Who Is Miss Maudie's Death In To Kill A Mockingbird

Not only is Atticus brave, but he is also strong. Atticus demonstrates his strength when he helps move furniture out of Miss Maudie’s house during the fire. Atticus wakes up Jem and Scout and tells them to stand along the street. Men fill the street, and the old Maycomb fire truck is being pushed by a group of men. As the fire is being extinguished, men are moving furniture out of Miss Maudie’s house. Atticus brings out Miss Maudie’s rocking chair, her most valued piece of furniture. Mr. Avery is upstairs throwing down furniture. Before the stairs give out, Mr. Avery squeezes through the window and slides down a pillar. The fire is growing, and it is making its way to the roof. A second fire truck has come to help extinguish the fire. Miss Rachel’s house has caught on fire. A third fire truck appears. Miss Maudie’s house then collapses, and men scramble to get the fire out. Dawn comes, and everyone goes home. Likewise, Atticus reveals his respectfulness when he does not retaliate when Bob Ewell threatens him. Atticus is coming home from the post office when Bob Ewell approaches him. Ewell begins to curse, spit, and threaten Atticus. Standing contently, Atticus does not try to even the score by retaliating. He takes out a napkin to wipe his face. Ewell proceeds to curse

Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley is also very courageous throughout the novel. Boo contacts the children and gifts them items, wraps Scout in a blanket at Miss Maudie’s house fire, and rescues Jem and Scout from Bob

1. The tiny, sleepy, worn-out, dingy, slow-moving town of Maycomb, Alabama is where the novel takes place. The novel takes place in the early 1930s, during the Great Depression.

In part one of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader is introduced to Scout, the narrator of the book, her family and other members of the community in which she lives. Scout and her older brother Jem are the children of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. Scout and Jem meet Dill, a boy spending the summer with his Aunt Rachel. He is between Scout and Jem’s age and becomes a great friend and playmate. He, like Scout and Jem are enjoying the freedom of no school, using their imagination inventing, and playing games throughout the summer. Next door to Scout and Jem, lives a very curious individual whom they have never seen but heard rumors about. This individual has been kept isolated by his father because of some innocent pranks he was involved in over fifteen years ago. Arthur “Boo” Radley is a young man rumored to be root of all evil in the small town of Maycomb. Curiosity is a theme repeated throughout part one as the Scout, Jem, and Dill desire to know or learn more about life and Boo Radley.

While walking home from school one day the children happen to find two pieces of gum hidden in the knot-hole of a tree on the Radley yard. These treasures, the children soon come to realize, can only be from the elusive man himself Boo Radley. Soon enough the children find even more gifts from Boo such as a small box with Indian-head coins, a ball of twine, a boy and girl carved soap figures, a whole pack of gum this time, a spelling medal, and their most cherished treasure, a pocket watch. This knot hole was the only connection between Boo and the children until the hole was clogged up by Boo’s brother Nathan, but because of that Hole Scout and Jem began to see Boo just a little differently from the way they saw him before. Something that also helped Scouts understanding of Boo began to change was during the fire of Miss maudie’s house. While Jem and Scout watched the events unfold from a safe distance a very unusual thing occurred. Scout while watching the fire did not seem to notice that a blanket that she had not come out with was wrapped around her shoulders. After her father Atticus pointed this out he also mentioned that this was the work of Boo Radley who, like the rest of the neighborhood came out to watch the

To Kill a Mockingbird is a book that shows both moral and physical courage throughout the book. The narrator, Scout, is a six year old girl who lives with her brother Jem and dad, Atticus Finch, who is a lawyer in Maycomb County, who is chosen to defend a black man who is accused of raping Mayella Ewell the daughter of Tom Ewell. Scout and Jem have a best friend named Dill who visits every summer. They are always daring each other to Boo Radley’s house. Boo Radley is a mysterious man, who never comes out of his house, and in the end is the

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

Daniel H. Pink once said, “Empathy is about standing in someone else’s shoes, feeling with his or her heart, seeing with his or her eye. Not only is empathy hard to outsource and automate but it makes the world a better place”. This quote is explaining the basics of empathy. Empathy is seeing a problem or life in general, from another person’s of view. It allows us to understand another and overall helps make the world a better place.

“He was carrying Jem. Jem’s arm was dangling crazily in front of him. By the time I reached to corner the man was crossing our front yard. Light from our front door framed Atticus for a instant; he ran down the steps, and together, he and the man took Jem inside” (352). This is the pivotal moment, when Boo Radley saves Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell’s. When Bob was in the process of hurting a “mockingbird”, a face that very few have seen saves the kids. By the end of the book Scout makes a good connection with Boo but there will always be fear, ignorance, and

Scout described Atticus as being feeble, old, and boring. She talks about Atticus not doing any of the thing her classmates fathers do, such as playing poker, hunting, or drinking. One day in the winter Atticus surprises Jem and Scout changing their opinions of him. When a rabid dog was walking up the street towards their house Atticus shot and killed him. Scout had never seen her father shoot before and was shocked by his practiced ease.

Scout, Dill, and Jem watch many of their neighbors and people from further away ride horses and wagons downtown to watch the trial. Even a group of Mennonites, who Jem says rarely come to Maycomb, are going to watch. The foot-washing Baptists Miss Maudie know drive by on their way downtown, and criticize her gardening because it is not the work of God. The children ask Miss Maudie if she is going to watch the trial, and she says that she doesn’t think it’s right to watch a young man be on a trial that will surely end with him being sentenced to death.

This quote from To Kill a Mockingbird is pointing out that Miss Maudie thinks that everything happens for a reason. Miss Maudie thinks that Atticus is truly the only person in Maycomb that is fit for the job of defending Tom Robinson. I think that the quote “Atticus Finch won’t win, he can’t win, but he’s the only man in these parts who can keep a jury out so long in a case like that” (Lee 246) is saying that even though there is no way that Atticus will win this trial, only he would be able to make the Jury think about what was right and their decisions longer. This means that Atticus was put in this spot for a specific purpose, the purpose is to begin to change the views on blacks, even if nothing is happening yet. In

As Scout and Jem walk home from the pageant they got attacked by Mr. Ewell. They screamed for help and the only person that heard them was Arthur (Boo) Radley. So he ran out to rescue their lives. This is the first time Mr.Radley left his house and the first time Scout saw him. To most people it was a mystery how Mr. Radley looked. When he was at Scout’s house he went to the farthest corner and the people there acted as if Mr. Radley was invisible.

At the end of the novel, Scout has an epiphany after she meets Boo Radley. As she is standing on the Radley porch she begins to imagine her life events over the past year from Boo’s perspective. She suddenly

Scout Finches is a small town kid who lives with her brother, Jem, and father, Atticus, who is a lawyer in the town. In the novel Scout and Jem Finches gather with their summer friend Dill, carrying on small game and adventures, many of them involving “Boo Radley”. Radley is not very social