I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This book is about a girl, named Scout, her brother Jem, and the people who lived in the small town of Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930s. Along with their summer friend, Dill, the children become obsessed with the idea of getting a look at their unseen neighbor, Boo Radley. Meanwhile, their father, Atticus Finch, decided to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who was wrongly accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. The children get caught up in the trial, in which Tom is convicted and eventually killed while trying to escape from prison.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee). Another symbol that I think symbolises the mockingbird is Tom Robinson. Tom robinson is in trial for his life for something that he did not do. He had to fight for his innocents and Atticus is by his side helping him. The white people though that he was guilty just because his skin color was not the same as them.
Throughout the book Lee portrays the theme by using the character Boo Radley. In the first chapter Scout and her brother describe Boo as a malevolent and hideous person who eats animals raw. All throughout the majority of the book Scout never actually sees Boo Radley and because of this she places judgment and false accusations on him. Although at the very end of the novel Scout does meet Boo Radley in person, and she is standing on the porch of the Radley place when she starts to come to a realization. She says “Atticus was right.
Scout Finch is not an ordinary girl, and she does not want to be. Everything about her life proves a little bit out of the ordinary, especially the mysteries of her town. Things start to get even more odd than usual when a neighbor’s nephew, Dill, arrives. He has an untamed curiosity that also boosts Scout’s wonder to figure out the truth of the Radley house next door and the mysterious Boo Radley who lives there. While many questions surround Scout, her father takes a case that will change all of their lives.
I have two questions. Who is placing the items in the tree and who are the items meant for? I think that Nathan Radley or Boo Radley are placing the items in the knothole. First, I think it could be Nathan because the person putting the items in the tree had to be an adult. No children go by the tree except for Scout and Jem because the tree is by the Radley house and all of the other kids are scared of the Radleys.
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the circumstances of Boo Radley’s fate signifies the sin of killing a mockingbird because of his disconnection to the world as a result of his maltreatment. In his reckless teenage years, Boo Radley and his Old Sarum friends drove around the town square in a borrowed car and locked Maycomb’s beadle in the courthouse outhouse. Harsh punishment ensued as a result of his brash actions when Mr. Radley detained Boo in their house and “was not seen again for fifteen years” (13). This symbolizes the killing of a mockingbird because Boo Radley was a young, foolhardy boy who was cut off from the world by his father due to a single mistake.
Immediately from the outset of the novel, Scout and Dill and the other kids in the neighborhood judge Boo Radley and imagine that he is some sort of “monster” or “boogeyman” just because he is different and does not come out much in public. Just based on what they have heard or imagine about Boo, Scout races past his house as if her life depended on it. She did not take the time to get to know him at all until he saved her life at the end of the story when Authur “Boo” Radley saves her land Jem’s lives does Scout see him as a human being and realize that he is actually a good guy. In the end, Scout even likens Boo to the “mockingbird” that her father told her it was a sin to kill because it hurts no one when she hugs her dad and thanks him
People always seem different than they turn out to be in the end. Throughout the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Boo Radley is first perceived as an evil monster by almost everyone. This is because at first the kids just use Boo as a ghost like character in ghost stories, but throughout the book, Scout’s view on Boo changes a lot and she really starts to accept Boo as a friend and neighbor and not just a made up character in a story and games.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the author Harper Lee, uses the symbol of the mockingbird in order to convey the theme that the innocent aren’t always judged fairly, ultimately helping the readers to gain a deeper understanding of characters. For instance, after the introduction of Boo Radley, an ominous and mysterious character, the readers learn about negative preconceived notions residents of Maycomb have of him. He was used as a scapegoat for anything that went wrong around town and as a way to scare children. Later on, after further examination, Scout realizes that Mr. Radley was simply a character who liked to keep to himself. This correlates to the symbol of the Mockingbird because of the similar themes both characters portray.
Rumors swept through the town, ruining a man’s reputation and giving him no reason to step outside of his own home. In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Arthur “Boo” Radley is the most complex of Maycomb’s residents. Many say Boo is a killer that should not be trusted near children. However, Scout thinks otherwise as she tries to understand Boo herself. She learns more than she figured, as Boo teaches her numerous lessons without even meeting her.
Harper Lee and Tate Taylor contend that those who do not fit into society are misunderstood and often have different realities. To Kill a Mockingbird is set in 1935 in Maycomb, a Southern American town where everyone attends church and socialises with people within their social hierarchy. However, the Radleys isolate themselves from Maycomb by not going to church and worshipping at home. Furthermore, the Radley’s house doors and shutters are always closed, which is “another thing alien to Maycomb’s ways.” As a result, the Radley’s do not fit into Maycomb societal standards.
Dill Harris, the boy who Scout and Jem befriended, was interested in the Radley’s from the first time he knew about them. The Radley’s lived in an unkempt, dark, scary house on the same street as Scout and Jem. Because of all the gossip Dill heard from Stephanie Crawford, Scout, and Jem about Boo Radley, he was curious to see what he was like. Was the thirty-something-year-old Radley son really a gang member? Did he really have bloodstained hands?
Multiple characters are symbolized as mockingbirds because it would be a sin to kill them as they only try and want to be a kind, civil person. Boo Radley is a misunderstood, and kind-hearted man who is represented as a mockingbird in the novel. Boo, due to the county's curiosity and fast pace spreading of rumours, is often perceived as monster “Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom” (Lee 8).
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Based upon To Kill a Mockingbird as well as “How Southern Socialites Rewrote Civil War History,” one can conclude that stories prove powerful, as they allow the storyteller to impose his will upon others. In To Kill a Mockingbird, the story of Boo Radley’s death proves powerful, as Jem utilizes it to impose his will on Scout, forcing her to take part in his play. Jem accomplishes this action by developing a dismissive tone towards Scout’s trepidation, as evidenced when he states, “He (Boo Radley) died years ago, and they (Boo Radley’s family) stuffed him up the chimney” (Lee 51). Here, Jem references the image of a chimney, an item associated with allowing smoke to exit a structure, preserving the safety of those inside.
