To Kill A Mockingbird In To Kill A Mockingbird

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

Set in the town of Maycomb County, this novel describes the journey of two young kids growing up in a small-minded town, learning about the importance of innocence and the judgement that occurs within. The individuals of Maycomb are very similar, with the exception of Arthur “Boo” Radley, the town’s recluse. Boo Radley has never been seen outside, and as a result of this, the children in the town are frightened of him and make up rumors about the monstrous things he allegedly does. This leaves the individuals in the town curious as to if Boo Radley really is a “malevolent phantom” like everyone assumes that he is or if he is just misunderstood and harmless. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Boo Radley is a saviour. This is

Boo Radley is a ‘malevolent phantom’ and a character that has been shaped by gossips and sustained by children’s imaginations. “Stephanie Crawford, a neighbourhood scold… said she woke up in the middle of the night and saw him looking straight through the window at her.” This dialogue is an example of the gossips and how the legend of Boo Radley developed, lies that persecute his innocence. Setting is used to develop Boo’s surroundings and to summon an eerie atmosphere giving Maycomb reason enough to reject and victimise him for being different. “…rain rotten shingles drooped… oak trees kept the sun away and the remains of a picket fence drunkenly guarded the front yard.” The Radley house has been established as a neglected, out of place and isolated home through Harper Lee’s use of connotative words. This evokes within the reader the same view of Boo as the rest of the town and allows us to understand where the misunderstanding comes from before we

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.

White or colored, superior or inferior, and important or invisible are the different categories society imposes on people. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the narrator Scout is a part of the Finch family. They are white people with good morals due to Atticus Finch, Scout’s father. He guides his children to seek equality and treat others equally regardless of their class, gender, or race. Atticus tries to enforce his beliefs by taking on the Tom Robinson case. Tom Robinson is an honest, hard working black man accused of raping a white woman known as Mayella Ewell. Although there was evidence to prove his innocence, Mayella’s dirty lies were placed above his innocence. This situation is clearly an example of the ideals society

Arthur “Boo” Radley is a man who was involved in a gang when he was young. Now he is seen as an insane and murderous person by the town. People rumor him to walk around at night and peer in people's windows and eat squirrels and cats.

3. One word describing Scout Finch is intelligent. Although, all of her first-grade class is illiterate, Scout is capable of reading books past Ms. Caroline’s expectations. “I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me anymore, it would interfere with my reading.” (Page 22, Paragraph 4)

William Shakespeare once said, "For courage mounteth with occasion." William Shakespeare is portraying that courage comes when it is needed most. Shakespeare also displays that courage makes up for the strength that is absent in arduous situations. I agree with Shakespeare's message he is conveying in entirety. In the novels, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, the courageous acts are like one lone star lighting up the entire night sky.

One way to measure power is to consider the amount of control a person has over his or her own life as well as the lives of others. Tom Robinson is an African American and has been wrongly accused of raping a poor, white woman, Mayella Ewell. Mayella says Tom attacked her and “took advantage” of her. Tom says Mayella asked him to help her with some chores, and was trying to hug and kiss him when her father appeared at the window. In To Kill A Mockingbird Mayella’s power is measured in class, gender, and race.

Atticus Hill cherished and fostered his role as the bad boy in the family. He always dressed in all black, rode a Harley, and had long, shaggy black hair. But now that all his brothers had found their Mr. Right he thought maybe, at age thirty-nine, it was time to look around for a partner. He thought the drummer at the gay bar was sexy, so headed off there to check him out.

What does it mean to have power or to be powerful.The book to kill a Mockingbird a white

Race, gender and class have always been the key points of discrimination, it didn’t matter if you were white or a male, if you were in the lower class despite those categories you were treated poorly. That was the case for Mayella Ewell, A white female in the lowest class of her society. In the text Class, Gender and Race in; “To Kill a Mockingbird” is Mayella Ewell powerful? After reading the text, it was concluded that Mayella Ewell is in fact powerful. There are three divisions in this society.

In To Kill a Mockingbird many characters misunderstood by the town of Maycomb. One character especially is Arthur Boo Radley. The town of Maycomb lacks understanding toward Boo, as the town gossips and creates rumors about him and as they judge him because he’s different from their idea of how one should conduct their life

Mr Radley was ashamed of his son’s behaviour when he got into the wrong crowd as a youngster and punished him by locking him up. There is a lot of gossip around Maycomb about Boo and people blame him for any bad things that happen in the neighbourhood, ‘Any stealthy crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.’ Jem turns him into a monster, ‘his hands were blood-stained’, and ‘his eyes popped’. At the end of the novel however, we find that Boo is misunderstood, and gossip of the town’s folk has made him up to be a ‘malevolent phantom’. Scout tells us he is timid, he had, ‘the voice of a child afraid of the dark’.

In the story, Boo Radley is a symbol of the mockingbird. The mockingbird means Boo is innocent though you believe that he is guilty. He is also the moral voice of the story. Everyone in Maycomb believed the Radley’s were different. The people of Maycomb tried to avoid the Radley’s at all cost.