To Kill A mockingbird In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee creates a theme that being scared of something can make us say or think of unnecessary thoughts about that object that brings fear to us. Lee shows us this theme through the element of dialog and characterization. We see this in many chapters for example chapter 1. We hear a lot about Boo and how he is a mean old person. Also in real life we hear about if someone has a fear of snakes that one person my talk about snakes like there slimy, disgusting, and they may say something that is unpleasant about snakes, but you get someone that thinks snakes are pleasent to have around, they may say that there patterns are very unique,or even that the snakes are very important. …show more content…
In chapter 1 on page 14 Jem describes what Boo looks like. “Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half-feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained-if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off.”(14) Because of what all of Jems neighbors are telling him, Jem gets a fearful image of Boo, and Jem tells Dill about the Radley’s and says that ”...if Dill wanted to get himself killed, all he had to do was go up knock on the front door.”(14) Also the way the Radley’s house looks makes you and the characters get a horrific emotion about Boo. Lee uses words like “sharp”, “south”, darkened”, “rain-rotted”, “terrorized”, and “slate-gray”(9) to describe what the radley house looks like, but because of this image we get a fearful, unsoothing feeling that makes us tense up about the Radley …show more content…
Later in the book we find out this fear that the reader, the town, and even Jem and Scout had about Boo was not what we all have imagined, we thought Boo was going to be some dark cave man guy but he turns out to be a very kind man that just wanted to play and enjoy life, but he was locked up in his own house for so many years. If we were to look at all of this from a different angle let’s say that the Radley house was pink with a lot of lovely, incredible flowers outlining the upright porch. Every day the sun would shine through the oak tree and hit the house at the perfect angle, and what if the book said the house seemed to be cozy and warm. Most of us would picture a peaceful man living life to the fullest. We can say because of the way the house was described to us in the book we get an anxious feeling about the people in the house, but our assumptions made about Boo and the Radley house was false. A second example of the theme Lee gives to us would be in chapters 28 when Jem and scout are getting older and they get getting assaulted by Bob Ewell. On page 299 Harper Lee uses the imagery “I could hear his breath coming easily beside me. Occasionally there was this sudden breeze that hit my bare legs, but it was all that
In the book we see the Radley house which has over grown grass around the house and the area the house is in is all alone. The Geography of this house makes us then emphasize the fact that the people living in it are scary and mean. At the end of the book, we learn that Boo is not scary or mean. Although this is what the author intended to do in the beginning and make us confused in the end. Another big indicator is that the Radley’s yard has a broken fence which was used to sneak into Boo Radley’s yard and there is also tall
Mockingbird, a southern novel, Harper Lee uses the characterization of Atticus and Boo Radley. Lee also uses the symbolism of the mockingbird in her book. Both the characters and the symbolism show that innocence should be defended rather than attacked. To begin with, Atticus develops the theme by defending his children from racism and, also, defending Tom in court despite all the struggles.
In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses indirect characterization to show how Scout learns the lesson of empathy. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee the character Scout initially sees Boo Radly as a terrifying monster that causes trouble. But this was when Scout didn't understand the concept of empathy. This story takes place in a small old southern county called Maycomb. The main character whose nickname is Scout is explaining a rumor to a new friend Dill with her brother Jem about a monstrous being called Boo Radley.
The three kids were chatting and Dill wondered what Boo looks like so Jem describes Boo as “about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained… There was an long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most or the time.” (Lee,16) This is the result of what happens when rumors are spread, people are misjudged and sometimes avoided like how Boo is shown throughout the book until the end. Boo Radley is wrongfully judged and admonished when it is just that not many people are circumspect.
In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, is about a town full of racism, hatred, and stubbornness, with a case about a black man allegedly raping a white girl through the eyes of a little girl named Scout, with the adventures she has with her brother Jem and her friend Dill. It illiterates the existence of good and evil characters using symbolism, imagery, and situational irony. First, symbolism is an important part in this novel. In the novel ,Atticus states that it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird. You can relay this to the title and to Tom Robinson’s trial.
