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What Does Boo Radley Represent In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In the book To Kill A Mockingbird there are lots of characters that represent a mockingbird. In this essay there will be three main characters being described and talked about. These characters are Boo Radly, Scout, and Jem. They say it is a sin to kill a mockingbird because they do not do anything bad and they only sing for everyone. Boo Radley is a man in To Kill A Mockingbird who represents a mockingbird very well. He lives in a state of solitude in a house where nobody ever sees him. His house is hits in the middle of the neighborhood where he can see everything that happens. In the book, Boo has watched Scout and Jem grow up from little kids to more mature older kids. When Jem and Scout are walking home from the pageant Bob …show more content…

She lives with her dad (Atticus), the maid that takes her mothers place (Calpurnia), and her brother (Jem). Scout represents a mockingbird by having innocence. In this story, Scout grows up from a little girl to a more mature and older girl. She learns a lot throughout the story. One thing that tells us how she represents a mockingbird is when her dad is protecting someone in jail. Atticus is sitting outside a jail and Tom Robinson is in the jail. While Scout, Jem, and Dill are hiding behind a bush some people come up and try to get to Tom. Once the people start talking to Atticus Scout runs up and says hi to her dad. Scout recognizes a kid from her school's dad. She says hi, asks about his son, and then tells him to say hi to him for her. After this they feel as if they cannot hurt her dad after this because of her innocence and care for her father shames the kids dad that goes to her …show more content…

Jem lives with Atticus, Calpurnia, and Scout. Jem represents a mockingbird by having innocence that he slowly loses small bits of. In this story, Jem grows up, gains intelligence, and throughout the story understands things better. There are a couple of things in this story that represent how Jem is like a mockingbird but one thing is what happens at court. In the case, Tom Robinson is being accused of hurting and raping a girl. Bob Edwell is the girl's father and Mmayella is the name of the girl. Tom is black and Bob is white. In this time blacks were not considered important and had no chance of winning a case. Everyone knows Bob is guilty but since Tom is black and Bob is white Tom will be accused of being guilty. Jem sees how bad segregation is and it makes him upset. He loses some innocence about how the real world is and this shows how he represents a

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