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Boo Radley is the Mockingbird Most young kids are afraid of what they can not see including the boogieman, ghosts, and other imagined scary characters. Boo Radley is a mysterious character because he is never seen outside his house. Jem and Scout are afraid of Boo because their imaginations have pictured him as a creepy monster. Boo has suffered a horrible life damaged by his cruel father’s punishment to an incident with the law when Boo was young. Boo’s character is actually a symbol for…

Courage requires a great deal of motivation in order to be exhibited by someone; however, that person may endure the cost of demonstrating this characteristic. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, courage is a key element in the shaping of the main character’s childhood, Scout Finch, as she witnesses courageous acts almost every day of her life, in various ways, by the people surrounding her. She realizes that courage must be portrayed in order to sustain an ideal life. In a segregated town, in…

The mockingbird was used as a very important symbol in this story. What exactly is a mockingbird? A mockingbird is a songbird that is mainly known for its mimicry of calls and songs. The mockingbird plays a significant role in the story as a symbol of innocence, and was even included in the title by Harper Lee. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Tom Robinson and Boo Radley were characters used by Lee to symbolize the loss of innocence. Although the mockingbird played an important role in…

Everyone was once a naive child, that later developed into an educated adult. Children go through the many necessary changes to become the person they were meant to be. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the main character named Jean Louise Finch, called by her nickname, Scout went through many changes in the book. At the beginning, Scout was a six-year-old short-fused tomboy, and later developed into a wise young lady. A stage Scout went through in the beginning of the book was…

To Kill a Mockingbird taught us many lessons, one of the most evident lessons was “it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird”. Mockingbirds aren’t just present in the novel, they appear in our everyday lives as well. The only question that remains is, how can we prevent mockingbirds from being killed? As previously stated, the most important lesson taught in To Kill a Mockingbird is how it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. This is shown in the book when the police officers killed Tom Robinson. Tom…

“The Mockingbird” In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are many lessons to learn and themes to follow. One theme that shows up throughout the novel is “The Mockingbird” When the Jem and Scout receive air guns for Christmas Atticus tells the children, “I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird (Lee 90).” The mockingbird represents the innocence of some of…

A mockingbird is a unique type of bird that should never be harmed because all it does is make beautiful music. This special bird is the very symbol of innocence. Throughout Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, there are many important individuals that represent a mockingbird. From the beginning to the end of the narrative we have characters that are the embodiment of the mockingbird because all they do is help others and they themselves get harmed in some way. However, there are some…

Two people that a mockingbird can symbolize are Arthur Radley better known as Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson. Starting off with Boo Radley. One reason why Boo is like a mockingbird is that he just sits inside all day. There is not anything he can do wrong by simply siting indoors. Also, he saved the children from being killed by Bob Ewell. Bob was following the kids in the woods at night to kill them to indirectly harm Attcus, but Boo was there to stop him. He also carried Jem back to their house…

In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there were many instances of discrimination, court trials and lots of judgement. It didn’t matter if you were the nicest person in the town, there was always someone talking about you in Maycomb and judging you. A character that rarely ever made himself known got most of the judgement. He was a recluse everyone said and they feared him. No one in the town knew him well enough, but still told their children to be careful and to not go near his property. Boo…

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along,” said Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady of the United States. Eleanor was a women’s rights activist. She encountered situations where if she didn’t have courage, she wouldn’t have gotten where she was today. Courage is observed in To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Scout…