To Kill A Mockingbird Gift Analysis

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“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between.” (Lee ###). Arthur Radley gave Jem and Scout many gifts they were happy to have received. These gifts played a role in the novel that is applicable mostly to Scout. However, she believed that her and her brother had not given back to Arthur what they had taken. The reader, however, discovers that she is wrong, that they had given him many things more valuable than gifts. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird a valuable lesson is learned through gifts receive, their meaning, and giving in return. In Lee’s novel Scout and Jem have a strong fascination with the mysterious Boo Radley. He had not been seen in many years and never
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Had Jem and Scout not found them, there would be no lesson learned. The Finch kids, and their friend Dill, had many adventures involving the Radley family. They act out plays of the Radley household, created from the knowledge obtained through the adults of Maycomb County, Alabama. They held secret missions attempting to get even a glimpse of Boo. They strove to befriend him and assure him that they meant no harm. He gave them curiosity. Jem eventually grows out of his curiosity, but Scout does not. She has this curiosity in a man no one else cares about, an outcast. She is too young and too innocent to fall into the close minded ideas of the adults. Scout has a certain fantasy surrounding Boo. Scout …show more content…
There was a certain importance surrounding Boo Radley, he was the key to the entire unfolding of the novel. He saved Jem and Scouts lives and gives them many more things. The reader can see that this novel begins and ends with Mr.Arthur Radley. Through his actions the lesson was learned that giving is not always through actual gifts. You can give in the simplest way as bringing someone true joy just as Scout and Jem

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