Examples Of Good And Evil In To Kill A Mockingbird

Not everyone is perfect. Everyone in the whole world has and always will have imperfections. Those imperfections include jealousy, hatred, selfishness and being judgmental. To Kill a Mockingbird is about two young kids living in a town called Maycomb. They are next door neighbors with a man called Boo Radley; he is a complication throughout the story. While the kids are trying to grow up in a racist era their Father, Atticus, is fighting for the life of an innocent man by the name of Tom Robinson.

Mr. Cunningham is both a good and bad man. Good and Evil at the same time. He appears about halfway through the novel in a mob of people. Lee states, “A mob’s always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man” (210). Mr. Cunningham is in mob that is going after Tom Robinson and showing that, the reader can see he has some form of evil within him. They are going after Tom since they suspected that he raped Mayella because he is black and he was close

In the beginning of the story the reader is told that Boo is a very bad person. Multiple people say how bad of a person he is but the reader is not given much information about him. Calpurnia whispers, “‘There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into’” (15). They say he is the meanest man to walk this earth, but they do not even know him. They just heard rumors about him. Towards the end of the novel he finally shows himself. He helps the kids without doing any harm. By the end of the book, the reader realizes that Boo is a good person and has no evil within him. He is in the bedroom with them because he is the one that saved them. He helps save Scout’s life but fails to save Jem’s. Lee writes, “Boo had drifted to a corner of the room, where he stood with his chin up, peering from a distance at Jem” (372). He went from being known as a nightmare to a hero in just a few