Boo Radley Trial

I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I finished reading the novel. This section of the book is about the aftermath of the trial. Aunt Alexandria hosted another missionary circle, which Scout sat in on. Atticus interrupted the meeting, and asked if he could borrow Calpurnia. He wanted Cal to help break the news to Helen Robinson that Tom had been killed trying to escape from the prison. The town concludes this is typical for an African American, but then they forget about it after two days. School starts again in September, and Scout realizes that the Radley house is not as scary as it used to be. She also matures by questioning how her teacher can conclude that Hitler’s conviction of Jews is terrible, but not understand that …show more content…
Dr. Reynolds and Heck Tate are called to the Finch household, and they determine that Jem has a broken arm and Bob Ewell was the attacker, respectively. Bob was killed by a knife to his abdomen, but the official statement will be that he fell on the knife. This would be portrayed as the truth to protect Boo Radley, the children’s defender, from unnecessary attention. When Scout brings Boo home, she realizes his point of view and why he did what he did. She walked in his shoes. In this journal I will be evaluating. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the characters Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are both symbolized by a mockingbird. The fictitious individual Miss Maudie elucidated that “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy… They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us” (Lee 119). Boo is a mockingbird in the sense that he does not do anything to bother the town, yet they still shame him because he is not similar to the other white inhabitants of Maycomb. It is hinted at in the novel that Boo stays isolated because he is mentally unstable. Rumors are spread about Boo as to why he remains unseen, which includes that he is a malevolent figure who eats