Gunshots heard in Maycomb’s Neighborhood - Just last night, Nathan Radley was found firing at an unidentified negro lurking in his backyard. According to Nathan Radley, it was midnight when he was awoken by noises from his collard patch. When he gets up to investigate, he saw two prowlers trying to break into his window to rob his home. He grabbed his shotgun and shot at them but misses. “Scared him pale. If anyone sees a white nigger around, that’s the one,” says Nathan. “I imagine there were three prowlers based on recovered vague footprints,”says Sheriff Heck Tate from the Maycomb Police Department. The Police Department also suspected the prowlers must had entered the yard under the Radley’s wired fence. A nearby neighbor, Mrs. Henry
Jagged facial scars, disgusting yellow teeth, big bug eyes and drool dripping from his mouth, were the rumors that were spread about a man that will later show his true self to the Finch children, as a kind and caring person. The small town of Maycomb, located in Alabama, is a town where everybody knows everybody business. It is a place where rumors are guaranteed to go around, rumors about a man named Arthur Radley. Arthur “Boo” Radley is not how everyone perceived him to be in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, as shown through the town’s image of Boo, the foreshadowing taking place at the scene of Miss Maudie’s house catching fire, as well as the plot twist that takes place at the end of the book.
Everyone in Maycomb believes that the Radleys are dangerous and no one dares to really talk to them. They don’t follow the unwritten social rules that everyone else follows, and that is weird and mysterious to people. The community is mostly suspicious of Arthur Radley, also known as Boo Radley. People believe he is hostile because when he was a teen, he got in with the wrong crow and was arrested. Fifteen years later, he had another incident.
him is seen as a figure of mystery and fear in the eyes of Scout and
There was also a neighborhood legend, that stated “According to the neighborhood legend, when the younger Radley boy was in his teens he became acquainted with some of the Cunninghams from Old Sarum, an enormous and confusing tribe domiciled in the norther part of the county, and they formed the nearest thing to a gang ever seen in Maycomb.” (Harper Lee, page. 9&10). The legend brought a lot of fright upon children and was also a big reason of a lot of theories.
Locked in a dark house, never leaving, lives a man known as Boo Radley. In a small town in Alabama known as Maycomb, the narrator of “To Kill A Mockingbird” a young girl named Scout, her brother Jem, and best friend Dill’s, worlds’ revolved around the mysterious Radley house. Atticus, Jem and Scout’s father was bothered by their obsession with the character Boo Radley. Finally they did leave him alone when their world turned around when Atticus took a court case defending Tom Robinson, who was being tried for the rape of Mayella Ewell. Being a black man, Tom was bound to be found guilty, no matter the evidence. Atticus having good morals took it knowing he’d lose, because he knew he wouldn’t be able to live with himself without even defending
America lies in the wake of the impending presidential election, which has been shrouded in controversy from its infancy. FBI investigations, leaked emails, private recordings, rape allegations, and indubitable untruths have pledged both front-runners. Despite the foul taste left in the mouth of many Americans by Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton, they have come out victorious in their campaign to represent their respective party as the nominee for president. While it was once widely believe that the American people democratically elect the president of the United States, through current influences such as the media, Internet, and growing population an exuberant amount of Americans believe that their vote no longer counts, thus posing the question who’s really in control of the electoral process? In the past, the call to question of the integrity of the electoral processes was strictly reserved for the most devout conspiracy theorist, but with the pullulating concerns over super delegates, average sound mind Americans are not sure the full truth is being told. Has America been fed at noble lie? A simple answer yes, a more complex answer America has been fed a misconception disguised as a lie.
