Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, To Kill a Mockingbird was a beautifully written story. The
characters’ emotions and views sang a song to the reader that may ring in their ears every day of
their life. All the reader must do is listen. Scout, Bob Euwell, and Boo Radley are all characters
who grew over time based on the situations Harper Lee prepared for them. The reader, still
eagerly present, learns along with the characters, and starts to influence the reader’s future song.
Scout sings, from Lukas Graham’s Once I was Seven Years Old, “It was a big big world,
but we thought we were bigger/Pushing each other to the limits, we were learning quicker/
always had that dream like my daddy before me” She is basically stating that she wants to work
hard,
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and her youthful ego makes her think she is larger than she already is in a way that is childish and fantasy-like.
With all her innocence, she doesn’t realize that the world is harder than
she thought, and she must grow faster in the future as a lady, not a little girl that can put up an
immature war with bullies at her school.
Bob Euwell sings, from Maroon 5, Animals, “I'm preying on you tonight/Hunt you down
eat you alive/Just like animals” Jem and Scout almost met their demise after Bob Euwell comes
to confront them on a Halloween Night under a tree. Bob tried to take
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advantage of his opponent, Atticus Finch. Then, he stooped low, and attempted to avenge his
pride by slitting Scout’s back. Luckily, her costume saved her. But, Euwell acted like an
“animal” searching and hunting down his weak “prey”. An ultimate act of blind cowardice was
almost Jem and Scout’s end, and his unlucky demise.
Boo Radley sings, from Jon Bellion, I am a Robot, “...I had a fire, passion and
desire/Now all I require are circuits and wires/Inside was an ocean of soul and emotion/Then you
cut me open, now all that I know is/I am a robot, thoughtless and empty” Boo Radley’s parents
took away all of the things he lived for. Joy, pleasure, and potential. As a result, Boo Radley
became a sensitive shut-out. The aftermath of his parents also affected the way
people (especially kids) would look upon him. He had a childhood, and it was taken away, like he was just a lifeless robot. Little did his parents know he was much more than a lifeless child. Overall, the characters’ emotions and views sang a song to the reader that may ring in their ears every day of their life. All the reader must do is listen. Scout, Boo Radley, and Bob Euwell all had their essential roles in the story, To Kill a Mockingbird. Although it is necessary to express yourself out loud, some of these songs belong inside their minds. Some songs can teach, deceive, and even lie. It all depends on who is listening, and what they are listening for.
“He didn't forget his lunch, he didn't have any. He had none, nor would he have any tomorrow or the next day...that’s okay ma’am, you’ll get to know all the country folks after a while”(Lee, 26). Scout knows what people go through but does not show sympathy or compassion towards someone because of what they are going through. She looks at it like it is only normal that they are the way they are.
...acterizes him as a disturbing man, and at the end of the book he is a sympathetic person he has been all along. Then they finally see him for who he really is. Throughout Scout’s childhood, she had to undergo much more than a child her age would have to deal with, yet she never knew there was always one person there for her even when she didn’t notice him; Boo Radley. In society we have all these stereotypes that are supposed to represent us, and tell us who we are supposed to be. Yet, the only person who can tell us who we are is ourselves. What I’m trying to say is just because people see you as this specific label it doesn’t define who you are as a person. That’s what Scout realizes at the end of the book; that Boo wasn’t really who he was characterized as by the town of Maycomb, and now she knows the real struggles of life that many people have to go through.
Think you know Boo Radley? Not many people do. Boo Radley is a shy, mysterious character from Harper Lee’s: To Kill a Mockingbird. Throughout the book, Boo is thought of as a monster within the book’s setting of Maycomb County. He’s also known to be mentally ill and violent due to many stories about his past. However, I believe he’s just misunderstood. Boo Radley is actually a caring and courageous human being. Examples that benefit this idea include: Boo Radley giving gifts to Scout and Jem and saving Scout and Jem from Bob Ewell. Furthermore, throughout To Kill a Mockingbird; Boo Radley is shown to be misunderstood, caring, and courageous.
While the second part is about the trial of Tom Robinson. In the first part of the novel, Scout along with her brother Jem and her friend Dill investigate the mysterious life of their neighbor, Boo Radley. Boo has not left Boo Radley is the next door neighbor of the Finch’s. He is an outsider of the community, because he does not leave the house. He got in some trouble as a teenager, so his father locked him up inside the house.
