Essay On Scout Finch's Life

After the jury deliberates longer than expected, they come back and announce that Tom Robinson is guilty of all charges. Bob Ewell, who is the one who accused Tom Robinson of rape vows to take his revenge out on Atticus a black man. It comes out in the paper that Tom Robinson tried to escape prison and ended up being shot. During the night of Halloween when Scout and Jem are coming home from a school event, they start to feel like they are being followed. It turns out to be the Bob Ewell and he starts attacking Scout and Jem. Boo-Radley ends up stabbing Bob Ewell to help the children get away. The book ends with the sheriff convincing Atticus that Bob Ewell’s death will be one that was an accident caused by himself.

Arthur Radley, also known as Boo Radley, is the children's childhood mystery man. The rumors circled the entire neighborhood and the absurdity of them ranged from watching people at night to eating raw squirrels and cats. Scout, Jem, and their friend Dill took a special interest in Boo Radley, but what they did not know was that Boo Radley was watching their lives unfold. He served as their protector and even provided gifts to the children to get them through the hardships they went through. ¨Summer, and he watched his children's heart break. Autumn again, and Boo's children needed him.¨(Lee, 374) Despite the horrendous rumors that the children believed about Radley, he is an empathetic person and did not judge them for believing what they believe and saves the children's lives. Empathy was also shown towards Boo Radley from an unexpected character, Mr. Heck Tate, the Maycomb sheriff. ¨...Mr. Finch, taking the one man who's done you and this town a great service an' draggin' him with his shy way into the limelight--to me, that's a sin.¨(Lee,369-370) After saving Atticus's children, Mr. Heck Tate knew that the town would not leave Boo Radley in peace, and decides to change the story to keep Boo Radley out of the limelight. Empathy was carefully conveyed in the character of Boo Radley, and Mr. Heck

Even though the Lawyer on the case, Atticus, who is father of the narrator, Scout, Clearly proves that Tom is not guilty, since he doesn’t even have a left arm. Even though the jury realizes that Bob Ewell was the one who attacked his daughter, and Tom never raped Mayella, the verdict was still proven guilty only because of Tom’s skin color. Near the end of the novel, Bob Ewell tried to attack the kids of Atticus, Jem and Scout, because he felt humiliated after everyone knew that he cheated his way through the case, Boo Radley who is neighbor of the Finches, whom is also a recurring yet dormant character in the book, tries to defend the kids, and the sheriff, Heck Tate knows that Boo Radley was the one who killed Bob Ewell, he states that he fell on his own knife when he tries to attack the kids, and uses his forsaken innocence as his justification, since Boo Radley never deliberately tried to harm anyone. This example from the novel relates to the quote because Bob Ewell was clearly getting his way, and using society’s racism as his altercation, but then distinctly, was struck with unintentional retaliation, by Boo Radley, a man who never leaves his

Mr. Edwin, your reader response is outstanding and marvelous. It is what I think about the situation. As you have mentioned the decision which Atticus and Sheriff Tate took was against the law and it is a big crime to hide the truth of a murder case. But in their situation the murderer was Radley Boo, who was assumed to be a terrible person and everyone from the town consider him as a horrible person, who can harm anyone because it been a very long time the Maycomb people have not seen him as he did not come from his house. One day when Bob Ewell was trying to kill Atticus’s children then he came out from his house and save the lives of Jem and Scout which is definitely a very great effort from him. Still knowing the truth of Bob’s murder,

In the story To Kill a Mockingbird, Mayella Ewell accuses Tom Robinson, a black man, of raping her even though her father is abusing her. Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson’s defender, was a local attorney who Mr. Ewell hated because he was going against him and his daughter. To get revenge on Atticus, Mr. Ewell attempted to murder Jem and Scout, Atticus’ children. Boo Radley, a local shut-in, saved the children and stabbed Mr Ewell. Sheriff Tate lied and said that Mr. Ewell fell on his own knife.

Ewell attempts to stab Scout and Jem, but an unsuspected hero comes and saves them. Boo Radley courageously swoops in and helps the children when Mr. Ewell attempts to stab Scout, but fails when Jem rips him to the ground, but is hurt in the action. Boo Radley then carries Jem home “the man was carrying Jem. Jem’s arm was dangling crazily in front of him. Light from our front door framed Atticus for an instant; he ran down the steps, and together, he and the man took Jem inside” (Lee 223). Atticus and Heck Tate then defend Boo Radley for the murder of Mr. Ewell: “I never heard tell that it's against the law for a citizen to do his utmost to prevent a crime from being committed, which is exactly what he did” (Lee 234). This quote from Heck Tate shows that they support Boo Radley and will protect him even though Mr. Ewell is dead.

