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To Kill A Mockingbird The World Is Not Fair Analysis

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The world is not fair. In To Kill a Mockingbird, we see Scout Finch struggling to cope with this realization. Set in the South of America in the 1930’s, Scout describes her feelings as she exposed to the real world that was hidden from her when she was a child. Scout first sees a young boy from an unstable home, then witnesses the false conviction of a Black man her father is defending and at the end of the book sees that a man who she thought was a monster was actually good. As Scout grows up she has trouble understanding why Maycomb is full of prejudice and racism towards certain people. The three main characters, Dill Harris, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley represent mockingbirds, prejudiced against because of their innocence. Dill is matures …show more content…

Boo is the source of gossip for Myacomb. To the children he is a “malevolent phantom” and to the adults he is a dangerous man. The children are under the impression that Boo is a scary monster, trapped in his house with his brother, Nathan Radley. Because he keeps to himself and stays inside the Radley house, he is shunned from the rest of Maycomb. The children look at Boo in fear and curiosity and make up stories and games portraying what they think goes on in the mind of Boo Radley. One day Scout sees a knothole filled with goodies, like pennies and gum and quickly takes them and shows them to Jem. Scout and Jem discover Boo Radley is leaving presents for them, trying to build a friendship. A week later Jem cries because Nathan Radley fills Boo’s only connection to the outside world with cement, the knothole. Scout and Jem do not realize that all Boo wants is freedom, freedom of his reputation and freedom from the Radley house. After Boo proves his good intentions again by saving Scout and Jem from Bob Ewell, Scout walks him home, and thinks, “ '...If Miss Stephanie Crawford was watching from her upstairs window, she would see Arthur Radley escorting me down the sidewalk, as any gentleman would do" ( Lee 148). This was the first time in the book where Scout sees that Boo is just a simple man who wants to do

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