Outsiders In To Kill A Mockingbird

Dill represents childhood innocence.When Tom is examined by the prosecutor he cries. "That old Mr.Gilmer doin' him thataway, talking so hateful to him[...]It made me sick, plain sick"(pg 198-199)He also brings a sense of adventure and exploration, particularly with Boo Radley. He sparks the interest with Boo Radley.(scout tells what jem said)"[...]He said it began the summer dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea to make Boo radley come out."(pg 1)His family is very different from the Finch's. He has a broken family and is not payed attention to. On the other hand Atticus takes his parenting seriousley even more so because they don't have a mother. Unlike the Finch's, dill has hardly any adult supervision and even ran from home to spend his summer with scout and jem. His presence brings contrast to the lifestyles..

“It takes a village to raise a child”, is an African Proverb. In other words, it can take more than just a child’s nuclear family to make her grow into who she will be as an adult. This lens is true because even though parents and siblings have a major effect on a child, and how they turn out later on in life, society and a child’s surrounding are what really shapes, and makes them who they are. What a child sees when he or she is new to the world, and doesn’t know everything, effects their behavior, and outlook on their life ahead. This lens is illustrated in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by

To Kill a Mockingbird is a fascinating novel by Harper Lee about a young white girl named Scout and how she learns to live and deal with a racist society. Each character in the this novel holds different characteristics and different points of views. One of those characters includes Charles Baker Harris, other known as “Dill”. His personality and point of view is a little different from the Finch children, and that’s what makes him an interesting character. Even though Dill’s character is adventurous, imaginative, curious, and slightly innocent, he can be serious at times, and those moments change his characteristics and views on the world around him.

Dill, also known as Charles Baker Harris, visiting Jem and Scout Finch every summer became an expectation in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, but as summer approaches, Dill writes Scout to inform her that his plans for the season have been altered. Subsequently following an altercation between Jem and Scout in Chapter Fourteen, Scout retreats to her room for the night and believes a snake slips under her bed after being stepped on, but the so called snake reveals itself as Dill. Dill’s actions throughout the chapter aid in the indirect characterization of his character. For example, when asked about how he arrived in Maycomb, Dill tells Jem and Scout two improbable stories about an abusive new father and traveling with an animal show, as

Racism, Segregation and ill-treatment of coloured is major theme explored in the text by Harper Lee. This problem in the little town of Maycomb is just a tiny reflection in the corner of the mirror, of America at the time. And even the world, with references to Nazi Russia in the novel also bringing to light segregation in other parts of the world. She comes right out to say that the world is a racist world, with this novel and she writes to show others what is happening and that it is actually not right. And she does so in a great way by highlighting one great injustice rather than the many and bringing to a realization how irrational and unfair the entire American Justice system was. But we also see a development in the white characters which a representative of the entire America in a sense (and the world) as thoughts and ideas change and people’s views about coloured people change, not abruptly but slow of course. The black characters in To Kill A Mockingbird contribute to the development of the white characters rather than appearing as individuals in their own right. Racism is learnt, and with this we can see that Racism can

In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, characters are used to demonstrate the misjudgement by others in society. Arthur “Boo” Radley is thought of in a very dimensional and untrue way by the children. Dolphus Raymond makes unnoticed compromises in order to live in the community which he does not fit in. Tom Robinson is a kind and humble African American, who is misjudged by society due to the colour of his skin. Lee uses characterisation to show readers how society judges others.

Understanding others can be difficult depending on how you are raised. Unfortunately not everyone is understanding of others. This is a lesson Scout is taught through most of the book, To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout this novel Scout changes from curious to understanding, due to learning that you don’t truly know a man will you walk in their shoes.

Through rumors and ignorance, lives, careers, and relationships are ruined. Scout Finch, the younger sister of Jem and the daughter of Atticus, is morbidly curious. She wants nothing more than to get to see her neighbor, Boo Radley, and wants to be included, even though she is young and a lady. She tends to take everything she ever hears as the truth, no matter how much it is a lie. To Kill a Mockingbird covers many serious topics, such as growing up, racism, courage, and even rape, but it addresses rumors in a unique way. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird covers the effect of a rumor, through “Boo” Radley, segregation, and even the Finch family, she proves that a rumor is nothing more than the words of someone too lazy to seek out the truth.

