The Innocent By Harper Lee

Boo is a very important character in the book, in fact, the novel opens with Scout and her interactions with Boo and is closed by it too. Scout learns about Boo though the gossip passed on through neighbors in the community. The stories are scary and many out of context, however, Scout doesn’t seem to notice this till after the trial. At the beginning of the book she plays a game that involves Boo, and she tries to torment him into coming out. When Scout describes Boo Radley she says, "People said 'Boo' Radley went out at night and peeped in people’s windows. That he breathed on flowers and they froze instantly. They said he committed little crimes in the night but not one ever saw him." This shows that Scout sees Boo as an object of fascination instead of a human being. She does not acknowledge that he has emotions or feelings, she just views him as a monster who does horrible things to people. Furthermore, we can learn that Boo is not a very loved or respected figure in the community due to his strange way of living. As the trial takes place Scout matures and her level of complex thinking increases, but it is not until October 24th that we see how her perception of Boo changes since in the trial she saw how badly they treated Tom Robinson and she directly connected it to Boo “I hugged him and said, “Yes, sir. Mr. Tate was right, it’d be sort of

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.

Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” is set in a small, southern town, Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The story is told through the eyes of a girl named Scout about her father, Atticus, an attorney who strives to prove the innocence of a black man named Tom Robinson, who was accused of rape and Boo Radley, an enigmatic neighbor who saves Scout and her brother Jem from being killed. Atticus does his job in proving there was no way that Tom Robinson was guilty during his trial, but despite Tom Robinson’s obvious innocence, he is convicted of rape as it is his word against a white woman’s. Believing a “black man’s word” seemed absurd as segregation was a very integrated part of life in the south. The social hierarchy must be maintained at all costs and if something in the system should testify the innocence of a black man against a white woman’s word and win then what might happen next? Along with the prejudice amongst blacks and whites, the story also showed how people could be misunderstood for who they truly are such as Boo Radley. Without ever seeing Boo, Jem and the townsfolk made wild assumptions on what Boo does or looks like. Even so, while “To Kill a Mockingbird” shows the ugliness that can come from judging others, its ultimate message is that great good can result when one defers judgement until considering things from another person’s view. Walter Cunningham, Mrs. Dubose, and Boo Radley are all examples of how looking at things

The unexpected rise of hate crimes has surged to a point American citizens can hardly believe. To Kill A Mockingbird is a prominent and well know example of the racist, uncensored, and ugly side of American history. Ironically, plots including situations such as police brutality and racially-motivated crimes are as current in the novel as they are today. Crime against minorities is rising, and the future and safety of many is threatening.

In conclusion, the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee has many examples of cruelty in the world, as shown by the characters Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Dolphus Raymond. Boo Radley’s case is more general, throughout the entire world. Because of the cruelty he sees, he decides to stay inside his house, not because he’s forced to, which is common belief in the neighborhood. Tom Robinson’s case is towards black

Throughout the book To Kill A Mockingbird Lee discusses the effects of ignorance and the toll it takes on people such as Tom Robinson, Boo Radley, Scout herself, and many more. Through her examples of sexism, prejudice, and racism, from the populist of poverty stricken Southerners, she shows the readers the injustice of many. The victims of ignorance are the ‘mockingbirds’ of the story. A good example of this injustice is the trial of Tom Robinson, who is falsely accused of raping a white girl and is found guilty. The book is from the point of view Scout, a child, who has an advantage over most kids due to her having a lawyer as a dad, to see the other side of the story. Her father tells her in the story, “you never really know a man until

The African Americans and Arthur “Boo” Radley were harshly put down for their differences from others.Tom Robinson was one of the main characters recognized as a mockingbird because he was killed by a blue jay “Mr.Underwood.”Mockingbirds deserve to be protected representing the background of why Atticus took on the Tom Robinson case.Anyone who tries to hurt them is committing a sin because these kind-hearted people have done nothing but make the world a better place for those around them.

Tom Robinson, an innocent man was shot in prison after he was wrongly convicted and falsely accused in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. This action, along with others is found commonly throughout the book as defenceless characters get hurt and wrongly judged despite their innocent persona. Along with Tom Robinson other characters suffer too, people such as Boo Radley and Atticus Finch suffer from the cruel world around them. In the surrounding chaos, those few characters manage to preserve their innocent nature.

