How Does Harper Lee Present Boo Radley and the Radley Family In Chapters 1-8 Of “To Kill A Mockingbird” In Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” Boo Radley is presented as a “malevolent phantom” this is a very powerful statement, made by the people of Maycomb. This creates the reader to become very aware of Boo, as the reader is led to believe that Boo is evil. Lee is able to create this image in the readers mind, because “malevolent phantom” is said as a fact that people just learn to accept. This creates a very mysterious atmosphere for the reader, because the words “malevolent phantom” accentuates the view that Boo Radley is evil, and malicious. By using this phrase, Lee encourages us to view Boo as a strange, intimidating man, whom you would feel uncomfortable and intimidated if faced with.
As Boo had made mistakes in his life as any other person in society has, he was never forgiven. His fate, which was decided by his dad, was to have no contact outside of the Radley house. This choice had expelled Boo from ever truly feeling any relationship of what so ever, and was always cut off if he had ever. This was displayed in chapter 7 when Boo had formed some connection between Scout and Jem such as leaving presents from them in the tree knot hole; later then Boo’s brother Nathan poured cement in the hole. This demonstrated that Boo had no connections to anyone outside his house since he was not allowed to have one which made misery rain on him.
He cannot avoid the dangers presented by Curley, Curley’s wife, or the world at large. In this he is an innocent victim, causing us to feel sympathy for this doomed man. John Steinback creates sympathy for Lennie because the novel is centred on Lennie's simplicity. Throughout the entire book, Lennie's personality and life seem based on three things: his dream of one day owning a farm, devotion to his protector (George) and soft things. Within the novel, Lennie shows no significant changes, development, or growth.
Alienation Holden Caulfield, an interesting man, shows that many people show phoniness and how Holden despises them to a point where he alienates them. This book shows many themes, one of them being revolving around alienation and phoniness. J.D. Salinger’s masterpiece The Catcher in the Rye shows throughout the book that Holden alienates himself from other people because he fears the phoniness of adults. Stradlater, Holden’s roommate, shows phoniness by how he is a “secret slob” also how it annoys Holden to where he gets into a fight with Stradlater over his sloppiness with Jane, which leads Holden to alienating him.
Lennie- a genuinely nice person, has nice smile that tempted Crooks to let him in 69. Lennie- forgetful- forgets that George told him not to tell anyone about his dream 70. Loneliness- colored people are alone in the world, Crooks recounts his history of being alone 71. Not having contact with much people gives him idea to scare Lennie 72. Lennie’s stupidity allows him to believe that someone hurt George even though Crooks is just assuming 72.
(3) A man was in constant control of a woman and she had to be dresses nicely, keep a clean and orderly home, and teachthe children, upholding finances as well as being there emotionally and physically. It wasn’t easy for a woman to live with no sort of control over her life, that of her offspring or how she felt, the turn of the century must have been an enlightened adjustment. (3) Women Past Lived Page 4 marriedyoung usually to some other family that had some sort of political status or looked good for her family. The girls on the cheap side of town were usually not married until their twenties for they where need to help out with the farm land and around the house. Women could not own Women Past Lived Page 5 Female’sslaves remained slaves forever and never had real security.
Values of Companionship Imagine a life with no one to talk to, being ignored, and being treated unfairly. This is how Crooks lived like in John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men. Crooks didn’t have any companions so he acted differently than the characters with companions do in the book. While Crooks was more independent, George and Lennie relied on each other. The importance of companionship is shown by the characters with companions having different personalities than those without.
Descartes says, “…lunatics whose brain is so troubled and befogged by the black vapors of the bile that they continually affirm that they are kings while they are paupers, that they are clothed in gold and purple while they are naked...” This means: That many times when we are dreaming, our senses have the ability of tricking us into thinking that we are in fact not experiencing a dream rather than our reality. Premise 2: It is possible that I am dreaming now. Descartes expresses that the reliability of our sensory knowledge is compromised by the way some people perceive themselves. Descartes explains that if when we dream we do not know that we are dreaming, we may be dreaming at this very moment.
By simply some other way of living, people develop weird ideas in relation to Radley. Furthermore, racism inside Maycomb is extremely severe, they've got distinct church buildings and various picnic parts. These people look at "nigger-lover" as one of the violent dialect, nevertheless, "nigger-lover" is utilized by means of "ignorant, trashy people"(p108) whenever they imagine someone's favoring Negroes in addition to independently. "(P108) People who are jealous of folks who appreciate black color people a lot more than whitened people employ this "ugly time period to be able to content label an individual. "(P108)
You know he’s going to come back. S’pose you didn’t have nobody... a guy needs somebody.” We hear the sadness in Crooks’ tone and we know that he doesn’t have anybody. Crooks is a great example of what it is like if a person does not have anybody and they are lonely. This issue in the book is still relevant in today’s society as there is this fear about being alone and having no one. This novel shows the importance of relationships and how the people in the novel think about it.