Dared Jem To Touch The Radley Home

From this quote, one can deduce that Burris has little respect for neither his teacher nor school regulations, which is crude and vulgar, along with being plainly impolite. The last reason Burris can be considered vulgar is due to his swearing and name-calling. An example of this can be found after Burris challenges Miss Caroline’s authority and she threatens to report him. As a response, he calls her terrible names, yelling “report and be damned to ye! Ain’t no snot-nosed slut of a schoolteacher ever born e’n make me do nothin’!” (Lee 37). This reply clearly displays Burris swearing, name-calling, and being unneedlessly cruel to Miss Caroline, an act of vulgarity in its purest form. Along with Burris being vulgar, the entirety of the Ewell family has shown evidence of being poor. The first piece of evidence is the Ewell’s apparent lack of education. It is shown that Burris himself does not know how to spell his own name, and Ewells only come to school on the first day. This supports the assumption that the Ewells are poor, as a lack of education is one of the foremost signs of

I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time... it’s because he wants to stay inside.'' This is the first step Jem and Scout take to understand Boo, as Jem realizes that, with all the hate going around in Maycomb, maybe Boo just wants to stay inside, away from society. From now on, the kids become less preoccupied with Boo as their, and the reader’s, perception of him changes. While Boo is still an other, he is no longer a monster and is now more of a mockingbird, an innocent neighbor trying to stay inside, away from the hate Jem and Scout are currently experiencing in

Next, Scout and Jem learn how to have empathy for those who are misunderstood. Scout and Jem learn this through experiences with Boo Radley. Everyone in Macomb makes Boo out to be a mysterious and extremely dangerous, animal-like individual. The kids hear new rumors daily about Boo, and they begin to get curious. Scout, Jem and Dill all try to spy on Boo. They are determined to get him to come out of his house so that they can see the monster that everyone claims he is. Atticus soon catches on to what the kids are doing. He tells the kids that they need to leave Boo alone. What they hear about Boo

Finding gifts in the knothole of the Radley's oak tree has helped Jem and Scout come to age. A quote that demonstrates this is “‘Don’t eat things you find, Scout.’ ‘This wasn’t on the ground, it was in a tree.’ Jem growled ‘Well it was,’ I said. ‘It was sticking in that tree yonder, the one comin from school.’ ‘Spit it out right now!’... ‘Don’t you know you’re not supposed to even touch those trees over there? You’ll get killed if you do!’”(Lee 37-38) In this quote, Lee illustrates that Jem is afraid of anything that comes from the Radleys. When Scout told Jem that she took a piece of gum from the oak tree on the Radley’s property, he became furious. Jem started scolding Scout and told her if she even touched the tree she would die. In chapter 4, Jem was frightened by anything the Radley’s offered, but things took a turn in chapter 7.

They are, and have been, the rudest and most disrespectful family in Maycomb for three generations. An example of this would be Burris Ewell. When attending class on the first day, he frightens the teacher with his state of uncleanliness. Scout even states that he, “was the filthiest human I had ever seen…His neck was dark gray… his fingernails were black” (Lee 29). When the teacher tries to send him home to clean up, Burris meanly tells her that this is the one and only day that he is ever going to come to school, leaving her distraught and in tears. In addition to talking back, Burris and his family resist going to school. They only go on the first day because the truant lady threatens to report them to the police. The whole family seems to follow their own set of rules instead of society. Their dad, Bob Ewell, hunts in the winter, which is against the law, and gets away with it because his kids would starve otherwise. In addition, the Ewell family doesn’t have a mother to set them right, which is mostly why Burris and all of his siblings only show up for the first day of school, the rest of the year is spent “Living like animals” (Lee 33). I must say that I agree with Atticus when he says, “the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations” (Lee 33). The family has been judged poorly by society for reasons such as disrespectfulness, and discourtesy to

His father said that he will watch him and make sure that he does not do anything bad. After a while Boo’s father had kept him locked up for about 15 years, and no one has ever seen him since he first got locked up. After that Boo started to go crazy, one day “Boo was sitting in the living room cutting some items from the Maycomb Tribune to paste into his scrapbook. His father entered the room. As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parents leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities” (To Kill A Mockingbird 13). He had gone crazy for just being locked up in his house for about 15 years. Boo will most likely end up being locked up into his house for about another 5 more years. In the ending I believe that the kids will not meet Boo because they are to scared of him and that he is still locked up in his

