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To Kill A Mockingbird Thoughtfulness Quotes

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Don’t judge a book by its cover because the cover does not show the full story. In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is a coming-to-age fiction novel that takes place in Maycomb, Alabama and is narrated by a girl named Scout and her Lawyer father Atticus. At the Radley tree in Chapter 7, Scout, and Jem learn that Boo Radley is trying to get out to the kids that helps Jem to come to the age that involves them understanding what’s going on. The setting of the Radley tree highlights thoughtfulness as Jem wants to thank, Boo Radley by writing a letter for all the gifts that are in the knothole. As Scout was telling Jem, “...That’d be right nice, Jem, we can thank’em”. The quote states that thanking someone shows thoughtfulness …show more content…

The tree was seriously important to the kids. After Jem and Scout figure out that their knothole was plugged, Nathan Radley explained “...Tree’s dyin. You plug’em with cement”. The quote states that Nathan Radley plugged up the tree because it was dying, but it could be that he did not want the kids to figure out something. Nathan Radley could be hiding something from the kids that he doesn’t want them to know. Scout was upset when they figured out that the knothole was plugged, and as a good brother. As Jem is, he told her “Don’t you cry, now, Scout… don’t cry.” The quote shows that the tree was very important to Jem and Scout because of the gifts and them sending the letter trying to communicate to Boo Radley. If the tree was not plugged with cement, Jem and Scout would eventually sent the letter to whom that were sending the gifts.The happening at the Radley tree was a tragic lost for Jem and Scout from all the gifts they’re getting, but there’s a meaning to the Radley tree. The theme of the Radley tree states that never judge someone by rumors because that one description of that person might not be true. As Scout and Jem explaining about the letter, “How do you know it’s a man?”. The quote states the person could be a woman but don’t stay on that one statement of who the person could be. Scout thought it was Miss Maudie that was sending out to Jem,

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After his adventures at the Radley house Jem is in a bad mood for a week, and then the children go back to school. Scout starts second grade which is apparently just as bad as first grade and Jem tells Scout that he was freaked out after retrieving his pants from the Radley home because they were mended badly and were sitting on top of the fence instead of being where he had left them. A few days later on their way home Jem and Scout see a ball of twine in a knothole of a tree on the Radley proper, however they leave it there thinking that the knothole may be someone 's secret hiding place. When it is still there a few days later they decide it is okay to take the twine and consequently several other things left inside the tree. Over the next

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I have two questions. Who is placing the items in the tree and who are the items meant for? I think that Nathan Radley or Boo Radley are placing the items in the knothole. First, I think it could be Nathan because the person putting the items in the tree had to be an adult. No children go by the tree except for Scout and Jem because the tree is by the Radley house and all of the other kids are scared of the Radleys.

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They found soap pieces in the whole of the tree and they were shaped like them Mr. Radley put cement in the whole of the tree because it was dying but they asked atticus and he said it wasn’t dying. Jem cries at the end of the chapter. Scout does not tell why.

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The hole in the tree that Jem and Scout had found various things in was covered up by Mr. Nathan Radley, the children saw him cement the tree in the movie, but did not in the book. The book portrays Jem going back later in the night to claim his pants that he had lost earlier in the day when he tried to get away from the Radley lot. The movie however shows that Jem goes back right after he lost them. Mr. Radley comes out to scare the children away with

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The book To Kill A Mockingbird, is about social issues through the eyes of a little girl, Scout finch. The book takes place in the dead town of Macomb county where life is so boring the main source of entertainment to the youth and elderly is the mysterious family the Radleys. The Radleys live in a creepy house with all sorts of legends the son, Boo Radley gets specific attention for not leaving the house, rumors of him are told such as, he’s a killer who roams the night and eats cats when in reality he is just a victim to an

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In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee uses the motif of Boo Radley and finding gifts in the tree to teach Jem and Scout that they shouldn’t blindly believe the rumors they hear but find out the truth for themselves and form impressions based on it. Scout and Jem find gifts in the knothole of a tree on the Radley lot, presumably left by Boo Radley. Mr. Radley, Boo’s brother ends up plugging the knothole with cement, claiming the tree is dying. Jem stays outside on the porch until sundown after he finds out that the knothole has been blocked. When Jem comes inside, Scout comments to herself, “ [Jem] stood there until nightfall, and I waited for him.

