Longtime Maycomb native, Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose has recently passed away. As it has been known, Mrs. Dubose has been sick for a long time due to her her severe morphine addiction. About a month before her passing, local lawyer Atticus Finch’s son Jem Finch was seen ruining Mrs/ Dubose’s flowers in her front yard, and every day after school had to go to her house with his younger sister Scout. From an insider is heard that Jem would read to her everyday right before she received her “medicine.” She was using Jem’s reading to help her get off her morphine addiction before she died by having him reading to her longer each day without his knowing.…
For instance, Mrs. Dubose was vicious and racist to Scout and Jem, yet she proved to be strong and courageous in her final days. At first, Scout and Jem bluntly hated her. When Mrs. Dubose said, “‘Your father’s is no better than the niggers and trash he works for!’”, the shot had gone home. Out of hurt and anger, Jem destroyed the old lady’s flower bushes. The punishment of reading to Mrs. Dubose every day was served.…
Besides being the sassiest, most disrespectful mutts who ever passesher way, we were told that it was quite a pity that our father had not remarried after our mother’s death. A lovelier lady than my mother never lived, she said, and it was heartbreaking the way that Atticus Finch let her kids run wild. I did not remember our mother, but Jem did- he would tell me about her sometimes and went livid when Mrs. Dubose shot us this message”. This quote proves that Mrs. Dubose is a mean and evil lady.…
Women had certain expectations to follow in society. Examples can be found in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Kathryn Stockett's The Help. Hilly from The Help had a large influence on other women. This character was very bossy, rude, and fake.…
Mrs.Dubose is very rude to Atticus’s children and calls Atticus bad names and Jem got very upset so he broke all of her flowers. Atticus explains to Jem:“She’s an old lady and she’s ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad”(133). When Mrs. Dubose is being disrespectful to Atticus and his children, he shows tolerance by accepting the bad names that she calls him and how she is being rude to his children.…
Doors are closed for all kinds of diseases, but opening one leads to empathy and understanding. Mrs. Dubose presents herself very differently indoors and outdoors because she hides her sickness. Whenever Jem and Scout pass by her house, she would be sitting on her porch, yelling at them and criticizing every little thing they say. She was dubbed “the meanest old woman who ever lived,” but when Scout eventually goes inside, she sees…
After Mrs. Dubose, a neighbor, calls Atticus a “nigger-lover” and Jem destroys her flowers, Atticus agrees to make Jem fix the damages, even though she has been rude to them. “Jem, she’s old and ill. You can’t hold her responsible for what she says and does” (105). This shows that Atticus knows Mrs. Dubose has been rude with his family, but instead, he understands that she acts without thinking since she’s old. Atticus doesn’t get angry at her, as some other person would.…
In the novel, Mrs. Dubose is a good example of courage. After Mrs. Dubose’s passing, Atticus tells Jem that Mrs. Dubose was able to let go of her morphine addiction before her passing, even though nobody would have blamed her for using it: “’Jem when you’re as sick as she was it’s alright to take anything to make it easier, but it wasn’t alright for her’” (148). Mrs. Dubose is not always very kind. She yells at the Finch family for just walking by her place.…
It’s hard to remove an ingrained piece of a person or community whose roots have gone so deep. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee describes a young girl’s and brother’s experience of growing up in a small, rural 1930’s Alabama town, and how they start to comprehend the negative values around them. Finally, the children see that not all is well in the world and that sometimes people just ignore an ugly truth because it’s too seemingly rigorous for one to fix. Pulling something up by the roots could mean many things, but in Harper Lee’s…
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s use of flowers as a symbol demonstrates different character identities throughout the story. One way Lee symbolizes character identities is through Miss Maudie's Azaleas. At the end of chapter eight Miss Maudie says, “Always wanted a smaller house, Jem Finch. Gives me more yard. Just think, I’ll have more room for my azaleas now” (73).…
Dubose, a frail old lady is surprisingly a very important foil to Jem throughout, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” “Don’t you say hey to me, you ugly girl! You say good afternoon, Mrs. Dubose!”(103). Mrs. Dubose said that after Scout and Jem were walking past her house one day and Scout said hello to her. Jem would never say that to someone, and that shows a difference between Mrs. Dubose and himself.…
Dubose as an evil, cranky, old lady until they are able to spend time with her and learn her secrets. The children thought Mrs. Dubose was incredibly rude, and they did not want to walk past her house because they “would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behavior, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing” (Lee 132). Mrs. Dubose judged the children, made rude remarks, and seemed completely heartless. She often insulted Scout for unlady like behavior, and she insulted Atticus, Scout and Jem’s father, for defending and supporting African Americans. It was not until Atticus forced Scout and Jem to read to Mrs. Dubose every day that the children learned Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict who was trying to get clean before she died.…
Dubose in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird teaches readers that no matter what brings them down, standing up for one another could make a whole society respect one another. Being truly empathetic often takes a lot of determination, patience, and courage. People like Atticus supported less fortunate people like Tom Robinson and Mrs. Dubose, during times they were treated harshly. However, no matter how many times their reputation was stabbed, they continued to endure their beliefs.…
When the three of us came to her house, Atticus would sweep off his hat, wave gallantly to her and say, 'Good evening, Mrs. Dubose! You look like a picture this evening. ’”(Lee 100.) Even though she was racist and downright disrespectful, Atticus still sees the good in her, fighting her addiction,…
“Don't say that to me you ugly girl! You say good afternoon Mrs. Dubose!” Mrs. Dubose is an explanation of Lee’s definition of courage, taking the form of bravery and…