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.
Block 3 I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and I finished the book. This book was about two innocent kids and their friend learning the way of the world, with the help of their father, Calpurnia and other people they learn that not everything in the world is like they imagen. In this journal I will be evaluating. I am evaluating the symbol of the mockingbird. I believe that one symbol that represent the mockingbird is Boo Radley.
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.
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.
He almost whispered it. In the voice of a child afraid of the dark ... “Mr. Arthur, bend your arm down here, like that”’ (Lee, 372). Scout uses the “simple trick” or empathy to see that Boo was afraid of this world that he was not accustomed to.
Despite this Dill he is the most interested in learning more about Boo. Dill is the first with Jem and Scout to try to look and talk to Boo to find out if all the rumors that he was told were true. Even though Boo Radley scares Dill, he thought that Boo was sad and lonely because he almost never came out of his house. This is evident when Jem and Dill decide to give a note to Boo inviting him out to get ice cream. They try to stick the note in a window with a fishing pole.
I believe that each character is symbolized in a positive or negative way, but throughout the book some changed dramatically. In ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ Bob became evil, during the trial it was told that Bob had a drinking problem. Also, Atticus exposed Mr. Ewell and everyone lost any respect they had for him. On page 292, Atticus says, “Jem see if you can stand in Bob Ewell’s shoes a minute. I destroyed his last credibility at that trial, if he had any to begin with.”
“Atticus was right, one time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.” Standing from Radley 's porch and talking to Atticus helped Scout grow as a character and receive a different point of view on the things around her. As a little girl Scout was told rumors about Boo Radley which led her to see him as a strange and mysterious man. After a traumatizing event, at the end of the book, Scout walks Boo Radley back home and after standing on his porch she sees a different side to Boo Radley then people once told her. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee develops the theme you never know a person unless you have walked in their shoes through point of view, flashback, and characterization.
Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.” Scout relives through what Boo Radley must have seen: Jem, Dill, and Scout playing games in their yard, Jem and Scout standing outside while Miss Maudie’s house burnt down, Jem and Scout being attacked. This helps her really understand the man whom she only saw once: Boo
I have finished reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This book is about a little girl named Scout growing up. The reader follows Scout through her evolving relationships, her encounters with her strange neighbor, and her realization that her hometown is not a faultless place. In this paper I will be evaluating.
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.
McCain – 1 The Mockingbirds: Who They Are The book To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee takes place in the small community of Maycomb County, Alabama. The story, based on the Scottsboro Boys case, is about a black man who is falsely accused of raping a young white woman. Atticus Finch, the lawyer of Tom Robinson and father of the protagonist, defends the accused and needs to balance what is morally right with what the local community desires. A key message in this story is that you should stand up for what is right.
To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel that takes place in Maycomb, Alabama. It was written by an American novelist born in Alabama, Harper Lee. Scout is the main character of the novel. Scout has a brother named Jem and a father named Atticus. Atticus teaches his children about hardiness and is a role model to the community.
In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, irony is used to introduce the theme that prejudice, on any level, is a destructive force that impairs progress and corrupts the innocent. Lee expresses this when Scout, the protagonist in this story, attends the first day of first grade, and is asked to read out the alphabet. She does this perfectly, and goes on to read excerpts of My First Reader and The Mobile Register. Her teacher, Mrs. Caroline, is less than pleased upon finding out that Scout was literate, and looked upon her with “more than faint distaste” for the rest of class (Lee 22).
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee many characters are victims of the harsh conditions of Maycomb County. Often those who are seen to be metaphorical mockingbirds are punished the most. A mockingbird is one who only wants and attempts to do good. Characters such as Boo Radley, Jem Finch and Tom Robinson are exemplars of mockingbirds in Maycomb. In the novel it is explained by Atticus that killing a mockingbird is a sin because they do not do anything to harm to us like nesting in corncribs, or eating up the gardens, they only sing for us.
