Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee - 1699 Words

People of different race go through an unfathomable amount of issues concerning their race and social class. Problems with race and social class enhance a considerable amount of problems which takes place throughout the novel. Throughout Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, three main conflicts arise throughout the story. The people of the town are extremely prejudice not only with race but with social class, also during the novel, the residents of Maycomb show an unfair bias towards people of a different races and social class, but guilt and innocence is the resolution of it all. Ignorance often leads to a poor perception of a specific group of people. Boo Radley, a creature whom the people of Maycomb know little about, is a†¦show more content†¦The townspeople associate his strangeness with evil and foster a prejudice against Boo† (Steven 272). As the talk and rumors go on throughout the town, people start to believe them, and it starts to overpower their thoughts. Scout, Dill, and Jem’s curiosity gets the best of them. They start to pretend to be in a scenario involving Boo Radley, in Jem and Scouts front yard. While they do this the kids start to get anxious about seeing Boo. They begin to plot their investigation to see Boo Radley. As ___ conformes, â€Å"Boo Radley is compelling enigma and source of adventure for the children, but he also represents Scout’s most personal lesson in judging others based upon surface appearance† (Felty 298). Atticus’s main lesson throughout the story is for Scout and Jem no t to judge a person unless they have been in their shoes, and have gone through what that person is going through. Scout does not understand why Boo wants to stay inside, but as the novel continues Scout sees that Boo is not what people say that he is. She realizes that she and all the others are wrong about Boo. Boo gains a connection with the children after watching them act in their front yard. In the beginning Boo is compared as a monster or some kind of ghost, but in all honesty, he is the complete opposite. By the end of the novel Boo, as a matter of fact, can almost

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