Fear of the unknown prompts Maycomb society to fabricate false rumors about Boo Radley and by doing so, isolate him as an outcast. The Radley family is different from the other families in Maycomb society as they do not follow the accepted traditions of the townspeople: “The Radleys...kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb...The shutters and doors of the Radley house were always closed on Sundays, another thing alien to Maycomb ways” (9). By describing the Radleys as “alien”, Lee reveals the extent to which the family is unknown to Maycomb. Since their customs are unusual of a Maycomb family, they are distanced from the rest of society, thus making them even more mysterious and alien to the townspeople. However, this is just the beginning for a string of unexplainable and incomprehensible actions concerning the Radleys. After an incident with the law, the son Arthur Radley “was not seen again for fifteen years” until one day he “drove his scissors into his parent’s leg…[and] Mrs. Radley ran screaming into the street that Arthur was killing them all”, a rumor spread by the town gossip (10-11). The first event scares the townspeople as they cannot understand why a person would associate with bad influences and commit such acts of violence in disregard of the law. Also, being locked
Boo Radley is labeled an outcast and an outsider by the society of Maycomb because of the rumors and myths that have surrounded him through the years of being confined to his brother’s home. For over twenty-five years, Boo Radley has been restricted to the indoor limits of the Radley house suppressing him further from the Maycomb community. Arthur “Boo” Radley was a troublesome child who sadly continued to make wrong choices once he became
Arthur “Boo” Radley had rarely faced any real danger except in his childhood when he was “mixed up with the wrong crowd”, after that his father kept him inside most of his life so he could be protected from the outside world. The people of Maycomb didn’t know that was the reason he stayed
When the narrator, Scout, describes the relative location of the Ewell estate, she reveals that “Maycomb’s Ewells lived behind the town garbage dump in what was once a negro cabin” (172). The fact that the dump was once a place where a black cabin had once had a foundation there is dehumanizing the black people as a whole. The white community racist views on the black community enabled them to value the location of their trash over a negro resting place. Similarly, Thomas Robinson and the whole black community was stripped of their humanity on the day if Tom’s death. On the day of Robinson’s death, it was reported that he had “seventeen bullets holes in him” (239). Those responsible for the death of Tom Robinson are most definitely racist white men. The men shot Thomas like he was a large wild animal. Due to most of the white men being racist toward black people, Robinson was shot and killed as though he is not a human being, dehumanting him. Racism is also the cause for the majority of white people being hostile toward a person of
Racism is a big contributor to the disorder and dysfunction that occurs in the small town Maycomb. For example, when Calpurnia, the Finch's cook, brings Jem and Scout to her church that mainly consists of African Americans, someone at the door says, “I wants to know why you bringin white chillun to nigger church” (Lee 135). People were expected to go to church with someone of the same race during this time; if this did not happen, then they were treated differently. Boo Radley, a neighbor to the Finch’s, stabbed his father, Mr. Radley, in the leg with scissors in the beginning of the story, and “The Sheriff hadn’t the heart to put him in jail alongside Negroes, so Boo was locked in the courthouse basement”(Lee 12). Whites and Blacks did not even want to be in the same vicinity as the other color. When Tom Robinson was brought to trial, Dill became really upset when Mr. GIlmer “called him ‘boy’ all the time and sneered at him, an’ looked around at the jury every time he answered” (Lee 226). Mr. Gilmer did not show Tom Robinson any respect when he should have because people in their society had no respect for blacks. Since racism causes a big trial towards the end of the story, it causes the loss of life of an innocent man.
2. Arthur Radley, or “Boo Radley”, the son of Mr. Radley is a distant, lonely, isolated man who isn’t ever seen by people outside his house. People in Maycomb perceive him as an awful person, with a terrifying appearance who fills them with aghast.
2. Arthur Radley, or “Boo Radley”, the son of Mr. Radley is a distant, lonely, isolated man who isn’t ever seen by people outside his house. People in Maycomb perceive him as an awful person, with a terrifying appearance who fills them with aghast.
Abandoned by her husband and left penniless, Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, lived in a small alley apartment on the lower middle-class section of town with her two adult children Tom and Laura, which was far cry from Amanda’s youth during the Victorian era at Blue Mountain to her present situation of poverty and uncertainty. As a single mother, Amanda was worried about her family’s financial security along with concerns about her daughter’s lack of marital prospects; for that reason, her need to enrich her life by molding the lives of her children resulted in illusions overpowering reality that also brought out destructive illusions within herself, her son Tom, and her daughter Laura.
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