the community which he does not fit in. Tom Robinson is a kind and humble African American, who is misjudged by society due to the colour of his skin. Lee uses characterisation to show readers how society judges others.

Setting demonstrates the reasoning behind why Maycomb is so prejudice. Scout Finch described the setting with the following words towards the beginning of the novel, “Maycomb was the county seat of Maycomb County… Atticus’ office in the courthouse contained a checkerboard and an unsullied code of Alabama” (Lee 5). The quote reveals the setting, which is located in Alabama, a southern region of the United States. Southern states tended to support slavery and were often regarded as racist. Alabama was especially notorious for hating African Americans.

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

Atticus gives Scout a lesson about how it is a sin to kill mockingbirds because they do not harm anyone. Scouts announces this quote to Atticus after she finds out that Boo might be going to trial. Boo represents a mockingbird; He has saved Scout’s life from Bob Ewell so punishing him would be a sin. Atticus has impacted her because she has grown up to be a mature young woman.

However, Tom Robinson is not the only mockingbird in the story. Boo Radley is another harmless creature who falls victim of cruelty. He is unjustly regarded as an evil person and used as the scapegoat for all the bad happenings around town. Women are afraid of him and so are children. When the sheriff decided that he would not arrest Boo Radley for killing Bob Ewell and that would present his death as an accident, Atticus asked Scout if she understood the meaning of this decision. Scout replied that she did. Her exact words were: "Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?" (282). Boo here is also compared to the gentle bird and again it would be a 'sin' to punish him. The symbol of the mockingbird can be applied to Boo Radley from another point of view as well. The mockingbird has no song of its own. It just imitates other birds. Therefore it makes itself present and is seen through other birds. In the same way, Boo Radley is seen through the eyes of other people. He does not have a character of his own. What the reader knows about him is what other people say. He is believed to " dine on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, his hands were

Harper Lee's ‘To kill a Mockingbird’ explores the prejudicial issues which plague over the town Maycomb. Harper Lee uses the trial of Tom Robinson a black man accused of rape on a young white girl, Mayella as a central theme to portray the prominence of racial discrimination in Maycomb. The racial prejudice is also widely shown through the characterisation of Atticus. Having Scout as the narrator allows Harper Lee to highlight the gender inequity through a youthful unbiased perspective. The chauvinistic attitudes and prejudiced views of most of the town’s folk leaves Maycombs social hierarchy in an unfair order, victimising many of the town’s people due to their socially non-conforming habits some ‘socially unaccepted people’ including Boo

did not allow anyone to visit him or have the slightest contact with him. Eventually Boo's mental state triggers him to stabbed his father with a pair of scissors. Boo's fathers causes Boo to suffer innocently by stealing his childhood experiences away from him. This indicates that Boo is a mockingbird because he did very little to deserve this torment and isolation that his father inflicted upon him. Then, Jem and Scout from the beginning of the story never fully understood Boo's past life at all, yet they judged him on things they hear about. They suspect he was basically an evil monster that never comes out of his house. Scout starts the stereotyping by creating a nickname “Boo” for the innocent Arthur Radley. This nickname robs Arthur of his true name and identity, causing him to suffer. Furthermore, Jem and Scout constantly pester Boo in an attempt to discover his actual identity. They tell their best friend Dill that Boo is like a zombie. Jem describes Boo as being: “About six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cat 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 and he drooled most of the time” (Lee 13). The stereotypical image created by Jem completely robs Boo

To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, a small town hit by the Great Depression. The families in the town are stereotyped by their past generations. People in the town believe that heritage is an important part of your character if your family has a history of violence, addiction, laziness, etc. people will see you as such. One person stereotyped is Boo Radley. Throughout the book, he’s seen as a dangerous and threatening person, but we soon learn this is not the truth.

In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the mockingbird is used to symbolize innocent people damaged by unjust, evil actions, revealing that prejudice against those who are different causes injustice and isolation of people within communities. Lee uses the mockingbird expose the strength of prejudice and its harmful effects. In the novel, the mockingbird is represented by Tom Robinson and Arthur “Boo” Radley.