Harper Lee’s only book, To Kill a Mockingbird, is the stereotypical tale of childhood and innocence, yet it successfully incorporates mature themes, like the racism in the South at the time, to create a masterpiece of a work that has enraptured people’s minds and hearts for generations. According to esteemed novelist Wally Lamb, “It was the first time in my life that a book had sort of captured me. That was exciting; I didn’t realize that literature could do that” (111). Scout’s witty narration and brash actions make her the kind of heroine you can’t help but root for, and the events that take place in Maycomb County are small-scale versions of the dilemmas that face our world today. Mockingbird is a fantastically written novel that belongs on the shelves for classic literature that everyone should take the time to read and appreciate for their execution of style and the importance of their content.
In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, a character named Boo Radley is humiliated by the citizens of Maycomb, Alabama. Boo Radley has stayed inside in his home for most of his life due to a violent incident that occurred with his father when he was a teenager (Lee 13). The novel states: “According to Miss Stephanie, Boo was sitting in the livingroom cutting some items from The Maycomb Tribune to paste in his scrapbook. His father entered the room. As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s
Minor characters are often more important than they initially seem, and can be just as engaging and complicated as major characters. Furthermore, protagonists are isolated without the people that surround and influence them subliminally. This applies to the intriguing minor characters one has the privilege of discovering in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Specifically, Lee uses minor characters to effectively disprove stereotypes and establishing setting. Not only do they influence the direction of the plot, but also Scout and her development as a character. Lee carefully selects minor characters to send important messages and reinforce themes by using characters as symbols. Fundamentally, the minor characters in “To Kill a Mockingbird” are crucial in making Harper Lee’s novel beautiful, moving, and believable enough to touch every reader.
your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires: / The eye
song it could be real or not but it’s part of thinking. Everything that you use to interpret your real
recounting the events and the “god, (see all)” perspective in the author Harper Lee. Although all
Although Atticus would play keep away in football, he wouldn’t allow Jem to tackle him. Jem felt that his dad should allow him to tackle him, but Atticus responded with the statement that he was too old. "Jem was football crazy. Atticus was never too tired to play keep-away, but when Jem wanted to tackle him, Atticus would say, I 'm too old for that, son."(pg.118). As the story progresses, they begin to see their dad in a different view. After Atticus shoots the rabid dog, Scout and Jem starts to respect and admiration for him increased dramatically. They gain a new respect for him as the novel closes. Both Jem and Scout realize what a great man Atticus is. They realize that he is a good person who works hard to defend Tom Robinson and overall on his job as well. They soon have a great amount of respect for their father when he was defending Tom Robinson. He sets a good example and cares about his
Scout gives Boo a chance by trying to get to know him for herself. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the mysterious Boo Radley is considered an outcast in Maycomb County. Scout still sees him as this monster, but still wants to learn more about him. She would even bribe him with food. She shows how desperate.” We're asking him real
Character Arthur “Boo” Radley is a social pariah widely viewed by the citizens of Maycomb county as a monster and a recluse that never leaves his home due to his troubled past and abusive family. When the character Dill, a boy who spends summers in Maycomb county asks about the mystery that is Boo Radley, the children inform him of how the community views him: “Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo… he dined on raw squirrels… There was a long jagged scar across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten” (Lee 16). Scout and Jem live in a particularly tight-knit community. Given this, everybody knows everybody and has made assumptions based on the town’s gossip. The minds of children are impressionable, leaving even Jem and Scout to form negative opinions. Through the course of the novel Arthur Radley proves himself to be a guardian towards the children, proving their previous assumptions wrong. After Atticus reads Scout a short story about the “Ghost Boy”, Scout talks about the main
There holds a societal obligation to preserve the dignity and uphold the respect for every human individual, with irrelevance to the human condition.Boo Radley’s character greatly contrasts his perceived social image to which, I believe that symbolizes society, into which Lee states that empathy may work wonders.Harper Lee utilizes Boo as a symbol for the outcasts of society, and the Maycomb residents for the socially standard, in which Boo’s actions teach the reader to consider the full breadth of the human individual, and apply empathy to the character’s social deviations.Boo Radley is a complex character consisting of quirks, longings, and above all, bursting with authenticity, compassion, and life. Such a character symbolizes the outcasts in society, not just the socially or mentally impaired, but all of the under recognized and discriminated in society. Such a bold statement is backed up through Boo’s journey from malignant deviant to a hero, as can be seen from the shift in Scout and Jem’s perceptions of him, presumably including Maycomb, under the pretense that his rescue of Scout and Jem did spread.
The southern, Harper Lee, is now one of the best know authors of all time. Her one novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, has sold over thirty million copies and has been translated in forty languages. Her topics ranged from racism to courage in the small southern town of Maycomb county Alabama. Her dialect and conflicts are accurate and match up with the time period. Harper Lee uses real people as characters, most which are children, to portray courage and integrity while keeping the plot and dialogue interesting.