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To Kill A Mockingbird Alabama Quotes

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Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird is a Novel about a little town called Maycomb Alabama. This story is about a pair of siblings, Scout the younger sister and Jem the big brother. Boo what people call Arthur Radly, is a local legend who is described as a total of different things. Many people want to be as far away from him as possible but since no one has ever seen him leave the house that caused a lot of different types of gossip that were passed around town about who he is, and what he has done. Boo is portrayed to be some sort of “being” that the kids have never seen before. In the county of Maycomb, a large number of people were making up stories about him. The kids believed that he was a phantom and that he killed one of his …show more content…

When Atticus finds out that his kids are playing this game he expresses his feeling of disappointment “ Give me those scissors,” Atticus said. “ They’re no things to play with. Does this by any chance have to do with the Radleys? (45). They have the scissors and they can play the “main” part of the story which is that Boo stabbed his mom with a pair of Scissors. Atticus thought this because of the chitchat going around town telling different people this information. Miss Stephanie Crawford passed information to Jem that “ Boo drove a pair of scissors into his parent's leg” (12) This shows the rumors that have gone around that people aren’t sure if they are true. This is in fact upsetting because no one knows a lot about Boo and the fact that people make up these rumors is …show more content…

“ You’re right. We’d better keep this and the blanket to ourselves. Someday maybe, Scout can thank him for covering her up. (81) This is when Scout and Jem realize who covered up Scout during the fire. “ Thank who?” I asked “ Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn’t know it when he put the blanket around you. This is an example of the kids seeing how nice Boo truly is and not believing rumors. This is showing that even though no one knows about Boo and all the rumors going around that he is an awful person don’t believe everything you hear from people. Don’t assume jabber if you don’t know the

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