To Kill A Mockingbird Santa Clause Quotes
Every time Christmas arrives, Santa Claus is on the minds of many children across the country. Their belief about a jolly old man in red called Santa Claus often results from the parents’ harmless lies of Santa’s existence. Once the kids are old enough to use logic and reason, they begin to question the inconsistencies of their childhood story and come to realize that Santa Clause doesn’t exist, thus altering their belief because the reality of Santa’s nonexistence has always been concealed. In Harper Lee’s debatable novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and her brother Jem are exposed to many injustices of Maycomb through their process of growing up. As the story progresses, perceptions and ideas that the characters, especially the children,
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once held to be “True” turn out to be false, and Tom Robinson’s trial and Boo Radley remain as the epitomes of Scout’s and Jem’s misconceptions.
Before the trial, Jem clings to his ideology that life in Maycomb is dictated by the laws, and justice always drives the verdict.
After Atticus’s brilliant arguments, Jem remains optimistic about his father’s victory despite Reverend’s uncertainty: “‘… He’s not supposed to lean, Reverend, but don’t fret, we’ve won it… Don’t see how any jury could convict on what we heard…” (279). This naïve confidence results from Jem’s lack of understanding of how deep the racial-bias judgment engraved in the minds of Maycomb’s residents, thus results in his ultimate realization. Likewise, another character who is also misjudged in the novel is Arthur Radley, or Boo Radley. With their childish imagination and the fictitious rumors about Boo, Jem, Scout, and Dill misbelieve him to be “…about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.” (16). Fabricated myths and rumors about Boo and his family circulate through the entire town only because Maycomb and its residents, despite the scarce amount of compassionate individuals, are ignorant of what is behind the family’s closed door. To the children, Boo Radley only exists as a figment of their imagination, a ruthless monster with no physical identity, a “malevolent
phantom”.
once held to be “True” turn out to be false, and Tom Robinson’s trial and Boo Radley remain as the epitomes of Scout’s and Jem’s misconceptions.
Before the trial, Jem clings to his ideology that life in Maycomb is dictated by the laws, and justice always drives the verdict.
After Atticus’s brilliant arguments, Jem remains optimistic about his father’s victory despite Reverend’s uncertainty: “‘… He’s not supposed to lean, Reverend, but don’t fret, we’ve won it… Don’t see how any jury could convict on what we heard…” (279). This naïve confidence results from Jem’s lack of understanding of how deep the racial-bias judgment engraved in the minds of Maycomb’s residents, thus results in his ultimate realization. Likewise, another character who is also misjudged in the novel is Arthur Radley, or Boo Radley. With their childish imagination and the fictitious rumors about Boo, Jem, Scout, and Dill misbelieve him to be “…about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.” (16). Fabricated myths and rumors about Boo and his family circulate through the entire town only because Maycomb and its residents, despite the scarce amount of compassionate individuals, are ignorant of what is behind the family’s closed door. To the children, Boo Radley only exists as a figment of their imagination, a ruthless monster with no physical identity, a “malevolent
phantom”.