At the beginning of the story Scout tells the Radley’s story, giving an explanation to why they are treated as outsiders in their own community. How Arthur “Boo” Radley was “locked in the courthouse basement” (Lee 14) and

In Harper Lee's novel To Kill A Mockingbird the protagonist Scout face offenses by others because of her father's justice for defending an African American in court. Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem, and their father Atticus, in the sleepy town of Maycomb during the Great Depression. As Atticus, the father of the protagonist faces the moral dilemma in chapter 29-30 of the incident with Bob Ewell. Atticus moral dilemma will reveal his character and his beliefs. Bob Ewell attempted to hurt Atticus children in order to get revenge on Atticus for defending the African American who was accused of raping his daughter in court. Atticus has a hard time of choosing whether to tell the town that Bob Ewell died of an accident, or his son or Boo

In “To Kill a Mockingbird” Scout, the narrator of the story is being unfair by judging some people that she has only heard of but never met them. Scout had been saying that the Radley family was crazy and psycho yet she never talked to them. In the novel, the narrator, Scout, tells us how she had heard as a rumor that Mr.Radley had tied up his son, Boo Radley because he had allegedly try to stab Mrs. Radley.

During and after the trial, Atticus and the kids faced even more injustice. Mr. Gilmer was unfair to Atticus during the trial. When Atticus tried to talk, Mr. Gilmer would yell at him to be quiet. After the trial was over, Jem and Scout got attacked by Bob Ewell. He attacked them because the kids were against him in the trial. Boo Radley came in quickly, saved the kids, and killed Bob Ewell. The people of Maycomb would give the Finch family weird looks on the street and talk dirty behind their back. When Calpurnia brought Jem and Scout to her church, one of the black people got in their faces and asked them to leave. “‘He reads all right, that’s all he does,’”(218).

Scout Finch lives in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930’s. She lives with her brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus. Scout is telling the stories of her childhood from some point in the future. Scout has many experiences that shape her maturity and her outlook on society. In their early childhood, Scout and her brother Jem, along with mutual friend Dill, spend a lot of time together and understand each other. They all have interest in a mysterious neighbor named Boo Radley. Scout at first believes Boo to be a cruel, evil monster and much time is spent between the three discussing Boo and his reasons for staying inside the house all day. The Finches lives’ are pretty ordinary until Atticus is selected to defend a black man in court. The man is named

In the beginning of the novel, we are introduced to Scout Finch, the youngest in the Finch family. Scout lives with her older brother, Jem, and her father, Atticus Finch. The finch family lives in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama. In the first chapter, Scout and Jem are really close friends with a boy named Dill. Down the street is the Radley house. So many people have spread rumors about the Radley family, especially about their youngest Boo Radley, who had been rumored to have once stabbed his mother with a pair of scissors. Later on in the story, Dill goes back home and Scout and Jem prepares for school. Scout’s teacher Miss Caroline does not understand kids well. Miss Caroline does not understand Scouts especially, so she punishes her.

To kill a mockingbird is an amazing novel the author Harper Lee really makes the reader intrigued throughout the book. Throughout the novel I learn new words each time I read giving my brain a chance to eat up some knowledge. Taking Place in Maycomb County a place full of mystery and adventure the events that follow in this novel is magnificent and intriguing it gave me chills and great suspense.For example, the scene in Chapter four where Scout rolled into the Radley gate, making her terrified. The narrator, Scout your average tomboy, daughter of Atticus Finch, and a child with a taste of adventure . She learned how to read before the beginning of school, confident always ready to fight boys without fear, and an unusually good child always

Scout begins the film being six years old and living in the fictional Alabama town of Maycomb with her brother Jeremy “Jem” Finch and her widowed father Atticus Finch, who is the towns lawyer. The film follows Scout through three summers in the 1930s, during which her father defends a black man on trial for beating and raping a white woman. Another major event emphasized in To Kill a Mockingbird is the children’s interest in Arthur “Boo” Radley, a recluse in their neighborhood who the children, spurred on by town rumors of him having attacked his family when he was young, are afraid of and confused by until the end of the movie, where he saves Scout and Jem from an attack. Throughout the film we see Scout, a rambunctious “tomboy” who enjoys playing with her brother and summer neighbor Dill, go through childhood in a time plagued with racism, the Great Depression, and restricting gender roles.

After Scout finished a class with Ms. Gates when Ms. Gates was explaining how Hitler was cruel and brutal. She further elaborated on how Hitler was different than the US, because “we don’t believe in persecuting anybody” (329). Scout was frustrated; she was unable to relate Ms. Gates reasoning to racism and violence against African Americans in the US after the persecution of Tom Robinson. Scout question society’s hypocrisy, when she asked Jem, “Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an’ then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home-” (331). Scout began to realize society’s hypocrisy, when they disagree with Hitler but persecute African Americans unfairly. She realized after the racism in the Tom Robinson trial eliminated her innocence to the sensitive topic. Scout’s innocence and childhood myths about Boo Radley slowly faded away along with the Tom Robinson trial. Boo Radley saved Scout’s life when Bob Ewell came after her and Jem with a knife. Scout explained that Boo Radley couldn’t have been murdered, because, “ Well it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” (370). Scout connected the Tom Robinson case and Bob Ewell’s hypocrisy. Boo Radley was innocent and didn’t deserve to die. Scout’s character development throughout the book was also reflected in Jem’s