Symbols In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is the only novel Harper Lee wrote. This novel still is alive in the lives of the people who read it. People are affected by this great novel. This book also tends to affect those in schools that at first are not interested in reading this book. Harper Lee, in To Kill a Mockingbird, shows many different symbols throughout the entire book. Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, Atticus Finch, Mayella Ewell, and Scout Finch are symbols throughout the story. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a timeless novel with great insight on the simple times, racism, and the difficult situations that occur in life. (Altman) The full name of Harper Lee was Nelle Harper Lee. Harper Lee was born in Monroeville, Alabama, on April 28, 1926, and
Scout, Jem, and Dill fear this mysterious murderer. The kids later on in the story find out the truth of Boo Radley. Boo would randomly help the kids without their acknowledgment. Jem and Scout were up to no good on Boo’s property one day, and Jem had torn his pants and had gotten snagged on the fence, but Jem had to leave his pants in the fence but so he and Scout could get home without anyone noticing them. Later on when Jem had secretly returned for his pants the pants were hemmed up and folded on the fence neatly. Jem had no idea what had happened to his pants, but Jem had to leave puzzled on what had happened. Boo had hemmed up the pants for Jem. Boo also secretly carved wooden gifts for Jem and Scout. Later on in the story Mr. Ewell attacked the children while they were on their way home from a play one night. Out of nowhere Boo Radley fights Mr. Ewell to protect the two kids. The kids thank Boo for what he had done for them, but after that night the kids never saw Boo again. Boo Radley is a symbol of the people that are misunderstood. So many people of get looked at in the wrong way, because the way they look or act. Quick judgement is wrong. People need to find out how someone truly is before they are critical of them. This situation that Harper Lee created is a great life lesson on not judging others.
Scout is the narrator of the story. Scout’s father Atticus throughout the entire story has to teach Scout lessons. Scout is young and clueless to the ways of the world. Scout says things up to racism remarks down to how some kid eats. Scout is the typical kid. Every now and then we all can be like Scout. We can be inconsiderate of people’s feelings. Scout would say random things without thinking, just like we do more times than not. Scout’s outlook on everything is that everything is generally unfair. We too can look on the negative side of things for the most part if we are not careful. Scout symbolizes us in the sense of we do not always understand things in life, as well as we do not always think before we