Have you ever wondered, do I have blind spots? Do others have blind spots? What is a blind spot? A blind spot is when a person doesn't realize that they are missing something on a topic and sometimes end up hurting others. Everyone has blind spots.
“If there just one kind of folk, why can't they get along with each other ? if there alike then, why do they get thier way to despair other “ (227). He is explaining to scout to be mature and how Atticus was stating that everyone should be treated everyone equally. Jem is speaking out to the world. Jem realized that people are prejudice towards each other, and he thinks about how the people always bother boo Radley even though he doesn't do anything to no one.
Lee and Perkins both use characterisation and lighting to portray everyday prejudice. At the start of the novel, Jem and Scout’s view of Boo is based on rumours, such as “he dined on raw squirrels,” and “his hands were bloodstained.” Because of these rumours, they,
Scout and her brother, Jem have both been told untrue and rude stories, myths and claims about Boo Radley but these ideas of him start to change by the end of the book. We can see their
Blindness results from the misunderstanding of others and the lack of personal knowledge. In To Kill a Mockingbird, several characters fail to see the obvious because they do not obtain first-hand familiarity with their community. A short and simple example of this particular blindness is found in Lula’s character. The indignant and disenfranchised character, Lula, makes a major appearance in chapter 12. Lula is portrayed as a seven feet high Negro woman who is racist and discourteous for persecuting the white children.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, diverse conflicts and events change Jem’s feelings toward Boo Radley from being scared and don’t wanting anything to do with him to being interested and wanting to know everything about him. In addition, this developments in Jem’s feeling suggest that people can change toward others that differ from us getting to know them better. For example, in chapter 4 page 44 Jem tells Scout “‘Don’t you know you’re not supposed to even touch the trees over there? You’ll get killed if you do.’” but after, in chapter 7 page 80 Jem states “we found a whole package of chewing gum, which we enjoyed, the fact that everything on the Radley Place was poison slipped Jem’s memory.”
With Scout and Jem being too young to understand what their father really is doing, they believe that Boo Radley is the villain, but in the end they would soon find out what truly was evil. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill and Mockingbird”, she argues that children don’t
To begin, Boo Radley faces prejudice from the people in the town of Maycomb who view him as frightening and menacing. Jem, Scout, and Dill are victims of this assumption when Jem says, ‘“I hope you’ve got it through your head that
Our minds see someone and we automatically judge them, ether by their actions or appearance due to what the people within society tell us and what we see. We judge people by color of their skin and their physical appearance to the rumors we hear from our peers or see on social media, yet we do all this judging with hardly any thinking. In TKaM the people of Maycomb county would judge people by skin and a “white man 's word against a black man 's, the white man always wins.(TKaM 224)” They do this without thinking or creating their own opinion. Also in the novel Scout thinks that Boo Radley is died
(20) Jem’s exaggerated description demonstrates the community’s intense prejudice towards Boo Radley. The people are able to alienate a member based off of speculations. Scout, an innocent member of Maycomb, has grown up with the idea that Boo acts and looks like
Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird has many examples of prejudice. The prejudice presented is against people such as Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch, and Boo Radley. Each is discriminated against either because of the color of their skin, who they represent in court, or just how much they isolate themselves from the town. Harper Lee’s stance on racial prejudice is that it is a foolish practice, no matter who does it. Prejudice is a very large part of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Boo Radley had been kept in isolation for so long, he didn’t know how to communicate or socialise properly. He has been misunderstood as a malevolent person, when he actually is a benevolent person. He displays this when he put a blanket around Scout, whilst she and Jem watched the fire. As readers, we are shown social prejudice by the assumptions made about the Radley’s. Another example of social prejudice is the
Boo Radley taught them, in the sense, that you can’t Judge a book by its cover. At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout pictured Boo to be this “...malevolent Phantom (Lee 10).” that went out at night and looked through people’s windows. But after leaving them gifts in the tree and putting a blanket on Scout while she was standing out in the cold, Jem’s and Scout’s Perception of him began to evolve from a monster to a person.
You can see in the book as Jem and Scout go from a childish perspective, one that only sees good in people because they’ve never faced evil. To a more adult perspective who have confronted evil and learn to integrate it into their world. The first example of this is Boo Radley. Boo is a mockingbird.
In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee shows that we shouldn’t be too quick to judge another person’s character based on outward appearance and the stories and rumors we have heard. The character Boo Radley is a perfect example of why we shouldn’t be hasty to judge. On the outside, Boo looks like a scary neighbor that lives just a few houses away. “.....he had sickly white hands that had never seen the sun. His face was as white as his hands…..”
