Essay On Boo Radley's Relationship In To Kill A Mockingbird

They grow to be evil and brooding depending on their circumstances, the situations that they have been put through, and the choices they make during them. People also need a guide, or friend to help them stay on the good side, never leading them into wrongdoing. This is shown in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies , as the boys’ push through terrible obstacles, and the task to survive. Golding shows amazingly accurate character development throughout the book as they boys have to change to fit these new affairs.

To Kill A Mockingbird has always been looked upon as an instant classic because of its very important themes dealing with race during the 1930 's Alabama, a time where racism was rampant all across the United States especially in the southern states. The film itself, based on the popular and timely novel by Harper Lee, was released in 1962 which was during the civil rights movement. Some critics called this film an innocent film because of the time it was released. It was released back when people were more relaxed, but in the fifty years since then, society has gotten more uptight due to everything that has been going on. Despite a loss of innocence, this is a fantastic movie that has very important themes, even by today 's standards.

Layla was playing with her old friends and talking to her new friends at her new school all the time. Several years later, when it was finally Layla’s time to become the leader of the village, she was back to her dark spotted self. She earned the respect of almost all of the villagers. Layla was smart and one of the best leaders the village had ever seen. She took actions against the bullying in the village and threw the bugs who made people’s spots fade into jail including her fake friends and their parents who tried to take the village back from Layla’s family.

Both Boo and Tom are very compassionate and caring men. Because Boo cares so much for Jem and Scout, he risks his life to save theirs. He comes out of his home which is very hard for him and fights Bob Ewell who has a knife to make sure Jem and Scout stay safe. Tom is also a caring man. He knew he should not help Mayella but his concern for her happiness was more important than the potential consequences.

Violence is seen throughout the books at unexpected times. The first seen was when Scout, and Jem wanted to scare Boo Radley from his house. There was gun shouts, and the children had to run to safety. Another event was when Boo Radley was in jail awaiting his sentence, a crowd gathered to make a scene, and stir up trouble. Another example of Violence was when Jem and Scout were walking back from their school Halloween Pageant, and Bob attacked Jem.

I tripped as I heard the shotgun blast behind me (Lee 71). In this quote Jem, Scout, and Dill were trying to see Boo. They went up to his house and were looking in windows when they saw a shadow and ran and the person shot at them. Later it is known that it was Mr. Radley that shot at them, claiming he was shooting at what he thought was a negro in his yard. Secondly, another time the kids really wanted to see Boo, was when they discovered the gifts in the tree.

He was appointed to defend a black man named Tom Robinson for raping Mayella Ewell. Most townsfolk caught news of this and instantly began to give Atticus dirty looks and began calling him vulgar names. Atticus, is a very nice person who wants to do the right thing, and he has an opinion about people who disagree with him defending Tom Robinson. “They’re certainly entitled to think they, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions.” (120).

Harper Lee considers her book To Kill a Mockingbird, to be a love story. There are many times during this book that this unique love is shown. The love and respect of your fellow man is a recurrent theme throughout this novel. Like with the incident with Mrs. Dubose and another incident with Walter Cunningham. When Scout beats up Walter Cunningham, Jem showed love to him by offering him to eat dinner with them as an apology for Scout beating him up and to show love and respect, knowing he was hungry, and knowing he would come.

“Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control” ("Steven Pinker Quote")These words spoken by Steven Pinker are hundred percent true. To Kill a Mockingbird’s empathy theme is still relevant today, because it can be found in events such as Sandy Hooks Elementary School and in a Poem named I Have Empathy For You. All the rumors that were going around maycomb about Boo Radley and all the people that were afraid of him, Scout and Jem were like the only people that did not judge him.

Boo Radley showed his true colors when he saved Jem and Scout from Mr.Ewell. Boo Radley overlooked his own fears to save the lives of his friends. Boo Radley also brought out the best in Jem and Scout Finch by making them climb out of their comfort zone to solve a mystery. After a few days, the siblings did not want to believe the town’s opinions about Boo Radley because they believed there was something that was missing from the story. So, the children put aside their own fears in their attempts to contact Boo and initiate a friendship.

Franz Kafka said: “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old”. In both the Novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, and the film “Pleasantville”, the youth was much more accepting of change. The children in both the novel and the film are very open-minded and do not understand the grimy side of the world they live in.

Sadly, our foolproof plan wasn’t foolproof. We heard a gunshot from nearby when we was on the Radley’s back porch. After that we ran like heck back to the Finch’s place. Next thing I knew, I was off to my parents house, so our group dream was put on hold. Though I made a secret pact with Jem the night I was supposed to leave.

The behavior consisted of uncontrollable fits and screaming. After the community found out about the first diagnosis, everyone was afraid of the people and their family because they thought they would catch whatever they had. Not much later, the first witch was hung. Her name was Bridget Bishop. She was hung in June, 8-days after she was convicted.

Is a character’s first opinion on someone the opinion they keep throughout the book? Often a character’s opinion on someone else changes as the story progresses or the character ages and matures. This is seen with the characters Jem and Scout Finch in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. In this book in follows the main character Scout, along with her brother, as they grow up in a small town in the South during the 1930s. As they get older, they start to experience that not everyone is like them or thinks like them.

To Kill A Mockingbird: Realities can be Masked by Rumors In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, one of the major themes resides in the fact that while people come and go, rumors last forever. Dill, one of the characters in this novel, has a sudden and profound realization which embodies this idea: "I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time... It's because he wants to stay inside" (227).