The way that Dill is being characterized in the excerpt above is that at first scout thinks that he is strange or unusual as is shown by her calling him a curiosity, the line from the excerpt above that establishes this is as follows “Dill was a curiosity.” Another couple of words that could best be used to describe Dill are the words outlandish anomaly, the word outlandish has a denotative definition of looking or sounding bizarre or unfamiliar, and anomaly has a denotative definition of something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected. Thus, someone who is an outlandish anomaly means some one who that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected and looks bizarre or unfamiliar in some way or stated differently a curiosity,

In To Kill a Mockingbird, author Harper Lee uses unforgettable characters to explore civil rights and racism in the segregated southern United States in the 1930s. Atticus Finch, who is an attorney tries to prove that Tom Robinson, a black man, is innocent of a crime. Boo Radley is a neighbor who saves Scout and her brother Jem’s lives. The values the book promotes, the traits its characters demonstrate and the relevant themes it portrays, and the feelings it evokes in readers prove that To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is the book worth saving. There are many morals promoted in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, such as empathy.

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them." (31.55). Dill was also very sad about the tom Robinson case about how he supposedly abused and raped mayella ewell when he did not. later when tom robinson was accused of raping and abusing mayella ewell he cried alot he was very bummed out it. Dill is a very nice,caring,insecure,inquisitive kid in my opinion dill is the best character of the book it also showed a lot of caring when he cried about how tom Robinson was accused of rape and abusing dill is the best character of the

By gently trying 'to make him come out...to see what he looks like”' (Lee 11) we are introduced to Dill's inherent curiosity, now turned on the Boo Radley. Because the boy is either too scared or too loyal to his friends, he feels the need to drag them into his small mission, perhaps cracking his façade of fearlessness. He eventually does. Boo Radley is possibly the secondary keystone character of the novel, next to Tom Robinson; the title, To Kill A Mockingbird, plays into one of the lessons the children learn, to never shoot at mockingbirds, innocents who never bother anybody but instead make beautiful music (Lee 94). When Radley discovers the children's concerns and attempts to draw him out of his 'loneliness', he leaves gifts for them in the hole of a tree. In the novel's conclusion, he rescues Jem and Scout from the vengeful Bob Ewell, who himself dies in his attempt to murder them. Without Dill to have incited a caring interest within the children, Boo would not have also realized that there is more to being part of a community than the social ties that bind one

Jonathan Hayase Katie Hillary Le Awesome English Class 9 September 2014 To Kill a Mockingbird One of the most important properties of To Kill a Mockingbird is its format as a novel, instead of a work of nonfiction. To Kill a Mockingbird was not written for amusement; that is just a side effect of its purpose. Stories are both easier to read and more memorable, allowing Harper Lee's point to reach far more people than an airtight legal treatise would have. [...] One way Harper Lee accomplishes her goal is to make every character contribute to her theme. For example, Dill, one of Scout’s friends who comes to Maycomb every summer, serves as an outside perspective on the events in the story.

As he was new and unfamiliar to Maycomb’s ways, he was able to provide us an opportunity to connect deeper within the novel through his experiences. His appearance in the novel not only excites the readers but also Scout, as she said, “...but most of all, summer was Dill” (45). Dill was observant and imaginative; his childhood innocence brought adventure into the children’s lives. Not only did he lie and exaggerate everything, he also had fanciful imagination that never failed to disappoint them. “‘Dill Harris could tell the biggest ones I ever heard.

The rambunctious young boy Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, represents the classic youthful southern male. He is full of life and always ready to take on the next adventure summer time has to offer. Dill is never one to shy away from excitement. You meet Dill early on in the book, and it doesn’t take long before you have fallen in love with this spunky character. He is always leading Jem and Scout into some kind of mischief, Dill doesn’t mean to get himself in these situations, but if you possessed the amount of curiosity that he has you would find it quite difficult to stay out of trouble. With Dill’s imagination, curiosity, and love for others, he is bound to take you on the thrill of your lifetime.