Fear In To Kill A Mockingbird

When we first meet this curious character he is preferred to as a "recluse" who refuses to leave his house. Jem, one of the children, describes Boo as a six -and-a half feet tall monster with a long jagged scar that ran across his face and teeth yellow and rotten teeth from dining on raw squirrels and any stray cats he could catch. This of course is only a fictional description of Boo, thought up by the children’s active imaginations. Throughout the story we see that Boo's intentions are in fact sincere and he is actually an intelligent child emotionally damaged by his cruel father, we see this in the way that he leaves little presents for Scout and Jem and emerges at an opportune moment to save the

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“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will” (Stephens). Fear is a big part of one’s life. Fear affects many things including people’s behavior, actions and their state of mind. Even though fear is in everyone not all have the same fears, everyone is made differently, by their culture, their race and their religion, fear is the same it defines what a person will accomplish. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows her readers that fear is a significant part in the novel since it’s the reason for most people’s actions. By looking further into the book the result of fear is present in Tom Robinson’s case, Boo Radley and Bob Ewell.

I am reading the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In the first three chapters of the book we were introduced to many characters, we found out about the Radley house, and we learned about the Ewell family. In the second chapter, Dill had dared Jem to touch the Radley house, which Jem accepted because Jem never says no to a dare, and in the third chapter, we met Burris Ewell and Jem was told that she could not read any more by Miss Caroline. In this journal, I will be predicting the kids will not meet Boo because he is locked up and they are scared.

"I wanted to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun." What kinds of heroism and courage are shown in To Kill a Mockingbird? Discuss.

      The boys in the book, The Lord of the Flies, are controlled by their fear of the beast.  This fear is not of the beast itself, but of the unknown. It comes from not knowing whether or not a beast exists.

When reading To Kill To A Mockingbird many charterers walked in someone else's shoes which is a big theme of the book. Scout was one of these charters she walked in Boo Radley’s shoes. At the end of the book, she walked Arthur home and she sees the whole book from his perspective. She sees two children running down the sidewalk and in the winter two kids shivering in the cold. In the book, Scout also walked in Walter Jr.’s shoes. Calpurnia talked to Scout after Walter was eating a different way than they do and Scout pointed that out and embarrassed Walter. She started to see through his perceptive. She realized that they eat that way because they were raised like that and that it is not his fault. Atticus was another charter that had

In 1971, a psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted an experiment to see the impact of fear. What did fear do to man? He was able to simulate an experiment with prisoners and guards and found out at the end of his experiment that the prisoner had severe stress and anxiety. The experiment demonstrated “the powerful role that the situation can play in human behavior”. This experiment showed what a particular situation can influence human behavior. In the book, The Lord of the Flies, the characters are on a stranded island where the environment is governing their human behavior and how they react to one another. The character are influenced by fear and behave in ways that they normally would not act in their everyday lives. Man is controlled by fear and it can cause him to do things that he would never imagine doing. Fear results in letting go of your natural instincts and goes to your survival instincts, and makes you become an animal.

Throughout this journal, one can predict the kids will not meet Boo because he is locked up and they are scared of him. One reason why the kids will not meet Boo is because he is locked up. A reason to support this is because he stabbed his father with a pair of scissors. One quote from the book to give you a visualization is “As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities” (Lee 13). As you can see Boo can not think through his actions before doing them. He does not see that what he does deeply affects others around him. Next, another reason he is locked up is nobody sees a lot of activity coming in and out of the Radley household. Maycomb is a quiet

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

Throughout this journal, I will predict that the kids will not meet Boo because he is locked up and they are scared of him. First off, Boo is locked up. One reason the kids think he is locked up is because Jem and

Boo was seen as an evil phantom in the beginning of the book but later on in the book he was described to be a friendly person. Radley’s family has always been anti-social. Since they are anti-social the matters of the family never came out so, people started to assume about them. Most of the rumors are about Boo because he hasn’t been out of the house for years. The rumors were that he stabbed his father with scissors during his 15th year and he was chained to the bed as punishment. Jem, Scout, and Dill actually believed these rumors were true at first. They even use play a game, where they are acting one of the Radley's family

Boo was extremely misunderstood. In chapter one, we find out that the entire neighborhood is afraid of Radley and his family. Everyone has made up stories about The Radleys. According to their neighbor, Miss Stephanie Crawford, he stabbed his dad with some scissors. In multiple chapters, Scout mentions that people have said that Boo eats wild animals. In chapter four, they mention that he bit off his mother’s fingers because he could not find any cats or squirrels to eat. Due to these stories about Boo, people wanted to kill him. Boo also never left his house. Scout’s brother Jem thought that Boo never left his house because his dad had him chained to the bed. While talking about misunderstanding people, Atticus hints at Boo and Walter Ewell. He tells her,

Courage is something only a few souls had in Maycomb, the small and tired town in Alabama. Not everybody could stand up to their beliefs, so they follow and agree to whatever other people say, not realizing the effects that take place in their lack of courage. Without courage, the kids who hold the future are not taught to speak their mind which inhibits their mindset to flourish and their ignorance to deepen. But, in the sleepy town of Maycomb, there are a few individuals who are courageous and voice out their opinion even though it’s different from everyone else's.

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