Dolphus The Dolphin Theme Essay

Theme in Dolphus the Dolphin What makes a good book a good book? Well, it’s just based off of a person’s opinion after reading it, right? It just depends on how much someone personally enjoys the book, right? Well, throughout books world-wide, there are key aspects that most people merely look over without fully perceiving its presence. These are called literary elements. They’re of huge importance to any book, from children’s comics to history volumes. And in the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are so many literary elements that make its story so celebrated in English classrooms after over fifty years since its publication. This paper will ultimately explain the most important three elements to the theme of the story in one passage of the book; the Dolphus Raymond scene. The theme that this paper will be focusing on is how Scout and Dill

Raymond had given Maycomb County a reason to latch onto in order to accept the way he is, even if that reason isn’t true. On page 229 of To Kill A Mockingbird, it says, “When I come into town, which is seldom, if I weave a little and drink out of this sack, folks can say Dolphus Raymond’s in the clutches of whiskey--that’s why he won’t change his ways. He can’t help himself, that’s why he lives the way he does.” Every day, he acts like a drunk in public, and even though he doesn’t exactly enjoy it, he does it to appease the world, not himself. In a nutshell, he’s fighting society’s ways in the best way he can, and maybe even the smartest way. What he does induces no violence and creates little to no drama other than the occasional rumors and gossip. Is this necessarily fair? No. But is it relatively peaceful for this time era compared to other events that could happen?