To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

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The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, which is one of the best books, is filled with incredible connections and fantastic foreshadowing. Once you pick up this book, you will need the key of being able to dissect the book in order to unlock its full potential. Through the three-and-a-half year-long journey that is To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee takes Jeremy Atticus Finch and Jean Louise Finch through a never-ending pile of events. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is about Jem and Scout Finch and their childhood in Maycomb, Alabama. Their lives consist of a never-ending-chain-of-events, many interesting and unique people, and life’s lessons that give Jem, Scout, and Atticus a fresh view of the world. Not many people have actually seen and experienced Tom Robinson and Arthur “Boo” Radley, and this leads to incorrect thoughts about each character. Tom and Boo have a lot of good in them. They are both like Mockingbirds because they are both innocent humans harmed by the evil of mankind. In Harper Lee’s novel, both Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are innocent characters, but Boo’s kindness is hidden by rumors and Tom’s generosity is hidden by stereotypes. Tom and Boo are both described and interpreted in incorrect ways because some people have never seen them, and most people base their assumptions on rumors and stereotypes. There are many incidents in To Kill a Mockingbird where this is evident. The first place where this is evident, is at the beginning of the book Dill asks what Boo look like and Jem describes Boo 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... ... middle of paper ... ... blacks and makes them impotent hurts Tom Robinson this time because even though Atticus has ripped apart the Ewells to a point where they aren’t even asked for the truth, Tom Robinson is still a black man in a Jim Crow south and his word is against two white people’s word. And ultimately instead of being rewarded for helping out, he gets shot. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are both treated wrongly because of rumors and stereotypes. These two characters have all this in common but the ultimatum is that Boo is mostly made rumors of because of immaturity and a wacko father, but Tom is treated badly because of his race. But the characters are united in ways that would and should never be wished upon a person. And, in a way Boo Radley and Tom Robinson are both like Mockingbirds and it is a sin to do what has been done to them.

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