Benjamin Marmaras Miss Windish English II 15 March 2017 Making People into Ghosts There are many ways of making people ghosts. This is how Boo Radley is portrayed in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In the book Atticus says, “there were other ways [besides physical incarceration] of making people into ghosts” (Lee 14). The book takes place during the great depression in the south. It follows the story of three children as they try to get a look at the mysterious figure that has not been seen for fifteen years. All they know about him is from local gossip. He has been made into a ghost by the rest of his family because they want people to forget about him after he stabbed his father and got in trouble with the police. Sometimes this can …show more content…
They viewed his behavior as shameful and wish to make him into a ghost by keeping him in the house all the time. They want the population to forget about what he did fifteen years ago. This is what Atticus means when he says this. To make someone into a ghost they don’t have to be the supernatural kind. They can be people who have disappeared from society for a long time. This can be out of shame, their family or others forcing them to stay away from society. Boo Radley has been forced to stay inside his house or he wants to stay inside his house because of what happened all those years ago. He hasn't been seen in so long the general population treats him as a phantom that haunts the town. This is what Atticus means when he says this. This can be applicable in real life when someone messes up. If you mess up and you are shameful about what happened, you may lock yourself in your room for a while. This is in a attempt to forget about what happened. It is also a attempt by yourself to let others forget about you for a while so that when you go back out they forget about it. It is you trying to hide from your
The story is taking place in a prairie. The first line of pg. 47 declares that. The same page is talking about a storm might be coming. I guess, there is a ocean near the prairie. On pg. 48, I found that the prairie landscape is discomforting due to the fact that it seems alive. It also talks about the farmsteads are there to intensify the situation. That same page talking about putting fire. It is taking place during winter, and may be somewhere during December. I think, the time is during the Great Depression of 1930's. In pg. 51 we found that John's farm is under mortgage. The same page tells, He works hard too much to earn some dollars. From pg. 52, I also found, he does not appoint any helper. In pg. 52, Ann remembers about their good time as well. Now, they are not having that of a easy life. They are tired by the labour. These all quotations proves that, the setting of the story is in a hill during the great depression of 1930's.
This book left me with the impression that life in the south in 1906 maybe wasn’t as bad as it seemed. Even without all the modern technology there is today, people had fun in other ways. In a lot of ways life was better back then. But there was still some of the crime and injustice we still see today. Religion seems to be a big part of their everyday lives. I believe other’s should read this book if they want to relive life in the south, and watch how a young southern boy finally grows up.
Atticus views that it is his duty to do his best in the Tom Robinson trial and feels no
Atticus is a single father of two. He believes that no matter who he is defending, if that person is innocent, he deserves justice and he will try his best so justice will be served. '' ”If you shouldn't be defendin' him, then why are you doin' this?” “For a number of reasons. ”said
This book takes place in the southern part of the United States in the 1930s. Although Warren never reveals the true setting of this book, one can conclude that this took place in Louisiana seeing how Warren became inspired in that state by a person who is mirrored in this very book. Part of this novel is in Mason City. Another place in this novel is Burden’s Landing Jack , the main character, goes there many times because this is his hometown.
Boo Radley at this point in the story shifts from a scary phantom to a pitiable man. Dill 's understanding is also shown off at this point in the story.
Atticus must live with himself before he can live with others. In the novel, Atticus even says, "Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." This clearly illustrates how Atticus must do what he thinks is right, because he can only live for himself and not others. Atticus demonstrates this when he refuses to treat African Americans with disrespect, as many other people in Maycomb do.
Some might say that Atticus is putting him and his family in danger.Someone in the mob said,”You know what we want...Get aside from the door” (202). That proves that the mob meant businses and that they were will to “get rid” of Atticus if needed. But,lucky Scout jumped in and saved his life before his life needed saving. Even if Atticus did not have Scout to save him, he would have reasoned with the mob and brought them back to their senses.
Have you ever wondered why people see things differently from other or why they think the way they do? Harper Lee, the author of to Kill a Mocking Bird, once said, “you will never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside his his skin and walk around in it.” I believe what Lee had said is entirely true. People won’t ever fully understand what someone is going through without actually being them. Seeing through other people perspective gives us some understanding of a certain situation and helps us realize all parts of the story. When you change the way you look at thing the things you look at change.
In the beginning of the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout Finch is a good-hearted, innocent five-year-old who has no experience with the evils of the world. However, throughout the novel, Scout has her first contact with the evils of the world in the form of prejudice. Arthur “Boo” Radley — one of the two cases — is a harmless human-being who falls victim to this evilness. Regarded as an evil person, Boo is the “ghost” of Maycomb and is used as the scapegoat for anything bad which happens. However, growing up in the house of Atticus Finch, Scout learns that humanity is evil at times, but there is also a lot of good humanity has to offer. Not only is there good, but what may seem evil at the time, if approached with an outlook
When most people were against him and are trying to convince him not to, Atticus was determined to continue defending Tom Robinson (an African American who was accused of raping a white lady name Mayella Ewell - Mr. Ewell's daughter). (Make it active voice ?) Due to his good morals, Atticus felt like he needs to help Tom Robinson “This case, Tom Robinson’s case, is something that goes to the essence of a man’s conscience --- Scout, I couldn’t go to church and worship God if I didn’t try to help that man” (108). As addressed in To Kill a Mockingbird, Jim Crow laws manipulated individuals ethics to think that blaming African Americans is fine since all they do is not good (change the wordings). This type of discrimination made African American victims of jails and crimes that they did not even consider doing but were thought of doing because of racial segregation enforcement (popularity?) within the Southern society of the US. However, Atticus was different and believed that Tom robinson is innocent since he understood (understands?) how people discriminate others and was aware (is aware) of different types of prejudice (in that time period). So, due to Atticus’ good morals and values, he was willing to try his best to support the truth (who was right or something) and help Tom Robinson which makes him a great parent because (he is a person of morals?) of his good morals and values (delete morals and values?). Atticus (atticus’s ?) belief (of noting using one’s power to hurt each other … ?) that people should not harm each other should be admired. For instance, Miss Maudie (Atticus neighbour) was confirming to Scout that what Atticus said about Mockingbirds is right “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They
One of the main symbols of the story is the setting. It takes place in a normal small town on a nice summer day. "The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full summer day; the flowers were blooming profusely and the grass was richly green." (Jackson 347).This tricks the reader into a disturbingly unaware state,
In the beginning of the book the Maya and Bailey moved to a place called Stamps. They moved in with their Grand mother. She owns the store in the middle of the black part of Stamps. During the cotton picking season their grandmother gets up at four in the morning to get the lunches to the people who pick the cotton. In chapter two the young girl falls in love with reading epically William Shakespeare. Then later momma (aka the grand mother) found out that a black man messed with white women and the white people were on a rampage. When people call Maya ugly her sister steps in and bags down on the people who are saying it.
The setting of the story is rather mysterious, yet tense. The story first begins in a haunted house where a mother by the name of Sethe , and her daughter Denver harbor the burden of the ghost called Beloved. The setting of the characters living in this home, gave the reader a supernatural feel from the beginning of the novel. From every flashback of Sethe’s life to the smallest bit of the life she once had, Toni Morrison throws the reader back into a puzzling moment which forces the reader to evaluate the roots of Sethe’s life .Each setting revealed something different about the main character Sethe .
takes place in the south, where at the time, slaves were newly emancipated and things are