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To Kill A Mockingbird

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To Kill A Mockingbird is a Novel by Harper Lee, The Novel is about standing up for people and how it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird. The title To Kill A Mockingbird is an appropriate title for this novel, three reasons it is an appropriate title is because Boo Radley could be referred to as a Mockingbird and Tom Robinson could be referred to as a Mockingbird. Mockingbirds are also referred to all throughout the book. Boo Radley could be a mockingbird because he only wanted to help Scout and Jem he never tried to hurt them in any way. Like how mockingbirds only make music and they do no harm to people gardens or vandalize their possessions. Boo Radley gave them goods in a oak tree, Boo recurrently put new items in the knot whole …show more content…

This is in a way only doing good things for the kids and doing no harm. He is not hurting them or tormenting them in any way. Boo also could have been the one who folded Jem's pants the night they tried to look in to the Radley house. “‘When I went back, they were folded across the fence...like they were ex-pecint’ me.’”(Lee, pg 78) If Jem didn't go back and someone realized that the pants left in the yard where his he could have been accused of going into the Radley’s yard which could have gotten him in trouble. So when he went back they were also sewn back together where the rip was. If this was Boo Radley he was just trying to help Jem. Boo also protected Jem and Scout from the attack from Bob Ewell. “Before he went inside the house, he stopped in front of Boo Radley. ‘Thank you for my children, Arthur,’he said,”(Lee, pg 370) This is another example of when Boo is just helping the children. The night Bob Ewell attacks Jem and Scout where defenseless until Boo showed up to save them from Bob. That's why Boo Radley can be portrayed as a

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Boo’s innocence is abused as a result of mistakes he made in his past. Even though he tries to subtly help others so he can gain their trust, they still think he is untrustworthy. When Jem is trying to slip under the Radley fence, his pants get stuck, so he leaves them there. Boo knows that Jem will come back and get his pants, so he quickly mends them. Boo wants to help, not hurt Jem.

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There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten, his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.” Little do they know that Boo Radley will play a huge part in their survival at the end of the book when the crazy Bob Ewell Attacks them and Boo Radley protected them, something that Jem and scout would’ve never imagined, But something that the reader could foreshadow. Due to Boo’s acts of kindness like when he returned Jem’s pants sowed after he got them caught on the barb wire fence while he was snooping and around and also the gifts he left in the knot of the tree that helped him build a deeper sentimental relationship with Jem and Scout even if the kids did not know it. Boo had built such a relationship with them that he had done something extremely courageous and protects Jem and scout from Bob

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It is only during his trial do people discover that he is honourable and willing to do tasks for others without expecting anything in return, proving that not all African-Americans are malicious. Furthermore, Boo Radley is a person who is drowned by false rumours, causing people to believe he is a psychopath and forcing him to stay inside his house to avoid unwanted attention. Despite this, Boo always looks out for others, specifically Jem and Scout. When Jem tears his pants escaping from the Radley property, Boo mends them for him. Additionally, when Bob Ewell attempts to kill the children on Halloween night, it is Boo who saves Jem and Scout from further harm.

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After finding out Jem becomes very upset and Scout says, “He stood there until nightfall and I waited. I saw he had been crying; his face was dirty in the right places, but I thought it odd that I had not heard him” (page 63). Jem finds out that Mr. Radley had been the one to fill the tree with cement. Jem realizes that Mr. Radley filled the hole because they were in contact with Boo. Jem’s loss of innocence is realizing that maybe Boo isn’t the mean Radley in the

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However almost everyday Jem finds toys or random objects in the tree out front of the Radleys house. This gives Jem the idea that Boo isn 't some horrible monster after all. “Atticus believes Jem killed Ewell in self-defense, but Tate makes him realize that Boo Radley actually stabbed Ewell and saved both children 's lives.”(lee 28) This quote shows that the children had been put in a situation where the so-called “monster” Boo Radley saved their lives and they now could look at him not as some maniac but a hero and regular person who stays inside to protect himself from the stereotypes and cruelty of the world because of something people had said and that had been spread throughout the

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To the children, so much as entering the front yard of the Radley house is a terrifying feat. At this time, the children do not understand Boo’s situation, as they have yet to meet him and know little about him apart from the stories. In the end, the children learn that Boo has been watching them all along and has even been a helpful presence in their lives. He was the one who left gifts in the tree outside the Radley yard for Scout and Jem, and he gave Scout a blanket during the fire. More importantly, however, Boo was the mysterious figure who saved the Finch children from Bob Ewell’s attack.

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They concluded that Boo Radley was the one who rushed in and saved the Finch children. When scout is recounting the events of the last few years of your life she notes, “Boo was car neighbor. He gave us soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of goodluck pennies and our lives.” (Lee 373). This quote shows that Boo is a hero that saved the Finch children, and not the terrible human everyone made

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Boo Radley never harmed anyone, but was victimized by the social prejudice of the Maycomb community. Although not established until the end of the novel, Boo Radley is set up to be the last discovered symbolic character for the image of the mockingbird. Harper Lee has done this to illustrate all points of injustice in the 1930s societal town of Maycomb, where rumours and old tales define Boo's life story rather than his authentically generous heart and personality. During the concluding chapter of the novel, Scout comes to the realization that blaming Boo for Bob Ewell's death would be "sort of like shootin' a mockingbird." Boo does many kind-hearted things in the novel such as leaving gifts in the knot-hole for Scout and Jem, repairing Jem's pants, putting the blanket on Scout discretely in order to keep her warm, and even saving them from the evil Bob Ewell.

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