To Kill A Mockingbird Character Analysis

Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.”

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is an exceedingly powerful novel. It includes many significant minor themes such as racism and hatred which leave the reader to have grown more attentive to the past once they complete the book. The book takes place in Maycomb County Alabama during the great depression. During this period there was a great deal of hate and prejudice towards people of color, in addition to a great regard to social class. The novels protagonists, Atticus Finch a well-respected lawyer and his children Jeremy “Jem” Finch and Jean Louise “Scout” Finch are a few of the towns occupants who respect others regardless of social class or race. For this reason, Atticus has no objections

Firstly, Lee utilizes Boo Radley’s character to express the ignorance the town has towards him and how it instills fear. The name, Boo was created from the interpretation of him being a scary individual. Towards the beginning of the novel, the narrator introduced Boo as “a malevolent phantom”(Lee 10). The town, Maycomb, had a bias against him which resulted in him being framed as an antagonist for a single wrongdoing. He may have a mental issue, but the townspeople are ignorant, they frame him up as an antagonist since he proceeded with one incorrect action. As the novel continues onwards

To Kill a Mockingbird, author Harper Lee uses unhypocritical, more experienced characters like Atticus to expose Jem and Scout to adult knowledge. Their adult influence is what brings about the empathetic growth and maturity of Jem and Scout.

“She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man” (page 272). It is easy to interpret this character as a villian in To Kill a Mockingbird, but is she honestly a victim? This girl has grown up in poverty, has been beaten, and has had to take care of an entire household. Unfortunately, there is nothing that can be done to change that. She lives a painful lifestyle, and that lifestyle has transformed her into the person she will always be. Mayella Violet Ewell’s important character attributes, mistreated, skeptical, and melodramatic, have forged her into the villain that most people see.

The character revelation and development of Boo Radley throughout the book is the most distinguished representation of this. In the beginning of the novel Jem describes Boo as a huge cat-and-squirrel-eating monster, based on what he had heard from the other townspeople; yet, as time goes on, Scout and Jem both realize that what they had previously believed was wrong. One of the first revelations of Boo’s true nature happens in chapter 7, when he mends Jem’s pants that he tore climbing over the fence. This shows that Boo cares for the children and wants to help them, directly going against the rumors people were spreading about him. Finally, the ultimate show of his character happens when he saves the children from Bob Ewells’ attack. As Scout walks Boo home afterwards, she belatedly sees him as a human rather than as a monster, addressing him as Mr. Arthur instead of Boo. With both Boo and Tom, prejudice blocked the townspeople from seeing the truth of who they were. Through To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee attempts to expose the ugly truth of prejudice in our society; forcing readers to confront the flaws of their own

Boo Radley is considered one of the minor characters that stands by the theme of the novel. To explain the mysterious character Scout says,“ inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but jem and I had never seen him... Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people’s chickens and household pets were found mutilated: although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually downed himself in Barker’s Eddy, people still looked at the radley place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions”(Lee pg). In the town of Maycomb people are quick to judge and fast to make rumors, Boo was described as psycho and typical recluse. The Scout finally gets to see his true nature in the very last chapter when she finally meets Boo, she stands on his porch reflecting on all of the events

Can you recollect a person that you hate all the time? Is this person rude, not sociable, emotionally abusive, or just plain racist? In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the novel digs deep into the roots of Social Classes. One of these classes, in particular, is “White Trash.” “White Trash” is a class that has the poor white people that don’t contribute much to society and sometimes even make the society worse. There is one character that everyone loathes in Maycomb, and he is Mr. Ewell. Harper Lee portrays Mr. Ewell and his kids as uneducated, racist, murderous pigs because of three reasons. This family disrespects other members of the community in cruel ways, abuses their power by accusing a black man of rape, and tries to kill two

“The ability to do something that frightens one.” This quotation shows that to have courage isn’t always when you are being brave but when you finish something that you start. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” By Harper Lee,  Many characters show the trait of courage throughout the book. It also shows many important parts of the book through these quotes that are shown. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee Atticus shows the trait of courage a lot in the book.  The next two quotes are ones that show that Jen is a person in the novel that shows the trait of courage when he tried to find boo.  these quotes are ones that show that Dill has courage because he travelled by himself and because he he is a daredevil. In my three

How would the novel be different if it were narrated from a different character’s perspective? Jem? Atticus? Calpurnia? Boo? What benefit does a child narrator provide?

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience,” (Lee 120). This quote from To Kill a Mockingbird is a good representation of the book. The book is set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. Jean Louise (Scout) Finch, narrates the story of herself and her family facing the racial prejudices of the time. When her father Atticus, defends an innocent black man in a rape trial, Maycomb turns on Scout's family. Atticus, Scout, and her brother Jem stand up for what they believe in even if their neighbors disagree. By analyzing Harper Lee’s use of symbolism and tone, the reader can learn that courage isn’t physical strength, you gain morals as you grow, and prejudice kills innocence.

In her coming-of-age novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee, portrays the main character Jean Louise “Scout” Finch to reveal to the causes and effects of lies in the small southern town, Maycomb County. In Maycomb County, Alabama, the civilians of the town make “telling lies” a helpful thing to do. Most of the people who live in the town come up with lies to protect themselves and other, affecting the lives of innocents. This harmful and selfish act harms the town and its citizens in many ways. Through the use of characterization, rising actions, and falling actions, Lee portrays gossip spreading and telling lies have a big impact on the town, Maycomb.

Courage is an essential human quality. Facing fears against all odds is a feature in many novels. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is no exception. Many characters depicts the quality. Some in normal situations others, take on terrifying tasks in a unique and original way. Scout, Jem, Atticus, and Ms. Dubose show bravery in many areas of their lives, one character risks their careers, others have a situation that lacks massive consequences.

Children may be the path to better comprehending society. Having no inherent sense of evil, they may not truly understand bias or discrimination until they have matured. In To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, three young children in the modest southern of Maycomb are forced to witness people at their worst at an unspeakable time in American history. Maycomb’s orderly community is greatly disturbed for the better when Dill Harris, Jem Finch, and Scout Finch create chaos and instill change because of their childhood innocence.

As the story seems to winding down, Harper Lee reveals the mysterious character of Arthur “Boo” Radley, the Finch family’s eerie recluse neighbor. On the way home from a play one summer night, Scout and her brother, Jem, are attacked by the drunk Bob Ewell but are saved when Boo leaves his house to stab the perpetrator with a kitchen knife. Thanks to him, Scout gets away with minimal injury and Jem escapes with only a broken arm. Atticus invites Boo in to stay for a while for bringing his children home alive and Scout finds that Boo is a kind and quiet man after talking to him. Atticus and the sheriff agree to cover for Boo by saying that Bob fell on top of his own knife. I liked that the author did not leave Boo’s character only to be defined by the stories Scout and her friends made up about him as