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Examples Of Archetypes In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In “To Kill A Mockingbird” the characters portray archetypes depending on their personality. Where evil characters live among the good of society in this case the Maycomb community it can lead to unfairness in the rights of the citizens for the right decision. All the characters made the huge impact of the becoming of “To Kill A Mockingbird” in the way their behaviors represent what there is in a society such as ours in the real world. Each fit in their own style of what they resembled in the book and also developed the events of what had happened in Maycomb.
Boo Radley’s character fits into the evil figure with a good heart archetype. As quoted in the novel Jem’s description of him was “ he is six and a half feet tall, dined on squirrels, and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained.” The description is as of a monster’s behavior not only by Jem, but also by the whole Maycomb community fears Boo.. As the novel progresses the children start to figure out Boo’s behavior “I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up …show more content…

He rapes and abuses his daughter, Mayella. Even gets drunk to the point that his children have to depend on hunting in order to gather food. “When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.” Maycom provides a hunting season for the children not to suffer from hunger. Then Tom Robinson explained how Mayella managed to give children enough money to buy ice cream. “Took me a slap year to save seb’m nickels, but I done it. This quote illustrates Mayella while saving up for her siblings treat had to handle her father’s abuse frequently. . “Low down skunk with enough liquor in him to make him brave enough to kill children. Heck tate with these simple words described Bob Ewell well with not wanting to confront Atticus, but instead going after his children for the sake of Bob wanting

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