To Kill A Mockingbird Quote Analysis
Jenna Pizzi
Mrs. Johnson
College English 10
7 February 2013
“To Kill a Mockingbird” Essay In a span of a child’s lifetime there are a variety of adults who reflect on child’s maturity. In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” the author, Harper Lee provides countless examples of grown –ups that expose the adolescents to mature life morals. She explains how the loss of innocence between the youth makes them recognize the problems that lie within society. Several of the characters are faced with the racial discrimination. Near the end of the book the author shows the children finally accepting others as they are not for whom they want them to be. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, there are many influential figures that help Scout and Jem mature …show more content…
Overtime Scout and Jem both learn how to love people. On page 22 Scout says, "Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”(Lee, 2) This quote is in the beginning of the book when they both judged Boo Radely. After he gave them all of these wonderful items they finally start to realize he is a compassionate man. He is beyond lonely and just wants someone to accept him for who he is, not what others see him as. “One time Atticus said you never really knew a man until you stood in his shoes and walked around in them; just standin ' on the Radely porch was enough. The summer that had begun so long ago had ended, and another summer had taken its place, and a fall, and Boo Radely had come out. Said Scout.”(Lee, 40). Scout is talking about how as she grew older she finally starts to realize what it really means to show others what it means to care. It also shows that she is learning to accept a man who is known to be erotic. On the last few pages of the novel, Boo and Scout are walking home. It states “I started to see another life through Boo’s eyes. This quote is beyond important for how the children mature throughout the story. It took Scout’s brother Jem to get hurt for her to finally realize it’s time to wake up and learn to not take things for
Mrs. Johnson
College English 10
7 February 2013
“To Kill a Mockingbird” Essay In a span of a child’s lifetime there are a variety of adults who reflect on child’s maturity. In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” the author, Harper Lee provides countless examples of grown –ups that expose the adolescents to mature life morals. She explains how the loss of innocence between the youth makes them recognize the problems that lie within society. Several of the characters are faced with the racial discrimination. Near the end of the book the author shows the children finally accepting others as they are not for whom they want them to be. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, there are many influential figures that help Scout and Jem mature …show more content…
Overtime Scout and Jem both learn how to love people. On page 22 Scout says, "Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”(Lee, 2) This quote is in the beginning of the book when they both judged Boo Radely. After he gave them all of these wonderful items they finally start to realize he is a compassionate man. He is beyond lonely and just wants someone to accept him for who he is, not what others see him as. “One time Atticus said you never really knew a man until you stood in his shoes and walked around in them; just standin ' on the Radely porch was enough. The summer that had begun so long ago had ended, and another summer had taken its place, and a fall, and Boo Radely had come out. Said Scout.”(Lee, 40). Scout is talking about how as she grew older she finally starts to realize what it really means to show others what it means to care. It also shows that she is learning to accept a man who is known to be erotic. On the last few pages of the novel, Boo and Scout are walking home. It states “I started to see another life through Boo’s eyes. This quote is beyond important for how the children mature throughout the story. It took Scout’s brother Jem to get hurt for her to finally realize it’s time to wake up and learn to not take things for