To Kill A Mockingbird Judgment Quotes

Judgment

In the novel,To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee tells a story of a young girl named Jean Louise Finch or otherwise known as Scout and her older brother Jem Finch during the great depression in an old town in Alabama called Maycomb. Alongside with their friend Dill, they become captivated with ideas to try to get a glance of their mysterious neighbor Boo Radley. Meanwhile Scout’s father, Atticus Finch, gets involved with defending Tom Robinson, a black man who is falsely accused for raped of Mayella Ewell. Since the story’s timeline is in the 1930’s, many people were judged based on their social status and their actions.Thus, Lee demonstrates the idea of how appearances deceive people from the real story Mrs.Dubose, Mr.Raymond,and

Even if Scout said hi, Mrs Dubose reply back, “Dont u say hey to me, you ugly girl! You say good afternoon, Mrs. Dubose!”(99). This led Jem and Scout to believe that she was just a old mean lady that did nothing but interrogated them and banter about. Moreover Mrs. Dubose statement about his father being, “no better than the niggers and trash he works for” (102) hit Jems nerve or patience. Yet after he came every afternoon after school and saturdays to read to her out loud for two hours” (105), who he realized was just really sick. The reason she had those nasty fits and abused them was because Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict that wanted to, “leave this world beholden to nothing and nobody” (111). Consequently this shows Mrs. Dubose false image since she wants to die free of her morphine addiction and that Jem and Scout help her break that

Though rumor has it that they Mr. and Mrs. Radley hide Boo from the town since now the Radley place consisted of , “rain-rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda;oak trees kept the sun away” (8). This asserts that everyone thought he was a bad guy because of his prison time. In addition, most of the children in Maycomb including Scout and Jem have assume for a fact that ,“ inside the house lived a malevolent phantom called Boo Radley”(8). This shows how rumors lie about his story since in the end he was actually just a nice guy as he saved Scout and Jem from Ewell's assault. This proves his symbol of goodness in him because of willingly came out of the house that he stayed in for 15 years. Even though the others neighbors never saw what was him, Scout finally realized that Boo was her neighbor and not some evil man. After all, despite all the pain he has endured from the people around him, Boo Radley interacted with the kids by giving them, “two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck pennies” (278). Overall, this shows how people don’t seem as long as you know how they feel when you put in their