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    Calpurnia‚ Atticus Finch‚ and Boo Radley. These characters are all very different but all link together in some way. Calpurnia is the Finch’s housekeeper who is trusted by Atticus and his family. Atticus says I couldn’t have got along without her all these years. She’s a faithful member of this family‚ and another thing‚ the children love her. She acts as a mother figure for Jem and Scout and disciplines them like her own children. Atticus says she imposes stricter discipline

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    Bob Radley and Tom Robinson come from different backgrounds. They both face similar stories of prejudice and unfair judgements. Boo and Tom face some of the same hardships throughout the novel. They are both good men who were put down because they were considered “different” than others in the town. Their actions were very much criticize. Boo Radley was punished by his father as a teenager‚ so if was put on lock down‚ as he

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    1930s’ Maycomb County‚ Alabama of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (New York: Grand Central‚ 1960)‚ this particular person was dubbed “Boo”. Not much is seen of Arthur (Boo) Radley which leaves the town much room to create many fictions that hide the little known facts. The real Boo is nothing like the town’s “Boo”. In the very first chapter‚ the town’s view of Boo is explained to newcomer Charles Baker “Dill” Harris (10-16). The very first words Scout used to describe him were “malevolent phantom”

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    problems‚ and the judicial system. Final‚ Boo Radley changes Scouts

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    of a mockingbird appears from time to time. The mockingbird symbolizes one´s purity of true kindness to do something and receive nothing or something worse‚ in return. This symbolic bird develops the theme throughout this book by establishing the actions of a mockingbird onto the innocence population of Maycomb. Within this naive population‚ two characters can be considered ¨mockingbirds‚¨ Tom Robinson and Arthur ¨Boo Radley.¨ One of the numerous people targeted due to racial unacceptance by local

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    prejudice because they both received negative attitudes towards their religions. Mr.Radley was a victim of religious prejudice because he was negatively talked about because of his religious beliefs. An example is when Scout asks Miss Maudie why Boo Radley never comes out of the house. Miss Maudie tells Scout that Boo’s father was a "foot-washing Baptist." Miss Maudie says that "Foot-washers believe anything that’s pleasure is a sin" (Pg.28). When a person called someone a foot washer‚ that means

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    In the six years I spent tracking David Addley‚ it never occurred to me that he didn’t exist. Sitting in the corner of a padded room in a straight jacket can be an enlightening experience. The nurses had told me numerous times the night before that there was no one named David Addley who lived in the small town I’d come too searching for him. I didn’t and couldn’t believe them at the time. I had screamed his name all night through the holes on the window of my cell door until the nurses were forced

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    To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Analysis of the relationship between Boo Radley and the Finch- children The novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ written by the American Author Harper Lee‚ was published in 1960. The story is focused on the perspective of a little girl named Scout Finch who lives with her brother‚ Jem Finch‚ and father‚ Atticus Finch‚ in a “tired” old town in Alabama named Maycomb. Throughout the whole novel the Characters have to deal with the town’s prejudice and racism against the

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    terrified of Boo than Jem or Dill are. While the two older boys push at the edges of their fears by attempting to make indirect contact with Boo‚ Scout hangs back‚ not wanting to bring the monster’s wrath down upon them. When she does get drawn into their schemes‚ she pays for it with sleepless nights. Every night-sound I heard from my cot on the back porch was magnified three-fold; every scratch of feet on gravel was Boo Radley seeking revenge‚ every passing Negro laughing in the night was Boo Radley

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    brother is Jem and they play with Dill Harris when he comes in the summer. One summer the three of them try to lure the reclusive Boo Radley to show his face even though they themselves have never seen it. Many people wouldn’t show their face in public because others discriminate against them because of physical features or if they’re mentally handicapped. Boo Radley‚ a simple man that is mentally handicapped‚ has never seen society or the light

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