As I stand before you today; I hope that everything is tickety-Boo.
Have you ever heard or used the word or expression Tickety-Boo? Tickety-Boo is an intriguing word that I found when searching through words for this assignment. Stated in the dictionary as an adjective, Tickety-Boo originated in or around the 1930’s; it has been around for a long time. The Origin is that of Hindi or British. The meaning is; everything is in good order; fine; or, everything is okay. So, as I stand before you today; I hope that everything is Tickety-Boo.
The article I found on the word Tickety-Boo, was published in The New York times on March 25th, 1990, and was written by William Safire. The name of this article is: “On Language; Tickety-Boo and NASA, Too”.
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The article continues to say, that when looking further into the background of the word tickety-boo it had also been used by columnist George Will, in 1977 when projecting ahead: “The morning after the 1978 elections Republicans were feeling tickety-boo.” A.P. correspondent Hugh A. Mulligan, would use Tickety-boo, when recalling the early day of space flight, when he wrote “the supercool British correspondent whose mastery of the Queen’s English enabled him instantly to translate ‘Shorty’ Powers’s, historic ‘A-O.K.’, to ‘Tickety-boo.” Apparently, the word Tickety-boo also found its way into song in the early 1960’s, by a Women’s Kitchen Band made up of about 50 housewives playing their pots, pans, and kazoos played ‘Everything is Tickety-Boo’ in an appearance on the “Ted Mack Amateur Hour”. Further digging would find that the word Tickety-Boo had also turned up in 1947 in the journal, American notes and Queries: “Lord Mountbatten, Governor General of India, is credited in The New York Times Magazine with ‘giving currency’ to the phrase tickety-boo (or tiggerty-boo). This was a Royal Navy term for ‘O.K.’ taken from the Hindustani.” There is also the submission in the Oxford English Dictionary in 1939, where author Noel Streatfeild, states that development of the word tickety-boo, as unknown, but speculates that it is from Hindi meaning
As the people of the town never saw Boo leave his house they thought that he was bad. Boo had no chance to stand up for himself because he always stayed inside. Through dialogue he is characterized by what the people of Maycomb County say about him, which caused misjudgement. (add quote) Through the character of Boo we are taught that just because one acts different and lives a different life that they are not always scary and bad. After Scout meets Boo at the end of the book she realizes that he is not a complete monster with “jagged teeth” and “eats squirrels” (pg 14) he is a peaceful and good man. It is easy to misjudge
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
Since Boo hadn’t left his house in many years, nobody knew what he looked like and if he was rich or poor, so many of the residents of Maycomb assumed the worst. They guessed that he lived in a messy, old house and was going to hurt or even kill anyone that got near where he lived. Some didn’t even think he was alive.
After Jem reflects back on the events that have happened in Maycomb he says, “ Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley stayed shut up in the house all this time… it’s because he wants to stay inside” (Lee 227). The labels that were given to Boo could have made him feel isolated, causing him to want to stay in his house. Boo must have been saddened by theses labels, and the hurtful words could have caused him to not want to go outside. At the beginning of the story Scout is talking about Boo and begins to describes the rumors she heard about Boo. She acknowledges that, “ According to Miss Stephanie Crawford … as Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the sissors into his parent’s leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities” (Lee 11). Not only can labels affect people but the rumors about some one can hurt them as well. This is another reason why Boo could have decided to stay in his house, he may have known what people were saying and was discouraged by their words. Boo is affected by labels, causing him to feel lonley and
Rumors about him attempting to kill his dad and that he eats raw animals. “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. ”- Lee There are plenty more spread out about him. The quote actually matters because by the end of the book Scout realizes that Boo is actually a really nice and non harmful person.
Every kid in Maycomb county was scared of him, even walking past his house was a scary task for some. Boo is portrayed as the bad guy in the book, but I believe he was the total opposite. One day he randomly decided to stab his father while he was cutting out paper, and he thought nothing of it. In the book, it never really mentions what his motives for doing this were, which can show that Boo was misunderstood. Even though he did not care for his father he still cared for other people. He left several gifts like gum and soap dolls in a tree trunk, which Jem and Scout found and kept for themselves. He also wrapped a blanket around Jem and Scout when Miss Maudie’s house caught on fire. One of the kindest things he did in the book was when he saved his neighbors, Jem and Scout, from being killed by Bob
Boo! Boo! Such a word is often used to scare siblings, or hung up on houses around Halloween. However, in the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Boo is something regularly discussed, but not as a word. No, Boo is a nickname for the furtive Arthur Radley, the neighbor to the Finches. Throughout the novel, Boo is regarded as something of a Boogieman, a story used by Jem to frighten Scout and Dill.
