What Does Boo Radley Represent In To Kill A Mockingbird

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As you get older, you can see how people change and develop, over time, for example, with their actions. In this story, it really gives you a good feeling on what is happening and how their seeing it from their perspective in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee. In this essay, it will be focus on these three characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Boo Radley, Scout, and Tom Roberson. This essay will be about how these characters are a symbol of the mockingbird. Boo, Scout, and Tom symbolize the mockingbird effectively by their characterization throughout the novel. Boo Radley is a symbol of the mockingbird because of the way that the society pin points him into the margin, that’s what separates him from the town. In the earlier part of the book, Jem is describing Boo to Scout and Dill. He says that Boo is “a malevolent phantom” (Lee 15). Then as Jem tells more about Boo it give a really great understanding of how the town treats Boo. Jem said “People said he

When the author said that that Tom Robinson is dead, Mr. B.B. underwood reports about how senseless his death was, in the article it said “it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Tom’s death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters, and children”(Lee 254). As this quote gets an understanding of how much or an effect it plays into the story. At the same time it was in the early 1960’s that the story was taking place. When Atticus was in his equality speech, he said, “This case is as simple as black and white”(Lee 215). For Tom and Atticus it was a really big uphill battle just because of the racism agents black at that time. This is why Tom Robinson was convicted of the rape of Mayella Ewell and was innocent of this charged. This is why Tom Robinson is a symbol of the