To Kill A Mockingbird Essay

Harper Lee’s 1960 novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a dive into some very essential life lessons, such as having empathy and humanity for others. Narrated by Jean Louise, better known as Scout Finch throughout the novel. She is a young girl who is on her journey to discover the cruelty and corruption of the justice system. How despite a black person's innocence being proven, their skin will always outlaw it. Unfortunately, Tom Robison and Boo Radley will be no exception to society bias.

Tom Robinson is described as a kind and caring man that doesn’t think twice about extending a hand to others. He is a diligent man who worked in Link Deas Cotton field. He had a wife and children whom he cohabited with in the ‘town dumpster’. Every time Tom

The mysterious character in the story, whose light was not shed upon until the very end. He was locked up by his father due to a minor infraction that occurred in his youth. However, even after the fifteen years had passed Boo did not want to leave his house because of the evil he knew existed outside of it and because of this he kept home. Where he knew he would be safe from it. He didn’t have a major impact in the story until the very end where he saves Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell, who attempted to murder them because of the humiliation that Atticus put him through previously at court. Boo stabbed Ewell with his own knife, saving the children from a potentially catastrophic fate. Boo was perhaps the last character readers anticipated to make such a heroic act, especially this late in the novel. After this Scouts perception of Boo changed dramatically. She realized he was not a monster but a misunderstood man who did not want to put up with the injustice and cruelty, so he hid from it. She realizes Boo is like a Mockingbird, he did no harm to anyone, yet people pictured him as an evil and violent man, proving that people can have a very distorted view of reality and they will continue to live in it unless something