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To Kill A Mockingbird Impact On Society

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Kenna Spears Mrs . Frye Honors English 1 2 March 2023 The Impact of Society in To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a book about a young girl scout, and her family living in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. Scout and her brother Jem experience and learn about prejudice, racism, and how good and evil can coexist within a single individual or community. The society of Maycomb greatly affected the people of the town. Society shaped and influenced people all across Maycomb starting with scout herself, Mr. Dolphus Raymond, and Boo Radley(Arthur Radley). One example of society affecting and influencing a character is Scout. One of the biggest influential things was her father, Atticus Finch. Atticus was always trying to teach …show more content…

Boo was looked at as the monster of Maycomb, ever since he was a young boy there had been multiple stories made up about him. He was the gossip of town most of the time, having he never came out of the house. For example, during cold weather, if flowers freeze it is because Boo breathed on them. Boo is also credited for some smaller crimes that take place in Maycomb. It is believed that pecans that fall from the trees on Radley property will cause death, and if a ball ever lands in the Radley's yard it is lost forever. Jem also believes that Boo eats raw animals and has yellow teeth. These false accusations have left Boo Radley with eyes constantly on him and always being the gossip of the town, when the poor man does nothing. Boo stays inside the house due to this gossip, never coming out. Although the Book never came out of the house, from his house he could see the whole town. He could see all the bad of this town and what was going on. Scout and Jem also impacted him enough for Boo to come and save the children from Bob Ewell when they were attacked. Also when Miss. Maudie's house caught on fire and the whole town was helping, Boo had placed a blanket on Scout, and Scout had a big enough impact for Boo to come out when the whole town was surrounding Ms. Maudies and made sure she wasn't

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Even Scout and Jem never know the real him. They think he is a monster. “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his track; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained…” (Lee 14). The children did not know he was a good man until he saved them.

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In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee talks about discrimination based on gender role, age, and skin color. The characters in this book all have different personalities that influences others. Maycomb, Alabama in 1930’s is where everything happened with slavery and struggling with being poor. The characters Scout, Jem, and Dill had a strong bond and had lots of courage. Shows that justice means other things to other people.

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Maycomb Miranda Mixner Have you ever wondered how people's words or actions will affect someone in the long run? In the book To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, the main character Scout and her brother Jem live in a town called Maycomb. The town of Maycomb is a small neighborhood where everybody knows everybody. But every town has its peculiarities. Down the street from Scout and her family, there is another family known as the Radley’s.

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In the last few chapters, Scout finally saw the real Boo, and he saved her and Jem from Bob Ewell. Boo is transformed from a monster into a human being. He appeared as a hero at the last minute. This makes Scout feels very guilty in her mind that she had never done anything to him. She thought innocently, “We never put back into the tree what we took out of it; we had given him nothing, and it made me sad” (373).

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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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In Maycomb, rumors that are spread compare him to a creature, a stalker, and a criminal of the town, saying "went out at night when the moon was out, peeped in windows, and committed small crimes throughout Maycomb", Miss Stephanie Crawford most likely being the one to spread them. Many of the rumors like these come from the fact that the town does not see much of him ever, he is much like a recluse, which the town fails to understand. Ms. Crawford is also mostly responsible for this rumor in particular, as she claimed to have seen Boo Radley in her window, some night, which is probably wasn't true to begin with. To continue, many of the prejudices in the novel, like this one, come from a lack of understanding and the willingness of the town to their minds up about who Boo is when they truly have no clue. Along with the fact that these rumors spread from a lack of knowledge, the children of the town pick up on the comments and rumors made about Boo.

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