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He first put a piece of gum in the hole. Scout was the one to notice it first. So she told Jem and Jem never really believe her until they found more gifts in it, like two Indian Head pennies or two soaps with a girl and boy carved into them. Jem and Scout wrote a letter to the person leaving them these wonderful gifts, but they couldn’t put the letter in the hole because Nathan Radley poured cement in the hole to stop the exchanges of gifts. That was one way Boo cared for Jem and Scout or created that father/children relationship.

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In Chapter 4 of To Kill a Mockingbird Jem and Scout find several things in the knot-hole of the old oak tree on the Radley house. The children are very curious about who left these things there. Later in the book they realize that it is Boo Radley is leaving the gifts. He is trying to show them his affection for them. Throughout the novel Jem and scout find 2 sticks of gum, a pack of gum, 2 old Indian head coins, gray twine, soap figures carved to like Jem and Scout, old spelling bee medals and an old watch on a chain and an aluminum knife.

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Throughout the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” written by Harper Lee, the readers can see how Scout changes her view about Boo Radley. Because of their nosiness, Jem, Scout, and Dill try to drag Boo out his house and to the outside world. Their innocent actions combined with Boo’s actions changed the image of Boo, in their minds, from “a malevolent phantom” (10), a person who kills cats and eats squirrels to a neighbor they can trust, who saves them from Bob Ewell. Scout says at the end, “Boo was our neighbor” (373). The readers can see a great change in their relationship.

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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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… When we went in the house I saw he had been crying...” (pg 71) Scout and Jem had been finding items in a tree knot, and Mr. Radley filled the knot with cement. Jem realizes that Boo Radley had been leaving items in the

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Misunderstood and isolated from society, Boo Radley becomes hateful and gossip spread by those of his community, forced to live in confinement, isolated and hidden from society. Despite his Boo’s reclusive nature, Boo Radley illustrates acts of kindness towards Scout and Jem, such as leaving them gifts in the hole of a tree for them to find and look past all the rumors. Through Boo Radley's character, Harper Lee emphasizes the utmost importance of looking past stereotypes and appearances of people and to empathize with others,and their own trauma. Boo Radley's story stimulates the reader to question their own preconceived notions about characters and consider the impact of empathy on individuals’

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Compassion and forgiveness is not something everyone gives but is something you should give to everyone. Even when they don’t deserve it. Compassion and forgiveness is a theme in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee when Atticus tells Scout not to be angry at the people who are against him, when he defends Bob Ewell’s behavior after the Tom Robinson case, and when Scout saw the world in Boo Radley’s shoes. And in real life, when a woman pardoned a man on the gallows, before he was hung, even though he murdered her son, and a woman forgave two boys that pushed a cart over a railing onto her, causing many injuries When word goes around about Atticus’s decision to try to defend Tom Robinson, Scout becomes irked by everyone who mocks Atticus for defending Tom Robinson. Atticus tells her, “It’s different this time [...]

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Option 2 Literary Analysis To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel set during the 1930s in a small town in Southern Alabama called Maycomb. The story is told through the narrator, Scout, a young girl who lives with her father, a lawyer, and her older brother Jem. As a child, Scout is portrayed as a stubborn and obnoxious little girl who loves to read, play with her brother Jem, and fantasize about her mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. However, her life gets turned upside down when Scout’s father agrees to do something that is deemed unacceptable in the south; he agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who is accused of raping a white girl. Instantly, Atticus and his family go from being respected and beloved by their town, to being

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Decide how the relationship between Scout and Boo Radley evolves providing sufficient evidence In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Scout develops a strange relationship with a mysterious character, Boo Radley. Scout, Jem, and Dill are interested in Boo Radley because of the mystery that dominates around him and the Radley house. The town people poorly judge Boo Radley and hearing stories from Miss Stephanie Crawford frightens Scout and Jem. Although the relationship starts out as fear and mystery, as time passes, Scout begins to realize that Boo isn’t the monster they described him as, he is rather a nice and caring person.

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