Love blossoms like a flower. There are so many different ways and places for the flowers to prosper, just like how love is found in many quantities all around the world. Flowers are often hidden away, like in someone’s backyard where they can only be seen by a select few, just like how love is hidden from the view of some until they choose to open up their eyes a bit wider. After writing To Kill A Mockingbird (TKAM), the author, Harper Lee, when asked to describe her novel, portrayed it as “a love story, plain and simple.” After reading TKAM, a reader can infer that Lee didn’t refer to romantic love when she described her novel, but rather Scout and Jem’s love between siblings, or Atticus’s love of all people regardless of ethnicity. Three vibrant examples
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Boo Radley symbolically represents a mockingbird in the novel, and it contributes to the themes of love residing in TKAM. Heck Tate’s selfless love for all humans finally shows after Tate refuses to put Boo out in the limelight. The last chapter of Lee’s novel states, “‘When they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . ’ ‘Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them’” (Page 376, Chapter 31). The quote contributes to the theme of not harming innocent people. At the end of the story, Atticus’s one flaw is not being able to see the innocence of Boo Radley, and the harm making him testify would cause. The last few chapters of TKAM represent pillar 5 of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Essays of Nonviolence from 1958. Maria Popova’s analysis of the essays states, “Another basic point about agape is that it springs from the need of the other person - his need of belonging to the to the best in the human family…” Heck Tate was able to show that he understood the needs of Boo Radley, which prevented violence from both the community and the town of
Boo Radley symbolically represents a mockingbird in the novel, and it contributes to the themes of love residing in TKAM. Heck Tate’s selfless love for all humans finally shows after Tate refuses to put Boo out in the limelight. The last chapter of Lee’s novel states, “‘When they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . ’ ‘Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them’” (Page 376, Chapter 31). The quote contributes to the theme of not harming innocent people. At the end of the story, Atticus’s one flaw is not being able to see the innocence of Boo Radley, and the harm making him testify would cause. The last few chapters of TKAM represent pillar 5 of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Essays of Nonviolence from 1958. Maria Popova’s analysis of the essays states, “Another basic point about agape is that it springs from the need of the other person - his need of belonging to the to the best in the human family…” Heck Tate was able to show that he understood the needs of Boo Radley, which prevented violence from both the community and the town of