To Kill A Mockingbird Dialectical Journal Essay

I am reading To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee. The book is about a family that lives in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama and takes place during the great depression. It is a very small town where everyone knows each other. However there is an outsider, Mr. Radley that the kids in town, Jem, Scout, and Dill want to know more about. In this journal I will be predicting and evaluating.

Through most of the book Boo is like a ghost, Scout never sees him but his presence is felt throughout the story. For example:The gifts that Boo left in the tree made Scout and Jem happy even though they were scared of him. At first they were suspicious e.g. not wanting to eat the chewing gum, but it soon became fun for them. The soap dolls meant that someone who had Jem and Scout had carved them and the fact that Nathan Radley filled in the hole makes the reader suspicious that Boo is responsible for the gifts.

To Kill a Mockingbird is told from the perspective of Jean-Louise “Scout” Finch, a young girl of Maycomb County. As Scout grows older, she witnesses or is subjected to the harsh realities of life: racism, prejudice, small-mindedness, traditional gender roles and expectations, social hierarchy and the coexistence of good and evil. First-person narration is a technique that effectively enhances how the reader, through Scout’s eyes, learns about those realities. “‘Your father does not know how to teach. You can have a seat now.’

I think they will not meet Boo because the kids fear him. The kids fear him because he is scary looking. In the book, they describe him as having a long jagged scar that runs across his face. Also, he had bloody hands from the squirrels and cats that he would catch and eat raw. Another way they describe him in the book is that he was drooling and his eyes were popping out all the time.

Few people know the truth behind Boo’s reasons for his seclusion-- most of those such as Atticus Finch refuse to speak openly on the matter, especially in front of the children. Because many do not know how accurate the myths are, they assume his life story,

TKAM Lit Analysis In the classic novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee a little girl, that goes by the name of Scout, and her brother, Jem. The book details the experiences they had in one of the worst times in American history. This dark period is referred to as The Great Depression. The Finch kids learn about all of the problems of the world with the help of her Father, a local Drunk, and the Towns Menace.

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the reader will notice several minuscule differences between it and the movie that is modeled after the book. Jem and Scout Finch’s relationship with Boo Radley grows as the storyline progresses until the end of the novel when the kids’ relationship with Boo Radley is the strongest after he saves Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell when he attacks them. The same is for the movie, though there are many slight or miniscule differences between the book and the movie, the relationship that the kids share with Boo remains the same in the way it grows and how they bond. The filmmaker was faithful to the novel by Harper Lee in how the children get to know Boo, how Bob Ewell gets mad at Atticus, and how Boo Radley saves the children.

Reference Explanation The Title To Kill A Mockingbird It is not immediately obvious as to what this means. The birds themselves are not harmful and only eat insects and berries. Charles Darwin used them in his research to prove the idea of evolution ‘When he was nearly thirteen my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow’ p.3 Foreshadowing. The incident in which Jem breaks his arm is obviously going to be important to the novel because it is mentioned here at the very beginning.

Critical Theory Essay In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, the author tackles a lot of different topics throughout the novel for it was a book written in times of segregation and a time when the world didn’t see many people as equals, in a world where you had to play a certain role on society based off who you were, the 60’s. Therefore what appealed to me alot in this novel was the lens of feminism, in the way the character Scout was perceived by audiences then and even the audiences of present time. As well as the lens of african american criticism, in how black people were seen by society of the time and how it affected the black community.

In the beginning of the story the children are afraid of Boo Radley. They hear different things that make him think he is a different person than he really is. “Boo was sitting in the

To Kill A Mockingbird and I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings are two novels about two females and their endeavor with racism. Although these two girls are two different skin colors they face the same very harsh world from their own point of view. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout, the main character, has a father, Atticus, and a brother, Jem, that live in the south as a family. Her father is assigned a case as a lawyer to defend a Negro man against rape, throughout that time the family is severely harassed about Atticus’s assignment.

Due to the fact that Boo never shows his face in the neighborhood, people were forced to make incorrect assumptions about him. After the plot twist near the end of the book, Boo’s neighbors are proved erroneous once and for all. When Bob Ewell attacks Jem and her

Humanity, its choices, and its challenges Can the decisions we in our lives mold us to who we are and for what we will be remembered for when our time passes? Good and evil can shape and mold us into many things that we use to us define as people or even as a species. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, characters in the story have made the choice to follow good or evil, equality or racism, and these ideas helped shape the characters and people of that time period that we know in the story and give reason to why they are motivated to the things they do in the story. The influences these people had during their time period of the 1930s and challenges also contributed to the motivation of their actions and opinions, whether it was good

because he wants to stay inside” (251) Boo doesn’t do anything to annoy anybody else and takes care of Jem and Scout without them even knowing. For example when Boo hides items in the tree trunk on his yard for them to find and he wraps Scout in a blanket when Miss. Maudie’s house burned

I predict that the kids won’t see Boo. The first reason I think they won’t see Boo is because he is rarely ever seen outside. People in the town rarely see Boo because he was in a gang with a couple other people, they got in trouble and Boo had to go to court but his dad made a deal with the judge to keep Boo inside the house so he will be able to watch Boo. After Boo got put in the house he has rarely been seen outside. Another reason the kids have never seen Boo is because Boo doesn’t go to church and they always keep their shutters closed and doors locked.