How Does Lee Show Justice In To Kill A Mockingbird

Bob Ewell is a wretched, two-faced, conniving most unworthy person to have the gift of life in all of Alabama. He drinks a lot, does not bother to work, and he just collects welfare checks and spends them on alcohol. Harper Lee wrote, “a little bantam cock of a man . . . A shock of wispy new-washed hair stood up from his forehead; his nose was thin, pointed, and shiny; he had no chin to speak of—it seemed to be part of his crepey neck”(Lee 227) Harper describes Bob Ewell as a apathetic, tipsy, Neanderthal that can’t keep a job to save his skin. During Tom Robinson’s trial Bob Ewell tried to say that he beat his daughter Mayella and then raped her; when in in reality Bob Ewell is the one who beat Mayella. Another reason Bob Ewell is terrible person is at the end of the story when he tried to kill Scout and Jem. Harper Lee had wrote, “What is it, Heck? Said Atticus. Mr. Tate found his neck and rubbed it. Bob Ewell’s lyin’ on the ground under that tree down yonder with a kitchen knife stuck up under his ribs. He’s dead, Mr. Finch. (Lee 357). Mr. Ewell had aimed to kill Scout and Jem but Mr. Author James Radley, more commonly known as Boo Radley, saved their lives. Mr. Ewell was mad at Atticus because he knew that it wasn’t Tom who beat Mayella and raped her, so Bob Ewell saw that he could get back at Atticus by taking the lives if the two most important people in the world to him. Bob Ewell illustrates the dark side of

Boo Radley was an adult that was thought to believe that he stabbed his dad in the leg with scissors when he was a teenager. Scout, Jem, and Dill always feared him. The feared him so much, that they always cautioned whenever they crossed over to their house. They even made a dare that involved braveness and Boo Radley. ¨Well how'd you feel if you'd been shut up for a hundred years with nothin' but cats to eat?¨ But Boo isn’t is bad as he seems. First of all, it was uncertain, whether he actually stabbed his dad or not. Number 2, he’s been there for Scout. For example, he put the blanket around Scout, during the house fire of one of Scout’s neighbors. And how he saved Scout and Jem from

When the Flinch children moved into Maycomb bad rumors were spread about the Radley house, and soon the children were terrified of this “ghostly” neighbor. Little to their knowledge Boo Radley was not a scary mean person like they thought. Boo taught both Jem and Scout that you should not judge people based on what rumors say. For example, in the beginning of the novel Scout and Jem find a knothole in a tree, but when they kept going to the tree there was always something new, like someone had been putting presents for them in their. “I were trotting in our orbit one mild October afternoon when our knot-hole stopped us again. Something white was inside this time.” (page 79). Even though Boo knew that the kids were scared of him and that they believed the rumors he still put effort into making their day and giving them something. Another example was at the very end of the novel when Boo Radley saved Jem and Scouts life. At this moment Scout had a whole new respect for Boo because he wasn't what everyone said. He was better than that. “ A man was passing under it. The man was walking with the staccato steps of someone carrying a load too heavy for him. He was going around the corner. He was carrying jem. Jem’s arm was dangling crazily in front of him.”(page 352). That was Boo that was carrying Jem back to the Flinch house. Boo Radley saved their lives and Scout will never forget him and learned a valuable lesson

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, injustice is a main theme that is reflected towards many characters. To Kill a Mockingbird, is a novel written by Harper Lee and published in the nineteen-sixties. Many characters in the story are treated unfairly in society due to racial or prejudicial attitudes. Overall these characters are innocent victims of injustice. Atticus, Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson are considered to be mockingbirds in the novel. A mockingbird was defined as a bird that did nothing wrong, but sang beautiful music for us to hear. These characters did nothing wrong and were treated unfairly in their town. In this different society, there are many factors that have had an influence on people’s perceptions towards others.

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a multi-faceted novel which explores the principles and morals of people in the South during the 1930s. Mockingbirds are symbolic of the people that society abuse. Lee narrates the events of the novel using Scout’s voice and uses this technique to add emotional context and develop themes. Themes of racial and classist prejudice are developed by Lee to challenge the reader. These techniques are all powerful ways to alter the views of the reader.

