Jem has become one of my all time favorite characters. When talking to Scout, Jem said, “If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?...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” (Lee 304). As I read this, I was upset. In my opinion, Jem is too young to think that it’s better to be locked in your house instead of live because of the people in an environment. I feel people should be able to go outside and be happy with their surroundings. They should be happy with the way the people around them treat each other. I don’t think that there is just
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Understandably, when I saw that Atticus told his sister that “Tom's dead”, I started to cry (Lee 315). My feelings were lowered to the point where I had to stop reading and begin again the next day. An innocent man was killed. Even if what the officers said was true and Tom did try to run away from prison, the jury and the people of Maycomb were the reason he lost hope in the judicial system and felt he had to take matters into his own hands by escaping. I was upset because the people of Maycomb couldn’t look past stereotypes and think for themselves. If they did, Tom Robinson wouldn’t have been in jail and would have never been shot and killed. Now his wife is a widow and his three children are fatherless. It’s a chain of events that could have been avoided by gifts of sensibility and compassion. I feel people need more of …show more content…
Not only did he help the children physically, but he helped mold Scout’s way of thinking. In a daze, Scout tells a story about a man by saying, “when they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things...he was real nice” (Lee 376). Atticus responded with, “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them” (Lee 376). Boo Radley was accused of attempting to kill his parents, but he saved Scout and Jem from a drunk, grown man. He hid away in his house. He allowed all of these rumors to be made through the curiosity of his neighbors. As I read this I realized that people are going to make assumptions. Most times they’ll be wrong. I get to choose whether or not to believe them. I’ve decided to choose to make my own observations once I truly meet the
Understandably, when I saw that Atticus told his sister that “Tom's dead”, I started to cry (Lee 315). My feelings were lowered to the point where I had to stop reading and begin again the next day. An innocent man was killed. Even if what the officers said was true and Tom did try to run away from prison, the jury and the people of Maycomb were the reason he lost hope in the judicial system and felt he had to take matters into his own hands by escaping. I was upset because the people of Maycomb couldn’t look past stereotypes and think for themselves. If they did, Tom Robinson wouldn’t have been in jail and would have never been shot and killed. Now his wife is a widow and his three children are fatherless. It’s a chain of events that could have been avoided by gifts of sensibility and compassion. I feel people need more of …show more content…
Not only did he help the children physically, but he helped mold Scout’s way of thinking. In a daze, Scout tells a story about a man by saying, “when they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things...he was real nice” (Lee 376). Atticus responded with, “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them” (Lee 376). Boo Radley was accused of attempting to kill his parents, but he saved Scout and Jem from a drunk, grown man. He hid away in his house. He allowed all of these rumors to be made through the curiosity of his neighbors. As I read this I realized that people are going to make assumptions. Most times they’ll be wrong. I get to choose whether or not to believe them. I’ve decided to choose to make my own observations once I truly meet the