...Justin Houge Due Date: Tuesday 6th Journal 2 I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and I am on page 42. This book is about a girl named Scout and her brother named Jem that is just starting school and is afraid of there neighbor. In this journal I will be predicting and evaluating. G predict kids will not meet Boo Y locked up R gang R stab R family secluded Y scared R looks R run house R stories about him G won’t meet cause locked up and scared I think that the kids will not meet Boo because he was part of this gang. Also his gang did very little things but it was enough to be discussed by the town of Maycomb. The next thing I think the kids will not meet Boo is that he stabbed both of his parents in the leg. But that was not it after he stabbed his parents he started wiping them with his pants. But after that incident his family started to secluded him by keeping him out of sight. His parents also kept chained to the bed most of the time. They were also scared of his looks by describing his head as a skull. They also were scared of his hands being blood stand from...
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...of such would be Arthur (Boo) Radley in the book To Kill A Mockingbird. Boo Radley is a secluded mysterious figure who never comes out of his house. Scout and Jem (who are young children) are fascinated with the stories and rumors of Boo radley and hope to meet him one day. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee represents the theme that rumors do not define a person through Arthur (Boo) Radley and his relationship with Atticus’s children (Scout and Jem) and how their relationship changes from the beginning to the end of the book. An example of Harper Lee using this theme would be at the beginning of the book. During the summer, in a small town called Maycomb, Scout and Jem meet a new...
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...I predict that Jem and Scout will not get to meet Boo Radley. Boo Radley has been locked in his house for over 15 years. He was sent to be locked in the house because they did not give him jail time. He went to court and they jus decided to lock him up in the basement of the court house. Then when it was time for him to be taken out of the basement so they sent him home to be locked up there. Boo had to go to court because he stabbed his father in the leg with a scissors. That is the main story on why all the children are scared of him. But there is also his physical description, the man is six and a half feet tall, he has yellow and rotten teeth, and blood stained hands from dinning on raw squirrels and any cat he could catch. He had a long...
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...Boo Radley. who is he? what is he? what have the children done to him? what has he become through the children thoughts? In the novel To kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the children disclose Boo Radley as a monster that withholds his life from the outer world. Jem received the information from Miss Stephanie saying the story of Boo Radley “Boo was sitting in the living-room cutting some items from the Maycomb Tribune to paste in his scrapbook. His father entered the room. As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulling them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities”(13) When boo was doing his scrapbooking he had an accident with his father and he didn't react, he just wiped it and continued....
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...court uses pity for Mayella as an excuse to believe her. Atticus again explains, “She is the victim of cruel poverty and ignorance, but I cannot pity her: she is white. She knew full well the enormity of her offence” (Lee 272). Atticus is explaining the huge advantage white people have against Negroes, and Mayella uses that as her defense. Common stereotypes are used in the final decision of a case that is so uncommon no one knows what to do. Every single person at the courthouse knows that Tom Robinson is innocent, but he’s found guilty. The only crime he commits is being black. Finally, towards the end of his case, Tom displays his understanding of the stereotypes about Negroes. When Tom is accused of being scared to admit what he’d done, he responds, “No suh, scared I’d hafta face up to what I didn’t do” (Lee 265). Tom knew full well that he would be accused because of his race, showing that the judgments were already affecting his opinion of himself before the case. Stereotypes cause inequality and injustices everyday, and it...
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...learned to be more sympathetic and compassionate because Mrs. Dubose showed extreme strength. Scout finally discovered Mrs. Dubose’s point of view and this was crucial in Scout gaining more compassion. Another influential woman in Scout’s life was Miss. Maudie. Once Scout accepts Boo, she is finally able to comprehend her father’s lesson of stepping in someone else’s shoes to understand their perspective. Boo Radley was always known as a mystery. He was the blood thirsty monster at the end of the street. Everyone would try to avoid the Radley house as they thought he was a monster. However, Miss Maudie's description of Boo was different from the rest of the neighbors and the children's. Miss Maudie even calls Boo by his first name, Arthur. She said, “ That is a sad house. I remember Arthur Radley when he was a boy. He always spoke nicely to me, no matter what folks said he did. Spoke as nicely as he knew how.”(Lee 61) The compassion that Mrs.Maudie showed to humanize Arthur changed Scout's perspective. This in turn helped Scout grow into a compassionate person. Towards the end of the novel Scout walked Boo home but pretended for the benefit of any on lookers to be escorted by Boo. Boo was scared and wanted someone to walk him home, as he's been isolated in his house with just a view from the little window by the porch. When Scout gets to the porch and goes to turn around after dropping Arthur off, she realizes Arthur's been watching her for the majority of her life, behind...
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...Boo Radley is the next door neighbor. He is very reclusive and doesn’t ever leave the house. The only reason people know he is still alive is because no one has seen him carried out of the house. Even though he is reclusive, he is still very kind. One night, Miss Maudie, another neighbor to the Finch’s, has a house fire. While the people in the neighborhood are trying to get her furniture out and save as much as they can from the fire. The Finch kids go stand on the curb in front of Boo Radley’s house and watch their father help. Jem and Scout, the Finch kids, are shivering because they are so cold. When they get back inside after all of the commotion, Scout has a blanket with her and she doesn’t know where it came from. “I looked down and found myself clutching a brown woolen blanket I was wearing around my shoulders, squaw-fashion,” said Scout. (Lee, 81) She tells her father she has never seen it before and they come to realize that they saw everyone at the fire helping except for Boo Radley. He was the only one that could have put it around her. At the end of the book, Boo Radley comes into a major scene and shows a lot of courage. The kids are walking home from a Halloween pageant in the dark and they hear footsteps following them. They thought it was one of their...
