English essay – To kill A Mocking Bird
‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ written by Harper Lee is a book narrated by Scout Finch, set in Macomb during the 1930’s which was a period of racial tension, published in 1960 this a story primarily about racism. The single farther of Jem and Scout, Atticus is a lawyer defending a black man ‘Tom Robinson’ who is accused of raping a white woman. Throughout the novel the characters in to kill a mocking bird, did not change their ways and racial tension still remained. The town after the judgment still remained racist. Although boo Radley did come out of his house, he went back to his house and locked himself up. Atticus did not change his parenting styles nor did he change himself.
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The children where on a hunt to find Boo, Boo was constantly on their minds, they thought a lot about him. The first time Boo is mentioned in the novel, is when Dill came over for the summer, the three kids only had a certain area in which they could play unsupervised, three to the left of the finches, were the Radleys, where their unsupervised play was aloud till. The children had heard all sorts of stories about the Radley family and knew they had a not so sane son. The children found this mysterious case fascinating. Near to the end of the novel Scout has an encounter with her project and could not be happier, scout found out that Boo was, a nice man and just did not want to have connection with the outside world. “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". Scout begins to realise the dangers of the big bad world and now understands why Boo went back to his house, where he belonged, away from this insane world. "Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was