The theme of prejudice in To Kill a Mockingbird broadens to a further extent than just the situation of racial discrepancy between the blacks and the whites. Although, the racial discrimination mainly towards the blacks is the most prominent occurrence of injustice at Harper Lee’s time- the early Twentieth century, the whole novel includes several, other forms of prejudice that portray the unfavourable effects that was endured by innocent people. These blameless individuals were referred to mockingbirds, since it was a sin to kill one as said by Atticus, “Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” So, therefore mockingbirds are a representation of the main events that occurred

Throughout the book, a number of characters can be identified as mockingbirds, innocents who have been injured or destroyed through contact with evil. One of these characters is Tom Robinson, a black man who is shot when attempting to escape jail. He was falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell by her father, a white man, Bob Ewell. Bob was trying to give him and his family a better reputation by imprisoning a “filthy nigger.” Because of the prejudice of the court in Maycomb, Robinson was found guilty for a crime he never committed. He was sent to jail and was shot, no less than ___

Imagine an innocent person in the throes of death or facing harm that they do not deserve. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, innocent people face the consequences of other’s actions and get hurt, or almost hurt. This novel is narrated by Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, as she tells of her childhood and two specific events that occur as she grows. In first event, Scout, her brother Jem, and their friend Dill begin to have an interest in the minutiae of the life of Arthur “Boo” Radley, their mysterious neighbor. The other event includes how her hometown creates allegations against an innocent colored man, Tom Robinson, who was accused of raping Mayella Ewell, a young white woman. In this novel, a mockingbird is considered a creature that it

Author Gennita Low once said, “A new life is innocent, like an empty page, ready for the hard lessons ahead” (Low). This overlying message can often be seen in many pieces of media created throughout the 20th century. Two chief examples include director Godfrey Reggio’s documentary Powaqqatsi (1988) as well as Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, written in 1960; To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of a little girl named Jean Louise (Scout) Finch who, over the course of the book, helps to confront the problem of deeply-rooted prejudice in a close-knit southern town in Alabama. Powaqqatsi, on the other hand, draws attention to the conflicts arising in Emerging countries between their older, more traditional ways of life, and the new ways of life introduced to them through industrialization and spread of Western culture. When looking at the archetypal idea of coming of age, both of these forms of media help present-day audiences understand how adolescents grow and develop. This leads one to ask, what exactly are contributing factors that could make adults and children begin to lose this childhood innocence?

In the novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, there are details within the text that sublimely expound upon the theme of killing innocence, or a mockingbird. For example, when Scout describes the dialogue before the trial, “ … she [Miss Gates] was talking … heard her say that it’s about time someone them a lesson, they were gettin’ [sic] above themselves …” (Lee 283). This expresses how many people were biased and hateful towards Tom Robinson, despite his innocence. The fact that one would be willing for an honest man to suffer, which exists in their actions because of their racial bias and hatred, represents the unfairness of his situation, and how an innocent is destined to be ‘shot’ by the ‘hunter’. In addition, when the Ewells’ treatment of Helen

The innocent always have and always will be brought to their knees by those in power; they are destined to a life of suffering. Persecution of the virtuous, a common occurrence in history, is still alive and well in our modern era. Muslims are assaulted by Islamophobes who assume they are dangerous simply because they share the religion of a terrorist group. Countless, innocent black people have been murdered by police for minor crimes a white person would not have been looked twice at for, or become victims of police brutality for committing no crime at all other than suspicion by the color of their skin. Transgender individuals carry the highest suicide rate of any demographic, and gay people are still being fired from their jobs or denied service at restaurants.These people show a modern example of the motif of mockingbirds in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The book takes place in Maycomb county in rural Alabama during the Great Depression, a time when lynching black men for false crimes was common. One of these men, Tom Robinson, is accused of rape by Mayella Ewell and is to be defended by Atticus Finch in the trial. Lee expresses how it is wrong to harm those who did nothing to bother others, or mockingbirds, using the characters of Boo Radley, Mayella, and Tom, showing how hypocritical and warped many of Maycomb’s citizens are, as they will call shooting a mockingbird a sin, but not how they have doomed their own mockingbirds to a living hell.

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