The Importance of Gifts Giving gifts to one another is a great way to express your feelings. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird many gifts were given both tangible and intangible. All of the gifts in the book are important to the story in some way. Many of the the gifts are given by either Boo Radley or Atticus Finch. They both play an important part in Scout and Jem’s childhood. The gifts that both Boo and Atticus give to the children help them to learn new things and grow. Even though the children didn’t meet Boo Radley face to face until the very end of the book, he still managed to give them small gifts throughout the whole story. At the beginning of the book, Scout and Jem found a knothole in a tree by the Radley house that Boo was
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Atticus Finch also gave them many special gifts. The first gift he gave them was life lessons. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (39). Atticus taught Jem and Scout that it’s not fair to judge a person until you understand them and what they’re going through. That lesson is very important, but it isn’t the only gift Atticus gave his children. He also gave them the gift of love. Even though he doesn’t always say, “I love you,” to Jem and Scout, Atticus has others ways of showing his love and compassion to his children. One way is when he reads to Scout every night. “I could not remember when the lines above Atticus’s moving finger separated into words, but I stared at them all of the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day...anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night” (23). This is an example of Atticus showing his love for Scout because he takes the time to read to her every night, even though he is very busy with his work.
Overall, Harper Lee did a great job of incorporating many gifts both tangible and intangible into her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. Both Boo Radley and Atticus Finch gave many important gifts to Jem and Scout. These included the tangible gifts of gum and a blanket, and also the intangible gifts of life, life lessons and love. All of these gifts played an important role in the
Atticus Finch also gave them many special gifts. The first gift he gave them was life lessons. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (39). Atticus taught Jem and Scout that it’s not fair to judge a person until you understand them and what they’re going through. That lesson is very important, but it isn’t the only gift Atticus gave his children. He also gave them the gift of love. Even though he doesn’t always say, “I love you,” to Jem and Scout, Atticus has others ways of showing his love and compassion to his children. One way is when he reads to Scout every night. “I could not remember when the lines above Atticus’s moving finger separated into words, but I stared at them all of the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day...anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night” (23). This is an example of Atticus showing his love for Scout because he takes the time to read to her every night, even though he is very busy with his work.
Overall, Harper Lee did a great job of incorporating many gifts both tangible and intangible into her novel, To Kill A Mockingbird. Both Boo Radley and Atticus Finch gave many important gifts to Jem and Scout. These included the tangible gifts of gum and a blanket, and also the intangible gifts of life, life lessons and love. All of these gifts played an important role in the