The Scottsboro Boys Of The North By Harper Lee

According to American history, prejudice is shown through the courtroom’s jury when making decisions to send the alleged African Americans to jail. On March 24, 1931, nine African American lives were jeopardized with the false accusations of rape that further scrutinizes the nation’s controversial look upon justice. Referring to Abigail Thernson and Henry Fetter when talking about The Scottsboro Trials it states, “Represented by unprepared out of date counsel who had no more than a half an hour consult

Can you stand the sight of innocent people getting hurt everyday? In wars, bomb blasts, or even in local or personal issues. They are innocent people who do nothing but help us or they just don 't bother us, just like a mockingbird.…………………………. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Boo Radley and Tom Robinson could both be the symbolic “mockingbird”.

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.

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

In 1906, Ed Johnson was convicted after witnesses claimed he sexually assaulted white female by using a leather strap. Although Johnson provided numerous alibis about his part in the sexual assault, he was still convicted for the crime and sentenced to death by a jury of only white people. While in jail, Johnson was brutally murdered by a mob that broke in. Twenty-five years later, the Scottsboro Boys were convicted for gang rape of two white women while traveling on a train. Of the nine Scottsboro boys accused in this case, eight of them were sentenced to death. This conviction raised public awareness and was one factor that saw the birth of the Civil Rights Movement. Just a few years later, three African American men, Ed Brown, Arthur Ellington and Henry Shields were all beaten and tortured into confessing for the killing of a white farmer in Mississippi. This incident became the well known Supreme Court decision titled Brown v. Mississippi (Grimsley). These were just average African American men living average lives when suddenly they are accused of crimes they did not commit. Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery says in their journal that “many of them were at least twenty six years old when incarcerated whereas, some were sent to prison while they were still in their late teens and early 20s.” Before they were incarcerated, many of them were still getting their education and building careers and relationships. While these men were accused of their crimes based on their race, there are other factors that play a role in a wrongful conviction.

Backtracking years, even decades, one will find the origin of Boo Radley’s knack for violence. It started when he was just a teenager. Fitting in with the wrong crowd, he befriended the Cunninghams. The closest thing to a gang Maycomb ever had, they went around causing, not too much mayhem at first, but soon became more and more violent. The first serious offense they committed was locking poor old Mr. Conner, Maycomb’s beadle, in the courthouse outhouse after they resisted arrest. Now one might be thinking, Oh, that was a long time ago. Boo’s changed. Well, he hasn’t. He’s only become worse since then. Not even thirteen years ago, the town saw Boo for the first time in fifteen years, when he drove a pair of scissors into his father’s leg. Every single person in the town knows the truth; Boo Radley is lethal. This is proof that he has kept his violent nature over the years, perhaps practicing for when a racist pig of a man attacks two children. That is, two children he has been stalking.

That is when they took Boo home and locked him up in his own house. Some fifteen years later some neighbor saw a horrible deed. She saw Boo sitting in the living room just cutting up some magazines and when Mr. Radly walk in Boo took the scissors and stabbed him in the leg. Soon after Mrs. Radley came running out screaming, and police did not want to send the boy in jail, so he sent the boy to the room under the courthouse. He was taken back in his house some time later, but that was only when the court said he die from mold. It also did not help that the Radleys where a closed off and strange family in general in Maycomb. The family did not go to church and had there curtains pulled over the windows on Sunday too. Mr. Radly only came out to ‘work’ and buy what was need and Mrs. Radley was almost never seen, and they were just closed off and no one tried to get close. I also do not think they will meet Boo because Jem and Scout are scared of him. There is the rumor of what he looks like and that just sends chills done their bones. After all the kids thought he “was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrel and any cats he could catch, that’s why his

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

In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird the town of Maycomb is full of ignorance and gossip. In chapter 4, the game that the kids play called Boo Radley is full of false and ignorant ideas about the Radley household that have been spread around town by adults. Since kids have impressionable minds, they all believe the rumors which allows them to continue spreading them. People often times want to believe a rumor or gossip over the truth because the truth isn’t as entertaining, they get caught in this twisted fantasy of somebody else’s life. Without the rumors of Boo Radley, the town would relatively have nothing interesting it seems as the Radley household seems to be the one thing everyone talks about. This suggests Maycomb might be a rather

Furthermore, the Bradley’s are an introverted family and are not like the social people of Maycomb. The book states, “The shutters and doors of the Radley house were closed on Sundays, another thing alien to the Maycomb ways” (Lee 11). This quote explains that the Radleys’s never come out of their house and the reader may infer Boo Radley is locked up because it is odd to never to come out of

Some people say Boo Radley is scary or creepy, but people only think that because people in maycomb tell stories or rumors about him. “ Miss Stephanie Crawford said she woke up in the middle of the night one time and saw him looking straight through the window at her.” People tell stories and rumors that this one to make him sound scary.

“Maycomb County had recently been told it had nothing to fear but fear itself.” This fictional town in Alabama seems to be nothing but a tired, old, slow town. Beneath the surface it has many underlying secrets. One specific rumor that has been flying through the town for many years is about a young man named Boo Radley. Within the first eight chapters of this book Boo has been categorized as a villain.

Boo Radley, also known as Arthur Radley, spends his days inside of his house. This is different from the other people living in Maycomb, and leads to the other citizens starting rumors about him. The first summer Dill is visiting Maycomb, Jem tells Dill the rumors surrounding Arthur Radley, such as “he dines on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch” (13). Arthur’s habit of staying inside is seen as a negative attribute to the rest of the people in Maycomb, so they assume that he can’t be normal. This unfair treatment spreads even to the children who have never seen Arthur and leads to them assuming that he is as evil as everyone says.

(1)There are many things people fear but more often than not its comes to misunderstanding or the unwillingness to learn And in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the character Boo or Arthur Radley is a great example of this.(2) Boo Radley is a NEET so as such he stays inside his home without leave, as such the children are naturally intrigued and afraid of him due to his mysterious nature.(3) As the story progressed Boo is generally described in a negative manner, the people in the town usually only talk of the negative things he may have done, as such the children create this fantastical image of him an image of fear curiosity and pity.(4) The descriptions the children give of Boo are so extreme that they make him nearly inhuman "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.

The Radley’s had always been peculiar. Although it seems as they had lived there forever, they were seldom seen. They lived in a sad house with rotting shingles, which is where they spent most of their time. The town shunned them for their abnormality. Boo Radley, one of the sons, was especially distrusted. He had gotten involved with some of the Cunninghams from Old Sarum, which was almost a proper gang. When all members of the tribe stole a flivver and locked Mr. Connor, Maycomb 's’ ancient beadle, in the courthouse outhouse, the town decided enough was enough. They were to be put before the probate judge, who decided that they were to be put into the state industrial school. Although that wasn 't really that harsh of a