Boo Radley Changes In To Kill A Mockingbird
In the blockbuster novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper lee,there are two siblings named Jem and Scout who have a friend named Dill who comes every summer. They go on adventures and see a trial that Atticus is working on. There is also a neighborhood “ghost” who is really a nice guy. The main idea of the novel is how people are perceived differently when you first meet them.
The first person who is perceived as someone else, it is Atticus Finch. He is Scout and Jem’s father and the lawyer for Tom Robinson’s case. He is perceived as an amazing man and he could do anything but it all changed during the Tom Robinson case. The case is that Tom Robinson raped Bob Ewell’s daughter, Mayella Ewell. It is a black man versus a white man case. He would never win because there is so much inequality during that time …show more content…
Boo Radley is one of the most important characters in the story. “Hey Boo,” (Lee, 362). This is the first chapter where you actually meet Boo. He is standing in the corner of Jem’s room when Jem broke his elbow. Everybody thinks Boo is this really scary person. They call him Boo because he’s like a ghost. His real name is Arthur Radley. Jem described him as, “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." (Lee,chapter1) This shows what Scout and Jem thought of him. It was a not very good assumption. He turns out to be not so creepy in the way he looks and turned out to be a very nice person which scout didn’t really expect. They realized their perceptions was wrong because he gave them food, fixed Jem’s pants, and gave them dolls over time.She came to expect it as she matured and got
The first person who is perceived as someone else, it is Atticus Finch. He is Scout and Jem’s father and the lawyer for Tom Robinson’s case. He is perceived as an amazing man and he could do anything but it all changed during the Tom Robinson case. The case is that Tom Robinson raped Bob Ewell’s daughter, Mayella Ewell. It is a black man versus a white man case. He would never win because there is so much inequality during that time …show more content…
Boo Radley is one of the most important characters in the story. “Hey Boo,” (Lee, 362). This is the first chapter where you actually meet Boo. He is standing in the corner of Jem’s room when Jem broke his elbow. Everybody thinks Boo is this really scary person. They call him Boo because he’s like a ghost. His real name is Arthur Radley. Jem described him as, “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." (Lee,chapter1) This shows what Scout and Jem thought of him. It was a not very good assumption. He turns out to be not so creepy in the way he looks and turned out to be a very nice person which scout didn’t really expect. They realized their perceptions was wrong because he gave them food, fixed Jem’s pants, and gave them dolls over time.She came to expect it as she matured and got