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Fair Quotes In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Jasmine Guinness, a designer and a fashion model, once said “Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.” In the small town of Maycomb there are many characters that get wrongfully accused that are like mockingbirds, they never do anything that is harmful to anyone else, and all they do is help. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are many mockingbird figures including Tom Robinson, Arthur “Boo” Radley, and Jem Finch.
Tom Robinson is wrongly accused of rape because of his skin color and this is why he is considered a mockingbird. In between questions in the trial Scout thought to herself “Tom Robinson was probably the …show more content…

The three kids were chatting and Dill wondered what Boo looks like so Jem describes Boo as “about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained… There was an long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most or the time.” (Lee,16) This is the result of what happens when rumors are spread, people are misjudged and sometimes avoided like how Boo is shown throughout the book until the end. Boo Radley is wrongfully judged and admonished when it is just that not many people are circumspect. On the other hand, after Arthur saved Scout and Jem he came to visit them and after he left Jem he asked Scout to walk him home and and they were walking Scout realized “If Miss Stephanie Crawford was watching from her up-stairs window, she would see Arthur Radley escorting me down the sidewalk, as any gentleman would do. (Lee, 373) Throughout the whole book we perceived Arthur as a monster but we see, especially in this moment that he is a person just like everyone else. Overall, Arthur “Boo” Radley embodies the mockingbird symbol very well because of how wrongfully judged he is and how he only helped everyone throughout the

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