Scout, Jem, and Dill work many summers to try to get Boo to come out of the Radley house for the first time in many years. Jem had been told many things about Boo in his short years in Maycomb, and he tells his sister Scout about the ‘monster’, saying, “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats 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 drooled most of the time” (chap. 1). Jem’s ideas about Boo are very biased toward rumors that can be heard around Maycomb. This shows how Maycomb’s people often judge before they know, seeing as no one has seen Boo Radley in over twenty years and people are prejudiced to believing the unknown is always bad. Prejudice and rumors can often not be trusted and Boo Radley is no exception. After Miss Maudie’s house catches fire and half the town rushes outside to watch it burn, Atticus tells Scout, “someday you should thank him for covering you up” then Scout asks, “Thank Who?” And gets a response from Atticus, “Boo Radley. You were too busy looking at the fire, you didn’t even notice when he put the blanket around you” (chap. 8). Boo Radley is not really a bad person, he

Another reason why the kids will not meet Boo is because the kids are scared of him. One reason why they are scared of him is that they are scared of the events that they have heard him do. As for them hearing that Boo Radley stabbed his father, they are a little apprehensive to the fact of seeing him. They do not want to be around a thirty-three year old man that may potentially hurt them. Furthermore, another reason why they are frightened by him is because they children think he kills animals. A quote to support this idea is “he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch” (Lee 16). As you can see with this explanation the children are quite frightened with the fact. Killing animals is a scary thing for the children, and there can be many rumors about the killing, which frightens the children. Jem, Scout and Dill are fearful of the Radleys for one more reason, they are not very enjoyable people to be around. When on the streets and the people pass Mr. Radley, he does not say hello, which is considered rude within a small town like

Backtracking years, even decades, one will find the origin of Boo Radley’s knack for violence. It started when he was just a teenager. Fitting in with the wrong crowd, he befriended the Cunninghams. The closest thing to a gang Maycomb ever had, they went around causing, not too much mayhem at first, but soon became more and more violent. The first serious offense they committed was locking poor old Mr. Conner, Maycomb’s beadle, in the courthouse outhouse after they resisted arrest. Now one might be thinking, Oh, that was a long time ago. Boo’s changed. Well, he hasn’t. He’s only become worse since then. Not even thirteen years ago, the town saw Boo for the first time in fifteen years, when he drove a pair of scissors into his father’s leg. Every single person in the town knows the truth; Boo Radley is lethal. This is proof that he has kept his violent nature over the years, perhaps practicing for when a racist pig of a man attacks two children. That is, two children he has been stalking.

In How to Kill a Mockingbird the kids, Jem and Scout, obsess over this man named Boo Radley. Boo never came out of his house and

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.

I am reading the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In chapters 1-3, a girl nicknamed Scout introduces her home of Maycomb County, Alabama in which she has scary neighbors and a new friend that comes there. She goes to her first day of school and gets in trouble for an unknown reason to her. Then, the rude Ewell family is introduced and described, and Scout talks to her father about not going to school. In this journal, I will be predicting the kids will not meet Boo because he is locked up and they are scared of him.

At the beginning of the story, Jem and Scout was young , childish and lacked the ability to see things from other's point of view. From the children's point-of-view, their most compelling neighbor is Boo Radley, a man that always stay in his house and none of them has ever seen. During the summer , they find Boo as a chracacter of their amusement. They sneak over to Boo house and get a peek at him. They also acting out an entire Radley family. "Jem parceled out our roles: I was Mrs. Radley, and all I had to do was come out andsweep the porch. Dill was old Mr. Radley: he walked up and down the sidewalk andcoughed when Jem spoke to him. Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the frontsteps and shrieked and howled from time to time"(chapter 4). Eventually , Atticus catch them and order

Throughout the novel, he monitors the children. One day while they were playing a game, Scout tire rolled right in front of the Radley house. While there she, heard laughter coming from inside the house. She thought it was Boo, but she kept it too herself. Later in the novel, it is revealed that the laughter was, in fact, Boo. He also risks his life to save Scout and Jem while they were being attacked by Bob Ewell. Ewell attacked the children while they were on their way to a Halloween pageant. Boo ends up killing Ewell in order to protect the children. This leading up into showing how he is also

Throughout Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem, Scout, and Boo Radley played a meaningful and important role. As the novel progressed the relationship of Jem, Scout, and Boo Radley developed in a significant way. The children had a growing curiosity of Boo Radley in the first few chapters of the novel. Eventually the curiosity faded as the children became more mature and the novel lost its innocence. However, by the end of the novel the events caused Jem and Scout to obtain an amicable relationship with Boo Radley. The development of the relationship between Boo Radley and the children created a meaningful back story which allowed the novel to have a heartwarming touch on many people.