In the book To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, we follow Jem and Scout as they try to discover who Boo Radley truly is. In Maycomb County, Boo becomes stereotyped as a monster that has been hiding for many years. Scout and Jem want to find out why Boo stays inside and if he really is as bad as people claim. Jem and Scout use empathy and try to relate to him even though he is seemed a monster. Boo teaches Jem and Scout to not judge someone from stereotypes and try to understand a person for who they truly are.
In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the author shows that Scout is self-centered through the use of indirect characterization. When Scout brings a tire for Dill, Jem, and her to play with, they start arguing about who will go first and Scout comes out and says “I’m first” (Lee 49). She doesn’t even take what the other two want into consideration. All she cares about is her going first in the tire. While Scout is leaving her classroom at the end of the day, her teacher is crying and she says that “Had her conduct been friendly toward me, I would have felt sorry for her” (Lee 29).
Just standing on the Radley porch was enough. ”(279). Scout uses her imagination to try and view all the past events that have occurred through Boo’s eyes. When she does this she realizes that Boo isn’t a bad person at all, he is actually kind of like a guardian angel. Boo Radley’s character proves a great point that we should never judge or assume things about another person that we know nothing
Soon, Jem and Scout mention Boo Radley to their new friend Dill. Being a newcomer to Maycomb, Dill becomes curious and wants to know what Boo is like. In an attempt to give Dill a sense of who he is, “Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six and a half feet tall... he dined on raw squirrels... his eyes popped.”
Throughout the novel, the children befriend Boo Radley, since he is a shut in and many children of the neighborhood are quite curious as to what he does inside all of the time. Boo and Scout came specifically close, him giving her a blanket when Maudie Atkinson’s house burned down and at the climax point when he makes his initial known physical appearance as he saves Scout and Jem when Bob Ewell attacks them. After the Tom Robinson trial, Jem and Scout are finally starting to see from his perspective as Jem says “Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time... it's because he wants to stay inside.
In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the main character and narrator Scout recalls the events leading up to her brother Jem’s broken arm. Throughout the story, the two children come upon several mysterious acts of kindness. Little do they know that they are from the one person the childrenthey would least expect: Boo Radley. Boo is mentally challenged and stays away from the public. Though he scares many of his neighbors, he never does anything to cause other people harm.
The setting of the story is Maycomb County Alabama during the 1930s, a time when racism was at its strongest. The main characters who symbolize the mockingbird are Tom, Boo, and Jem. These characters are innocent people who have been injured or destroyed through contact with evil. Lee portrays innocence in many ways. Innocence can mean freedom from guilt
Primary Evidence: Jem tells Scout that he thinks that Boo stays in his house because Boo knows that if he was to be seen in public he would be judged by Maycomb citizens (Lee 227). 2. Interpretation: Like a mockingbird, Boo is misjudged and people are scared that he will harm them, but he is actually innocent and loving. B. Claim: Boo radley is a loving giving man who likes to bring joy to
There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten, his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.” Little do they know that Boo Radley will play a huge part in their survival at the end of the book when the crazy Bob Ewell Attacks them and Boo Radley protected them, something that Jem and scout would’ve never imagined, But something that the reader could foreshadow. Due to Boo’s acts of kindness like when he returned Jem’s pants sowed after he got them caught on the barb wire fence while he was snooping and around and also the gifts he left in the knot of the tree that helped him build a deeper sentimental relationship with Jem and Scout even if the kids did not know it. Boo had built such a relationship with them that he had done something extremely courageous and protects Jem and scout from Bob
Decide how the relationship between Scout and Boo Radley evolves providing sufficient evidence In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Scout develops a strange relationship with a mysterious character, Boo Radley. Scout, Jem, and Dill are interested in Boo Radley because of the mystery that dominates around him and the Radley house. The town people poorly judge Boo Radley and hearing stories from Miss Stephanie Crawford frightens Scout and Jem. Although the relationship starts out as fear and mystery, as time passes, Scout begins to realize that Boo isn’t the monster they described him as, he is rather a nice and caring person.