to her during the beginning In the earlier stages of the book‚ Scout enjoyed the summer holidays playing with Jem and Dill. Their curiosity and fascination of the Radley house caused them to come up with imaginary descriptions of Boo. They depicted him as a ferocious monster that ate little kids at night. At one point‚ Scout rolled into the Radley yard in a tire and Jem and Dill were completely scared that Boo was going to come out and kill Scout. However‚ a ferocious monster did not come out and
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“Live a great life.” People have heard of that quote or something similar often‚ but sometimes life is not as superlative as some people anticipate it to be. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the author’s moderate use of racism impacts how the characters behave throughout the story. The author’s use of setting and the characterization of children highlights the importance of discrimination in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. The author’s use of setting climaxes the importance of racism in the
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Racism is present throughout To Kill a Mockingbird. Racism has been around for many years and will probably never go away. There is many examples of racism throughout the entire book of To Kill a Mockingbird. After knowing all the examples it teaches the reader about many things that occurred throughout the 1900’s. Racism is not only rude‚ it also affects people’s lives and how people live. Racism is atrocious and it agonizes many people. First‚ Scout and Jem were walking around outside. Then
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years of the Great Depresion in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb‚ Alabama. It focuses on six-year-old Scout Finch‚ who lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus‚ a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt each summer. The three children are terrified of‚ and fascinated by‚ their neighbor‚ the reclusive "Boo" Radley. There are a lot of similarities between Harper Lee and the narrator‚ Scout‚ in the novel‚ To
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housekeeper named Calpurnia. Over the summer they meet a boy named Dill‚ who wants to marry Scout. Jem tells Dill about a scary house that the Radley family lives in. Throughout the summer they try to make Boo Radley come out. Jem and Scout start to find things in a tree near the Radley’s house. They find gum‚ pennies and soap dolls. Scout begins to become close friends with a sweet lady called Miss Maudie. Jem and Dill leave Scout behind a lot more. Unfortunately one day Miss Maudie’s
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and many of those times‚ they succeed. In the book Jem and scout are very vulnerable to peer pressure‚ which makes them want to follow the lead of other people. An example of this in‚ “To Kill a Mockingbird” when Dill claimed that Jem was too chicken to touch the Radley house‚ It was Dill who later claimed that Jem was too chicken to even touch the Radley House. It took Jem many days to finally gather the courage to touch the house. Another example is when Scout was pressured into going on a night
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To Kill A Mockingbird Gender roles are slowly disappeared as society advanced yet we were nowhere close to equality in the depressing age of the thirties they were very much alive. Yet in a time of woman must follow what is expected Scout the speaker of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird‚ seems to unknowingly challenge what is the norm of society. The classic novel tells the story of Scout a young girl growing up in Maycomb Alabama as she journeys with her brother Jem and close friend Dil‚ the
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Arthur ‘boo’ radley At the start of the novel ‘boo’ is described as a “malevolent phantom”. Boo is never seen outside the house. ”phantom” shows us that harper lee wants to hint that boo haunts his house like a ghost would. The fact that “phantom” is used and ghost isn’t means that the reader is meant to think that boo is evil. This is backed up by the word “malevolent” showing that boo wishes to harm others something only a “phantom” would do. This idea of Boo being a “phantom” is further enforced
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Spencer Kessler Mrs. Krone Honors English 1 20 September 2017 Dolphus Raymond’s Lack of Courage In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ Dolphus Raymond is a partial foil to Atticus Finch because of their differing actions when faced with the similar stance upon a highly controversial topic of Black equality. Before Scout learns otherwise‚ she follows the society’s belief that alcoholism has caused Dolphus to follow a so-called evil lifestyle‚ living as an equal to people of color. Dolphus
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