What Is Dill's Role In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a book containing many different themes which make the story different and debatable. The actions of the people that live there revolve around these themes, and it’s not hard to notice that almost everyone, especially the adults, act the same way and have the same standards and values. This is what unifies these people. But, these values and standards aren’t as decent as someone might think, as they are based on gender and family relations and race discrimination. This is how everyone thinks, but there are people which stand out of the crowd and go against these ideas, such as Atticus, Jem and etc. And one of them is Dill. Dill is a character which goes against the normal values of society, and it could even be said that his actions show that he’s the complete opposite of this corrupt county. This is what makes him an important figure in the novel.

(216) being a clown, as most would know, is about making others laugh and letting people have a great time while you act in a stupid manner. But, Dill sees the idea of being a clown from a different perspective – “I’m gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks” (216). His dissatisfaction with his situation led him to the idea of a clown laughing at everyone else, not him being laughed at. This vision of a clown is obviously different, which proves the point that Dill belongs to the minority of people which are against Maycomb’s unjust views and standards. At that moment he was talking about the trial, about it’s outcome. This was the thing that upset him. He thought of it as unjustified and wrong. He disliked society’s twisted morality. This also suggests his importance to the novel as a character, which might not seem so obvious at