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...She was so scared of the Radley house from hearing all the stories, and ended up not being scared of it anymore because nothing happened.When school started up again Scout and Jem walked by the Radley place everyday “The Radley place had ceased to terrify me”(Lee,324). Scout walks by it everyday, and because nothing has happened when they walk by it, it doesn’t scare her anymore. She learns to get over her fears, and not listen to stories that other people tell her. Scout started feeling bad for Boo and always thinking the worst of him when she didn’t even know him. “We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad” (Lee,373). This quote shows that Scout took those things from the tree, and now that she has met Boo she feels bad she didn’t give them back to him, because he saved their lives and they gave him nothing in return. She understands people and feel bad for them and isn't a child anymore because she shows Boo she acts more like an adult, by helping escort him to his...
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...Harper Lee, Lee reveals Scout's empathetic tone toward Boo Radley through details and diction. Throughout the novel Boo protects Scout frequently(Pattern A). Toward the end of the novel(pattern B) Boo saves Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell and Boo brought them back to their house, Lee uses diction to describe Scouts tone toward Boo. “I looked from his hands to his sand-stained khaki pants; my eyes traveled up his thin frame to his torn denim shirt” (270). This quote talks about how his clothes are torn and stained. This could make someone, like Scout, feel empathetic because his clothes got ruined by protecting the kids like he has done many times before. In some cases words like “torn” and “sand-stained” might give off a negative tone but in this...
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...reaching tolerance. Atticus believes that part of the reason why there is prejudice is because people don't understand each other. However, many people in Maycomb are misunderstood, avoided, or discriminated by the town people, including Boo Radley, the Ewells, and all black people. Atticus like a father teaches these words to Scout and Jem. In the middle of the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus decides to take on a case involving a black man named Tom Robinson who has been accused of raping a very poor white girl named Mayella Ewell one of the children of the unresponsible Ewell family who most of Maycomb society that people call "trash." The Finch family faces harsh criticism in...
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...Branching Out In Silence In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s use of the Radley's tree as a symbol shows the communication Boo Radley had with Maycomb county and its citizens. One way Lee symbolizes the communication Boo has with the coFunty is by the spreading of the trees’s roots. When Scout is describing the scenery she says, “Two live oaks stood at the edge of the Radley log; their roots reached out into the side-road and made it bumpy” (Lee 33). In this quotation when Scout says that “the roots reach out into the side-road”, this expresses Boo Radley’s want to reach out to the community because he feels isolated. The fact that the tree roots are showing proves that the children are more in contact with Boo Radley. This also...
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...To Kill a Mockingbird, was written by Harper Lee who grew up in the racist South during the Great Depression. Influential to her novel, it takes place in Maycomb County, Alabama during the same time period. Scout, a young tomboyish girl, narrates the story of a trial. Atticus Finch, her and her brother Jem’s widowed father, is the defense lawyer for Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white girl. In Maycomb, opinions rumors spread like fire and the town is quick to construct opinions about those who are different. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Mr. Dolphus Raymond, to prove that societal judgment makes people perceive outcasts as monsters. To begin, as an outcast, Boo Radley is visualized as...
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...To Kill A Mockingbird Out of the Radleys, Boo enhances the story To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee the most. He’s very easily judged by most people who see him, because he appears scary and so different to everyone. To Kill A Mockingbird is set in a town called Maycomb, Alabama, where prejudice is very common. Prejudice is shown by how people treat Boo Radley so horribly. The kids although, are extremely facinated with him. This lets readers know his story is important throughout the whole book. Rumors about the Radleys are always flying through town, mostly they’re all about Boo. He’s described as a monster, “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” (Harper Lee 13). When Boo was younger, he killed his dad. Before this happened, Boo was an intelligent kid. His dad though was very cruel and caused Boo to be emotionally damaged. This makes Boo Radley one of the mockingbirds in the story, also making readers understand as to why...
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...Her brother, Jem, invites the boy to have lunch at their house. While he’s their Scout makes fun of his poor table manners. Calpurnia, the negro maid, reprimands Scout, "'You never really understand a person . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.'" , calpurnia then forces Scout to eat the rest of her lunch in the kitchen. Scouts grade gets out earlier than Jem’s so she has to pass by Boo Radley's house by herself. One day she noticed something shiny near the big tree by his house, it was a stick of gum. Jem scolds her for taking the gum but Scout checks the hole daily and on the last day of school she finds coins. A couple days later a friend of jem and Scout’s returns to Maycomb. Scout gets in a fight with the boy but walks off to cool down, while scout is gone Jem decides to make up a game to prove his bravery, it’s called Boo Radley, Jem proves his bravery by running up to the house and touching...
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...Harper Lee uses Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell and Boo Radley as human “mockingbirds” to contribute to the overall theme of innocence. The first character Harper Lee uses is Tom Robinson.Tom Robinson is an poor black man with an wife and three children. He is 25 years old and is known as a respectable kind young man. His left hand was crippled and caught in a cotton gin when he was a young boy. In the begin, Lee uses Tom Robinson as a mockingbird because he was innocent man who was accused of raping a young woman named Mayella Ewell.And he was shot seventeen times.Atticus...
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