One person from the town of Maycomb, Jem, who is Atticus’ son, describes Boo at the beginning of the book. He tells Scout that Boo “dined on raw squirrels” and that he had a “long jagged scar” across his face (Lee 60). Jem’s description is obviously not true, because the townspeople have not seen Boo for several years. Everything Jem made up about Boo was based off a single footprint Jem found in the dirt out by the road. In other words, he made it up from nothing. This shows that people thought Boo
( Lee, 14 ). Boo is a sweet, gentle and, innocent men, and Boo has never hurt anyone but in the maycomb, he is demonstrated as mysterious creature that everyone in the town is afraid of him and mocked by people in the maycomb. Miss maudie’s definition of the mockingbird is they “ don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy… but sing their heart out for us” ( Lee 103 ). He is also the guy in maycomb that who was innocent and not harmful man who was being charged with of crimes that he have never committed in his life, but instead he wanted to be friend.
Boo just sat there in the wake of cutting his dad. He didn't apologize or feel regret for his activities.Boo Radley disconnects himself from the general population of Maycomb. Boo remains inside his home throughout the day and no one ever observes him. After some issue with the law, "Mr. Radley's kid was not seen again for fifteen years"(10). In the event that Boo goes outside, he will be unjustifiably seen as a guest because of his secretive ways. Boo remains inside his home since he realizes that his general public will mock him. Boo has lost his fundamental social aptitudes and won't go outside of his home. Boo is known of gossip and is seen as the towns scary figure. The town theorizes what he does inside his home. Individuals think that Boo "went out around evening time when the moon was down, and peeped in windows... any stealthy little violations submitted in Maycomb were his work"(9). The town would fault or denounce Boo for any little wrongdoing or unexplained marvel. Kids guess and also the grown-ups. Jem hypothesizes to Dill "Boo was around six and a half feet tall, ... there was a since quite a while ago rough scar that kept running over his face;
In the novel, Boo's character symbolizes honesty; his character is an innocuous, genuine man who does nothing to the town except for stay inside more often than not. The topic, it is a wrongdoing to murder a mockingbird, is spoken to by Boo's character in the way that he doesn't add to the town's assumed 'sickness', yet the town still makes numerous inconsiderate suspicions about him. Atticus tells Scout ordinarily in the book that it is a wrongdoing to slaughter a mockingbird on the grounds that they don't do anything yet sing and make exquisite music for individuals. This is precisely the same as Boo's circumstance on the grounds that he is spoken to by the mockingbird, and it isn't a good fit for the individuals to discuss him and make bits of gossip about him, on the grounds that he doesn't do anything to mischief anybody, he just stays inside a great deal.
Boo can be considered a mockingbird because of his innocence that he portrays in the book. In particular, Miss Maudie described a mockingbird and said “They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.” (P.119). This quote perfectly characterizes Boo because he never harassed anyone and only did good. Boo always stayed inside his house and rarely left it. Boo did only good such as, watching over all the kids and protecting them when things got bad. In addition, Atticus tells Jem “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it” (P.30). After Jem finds out who Boo really is, she sees that he is a nice and innocent person who does only good, which shows that he can be considered a mockingbird. To summarize, Boo’s personality and his way of life shows how he can be considered a mockingbird in the
Since Scout and Jem could remember, Boo was in his house, never to be seen, no one ever got to know him, and no one asked him how he felt. It was said that he stabbed his parents, and sometimes he would walk around at night looking into peoples windows: “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch… his hands were bloodstained… 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.” (Lee 16) This description was given by Jem, who had never seen Boo, but planted in the mind of himself and his sister that Boo was a bloodthirsty savage. As the kids grew up, later in the story they eventually understood how Boo felt, they grew out of their naivety, and looked at things through Boo’s eyes.
During the time that Boo or Arthur Radley was being kept in his house by his own father, many of the townspeople became almost superstitious about Boo, they would say he would walk by their own houses and scratch on their windows, one lady even said she saw him through the window others said he walks by shuffling his feet but I think with a mind like Boo he would be too scared or shy even to leave his house knowing that everyone in town was disgusted at his sight. The whole reason Boo was to be kept in his house, was he first locked Maycomb's county beadle in an outhouse then stabbed his father's leg with a pair of scissors, whether that was an accident we have no idea, but all his mother did
Boo is like a monster to Dill, Jem and Scout throughout the beginning of the novel although once the children see that he leaves them gifts inside a knothole in the tree in between their houses. He is only seen on one occasion in the novel, although he is talked about many times because Scout and Jem take an interest in him once they start to find out who he really is as a person. Boo Radley never really left his house even when he could simply because