How Does Hall Present Eric's Relationship In To Kill A Mockingbird

Thesis: Hall uses relationships throughout the novel to connect Eric to the real world and the metaphysical world to support the idea that grief can be overcome with the strengths and guidance of others. Hall expresses the changing of feelings from loneliness to fulfillment with Eric at the beginning of the novel and at the end of novel. The connection between Clio and Scout are made very strong to express Eric’s search for reassurance and his journey toward recovering from his grief and he does this in his own mind with the reimagining of his wife through Scout. The author also addresses the idea that Eric is unaware that this connection is so evident and that Eric is not able to accept these and is attempting to overcome his dissociative

There are many resemblances that the reader is made aware of in the novel with the tattoo that Scout and Clio share which is the smiley face on their toe and their similar responses when addressing the tattoo but we also see a deeper connection with personal behaviors and mutual feelings towards Eric. These instances in the novel that connect the two characters in Eric’s head is evident to the reader that they are possibly the same person and we can conclude that this is Eric’s reincarnation of his wife Clio through Scout. Although this is evident to the reader; in Eric’s mind, he sees these two characters as different people for most of the novel and when confronted with evidence that they may be the same person Eric only states “It just reminded me of someone” (176). We see after this that the relationship between eric and Scout may not just be something of coincidence and that if this truly is a reincarnation of Clio in his mind that this may be his attempt at moving forward from without the burden of losing

Eric is put into his dissociative state because of the death of his wife and Scout is believed to be a reincarnation of Clio. Throughout the novel, we are motivated to believe that in Eric’s mind the relationship between himself and Scout is not connected to the relationship he had with Clio. The reader’s assumptions are much different from this relationship and is finally supported at the start of chapter thirty-four where the Ludovician attacks the boat and as Eric yells out “Scout” while searching for her, his mind accepts the reality of everything “propping [him]self up against the sloping cabin, quietly, wet with sobbing tears, “Clio.”” (415). At this point it is confirmed that Scout and Clio and one in the same and that this is Eric reimagining Clio as Scout. We also see that Eric is finally able to let go of his grief but that this was not possible without his relationship with Scout and through her is able to let go of his grief and move on from the