The issue was started when Bob Ewell followed Scout and Jem home from their school pageant. Boo Radley saw the kids being attacked by Bob and even though he stays locked up in his house to stay away from drama, he left his house to protect the kids and kill Bob. It would be the just thing to do to put Boo on trial because he killed Mr. Ewell. It would be unfair to put Boo on trial because he was just defending Scout and Jem. Boo built his whole life trying to keep away from the outside world and all the drama that it holds. Putting Boo on trial for something that he spent so long working on would be unfair, but it would be the just thing to do. On page 304 Harper Lee wrote, “I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in his house all this time . . . it’s because he wants to stay inside.” Boo built his whole life trying to stay away from all the drama and to put him on trial to declare him a hero would be wrong. Atticus was given so much attention when the day after the trial with Tom. He was seen as a hero for trying to help a black man get freedom. No one likes the Ewells and Boo would be an even bigger hero if the public knew that Boo killed

Scout, Jem, and Dill then discuss why Boo stays hidden. This is when Dill explained, “Maybe he doesn’t have anywhere to runoff too” (Lee 192). Dill suggest that Boo might have been through a l;ot and doesn’t have any loved ones to go to. We then realize Boo symbolizes innocence being destroyed because when he was little he has had no one to care for or love. One of the most memorable scenes is when Atticus and Heck Tate realize that Boo killed Bob Ewell. They discuss whether or not to expose him but Scout comes in and states “well, it’d be sort of like shootin a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” (Lee 370). Scout believes that by exposing Boo to the public after all these years of him locked in his house, it would be like killing an innocent mockingbird. At this moment Boo Radley officially becomes a mockingbird.

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

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy,” says Miss Maudie. All Boo does is leave gifts for Scout and Jem, and protect them when they are attacked. Arresting Boo would not serve

Boo saved the kids when Mr. Bob Ewell attacked them.  “Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.  Boo was our neighbor.  He gave us two soap dolls,a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives”(Lee 323).  Boo Radley wanted to help the kids all the time and wanted to make sure they were always safe.  Boo Radley was in a very serious problem with Bob Ewell, Jem, and Scout.  He saved the children from Bob Ewell who attacked them.  He killed Bob and Mr. Heck Tate covered up the death of Bob Ewell to save disruption from Boo’s life.  “... and again when Scout tells her father the revealing Boo Radley’s role in Bob Ewell’s death would be “like shootin’ a mockingbird””(“To Kill a Mockingbird” 294).  Boo Radley killed Bob to protect the kids.  Heck Tate made a cover up story on how Bob fell back on his knife and died that way.  Scout later told Atticus that telling people the truth about Boo would be like killing a mockingbird.  The mockingbird and Boo are similar in many ways and having innocence is

He gave many gifts to Scout and Jem “He gave us 2 soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives”(Lee 373). Boo was very empathetic towards the kids; therefore, eventually Jem and Scout stop making fun of him. The gifts Boo gave the kids made them really happy and he enjoyed seeing it. Boo Radley was so courageous, nice, and empathetic he killed Bob Ewell to stop him from hurting Jem and Scout. It takes a lot of guts to do an act like that especially when your reputation is already poor. When Mrs.Maudie's house was burning in the fire Boo saw Jem and Scout out in the cold watching the fire. “Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn’t know it when he put the blanket around you”(Lee 96). He understood they were cold and couldn’t go back in the house so he helped them

Mr Radley was ashamed of his son’s behaviour when he got into the wrong crowd as a youngster and punished him by locking him up. There is a lot of gossip around Maycomb about Boo and people blame him for any bad things that happen in the neighbourhood, ‘Any stealthy crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.’ Jem turns him into a monster, ‘his hands were blood-stained’, and ‘his eyes popped’. At the end of the novel however, we find that Boo is misunderstood, and gossip of the town’s folk has made him up to be a ‘malevolent phantom’. Scout tells us he is timid, he had, ‘the voice of a child afraid of the dark’.

Have you ever had that moment in which you were telling the truth, but no one believed you because of various reasons? Similarly, in the book "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, justice is not served correctly because of racial discrimination. The jury’s judgement is racially biased, and it’s clearly evident that the men in the jury did not want to ruin their social statuses. This is also proven when the jury acknowledged the obvious lies from Bob, and consequently sentenced an innocent man to his death. This is all evident during Tom Robinson's trial in chapter seventeen to twenty-one.

The first big thing to look at is atticus’s quote, when we apply this to other things in the story we find a common trend between a handful of characters. The biggest of those being Tom Robinson, this is because in the story Harper Lee uses the symbolization of a mockingbird to compare it to something or someone who does something purely to please others. The mockingbird birds of the book usually the people who had tried to help and benefit others but got involved in bad thing. Tom always would do work for the Ewells but in the end they sent him to jail where he died, which is where the term to kill a mockingbird is used or the slaughtering of innocents. Other people we see to be categorized as mockingbirds are Boo Dill and Mr Dolphus Raymond, there is more for the book is based on the preying on innocents.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee and published in 1960. It was a very successful book, winning the Pulitzer Prize and becoming a modern American classic. Ostensibly, the title of To Kill a Mockingbird has scant literary connection to the plot of the story, but the recurring mockingbird motif symbolizes the innocent and good characters in this novel. Miss Maudie explains to Scout why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird: “Your father’s right. Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. 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. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” To Kill a Mockingbird likens three characters, Tom Robinson, Arthur “Boo” Radley, and Atticus Finch, to mockingbirds.