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Dill's Struggles In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Divorce a common act when a married couple splits up. Sometimes this causes problems, because they might have children. Although they have dispersed from each other, they might take care of their kids if they had any. Dill is a complex character in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and has to face issues like this. Dill in this story begins to acquire characteristics such as curiosity, rejection, and empathetic ness, Dill gets a lot of curiosity since he came to see his grandma in the summer, and met Jem and Scout. Jem and Scout begin to talk to Dill about the neighborhood, especially the Radley house. The Radley 's are a very unusual family. If anything bad or unexpected happened, mostly everybody blamed it on the Radley house. Dill began to investigate in this situation. Scout said, " The more we told Dill about the Radley 's the more he wanted to know."(Lee, Pg 15) That is the beginning of Dill 's curiosity. When Dill found Jem and Scout he didn’t feel rejected. He felt like he kinda belonged. Even though he felt rejected from his family, he didn’t feel it with them. One day Scout was talking to Francis about Dill and her feeling for him. That one day they will get married. Then Francis said, " I know all about him, grandma says he hasn’t got a home."(Lee, Pg 109) When you see this …show more content…

It was the day of Tom Robinson 's trial and Jem, Scout, and Dill are going. Robinson a black man was convicted of raping a young white lady, and Atticus, Jem and Scout 's father was his lawyer. This trail was very interesting to everybody. When the trail was in session everybody was paying attention trying not to miss anything. Dill began to get emotional during this trail. These emotions began to impact him a lot, because of his family that didn’t care about him and he felt emtheticness from it. The trail was a big part for Dill. " I know all that, Scout. It was the way he said it made me sick,"(Lee, Pg 99) Dill said. This affection began to shape Dill to the person

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