Characteristic of Hale In the book “The Crucible” by Arthur Miller, there is a very creepy and interesting old man. The story is about a village that are all puritans and some teen age girls start blaming each other of witch craft to avoid a death sentence or to get out of trouble. The man happens to not be part of the village but a vaster just passing by, who in my mind over stayed his visit. Hale is an old preacher who has been searching for proof of witches and finds a village that is said to be filled with them. “Nearing forty, tight skinned, and eager eyed,” So just imagine a man that is really old with bulging eyes looking for witches.
Boo Radley is portrayed as en evil figure for most of the novel, mainly due to rumours circulating about him. For example, Jem is told by Miss Stephanie Crawford (the town gossip) that Boo “[drives] [a pair] of scissors into his [father’s] leg, pull[s] them out, wipe[s] them on his pants, and resume[s] his activities” (11).Boo’s innocence is shown, however, when Jem says to Scout; “I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It’s because he wants to stay inside"(231). This passage reveals to the reader that Boo Radley is not a figure to be afraid of, but to be pitied. Boo is afraid of how Maycomb will judge him, much like how the blacks are judged and prejudiced against by the whites.
Max’s father takes him to an old woman’s home, where they are intruders, and then to the filthy basement of a burned-out building. The conclusion is clear: in the world of Freak the Mighty, most homes are symbols of the torn and crippled families that live in them. The larger social settings, such as the school, town, or hospital, are not always as depressing, but they are just as threatening and violent. Max never knows when a gang of thugs will threaten him or when an entire school classroom will start making fun of him. Here too the novel gives clear messages through its settings: communities are not always welcoming, and they will violently reject you if you are different.
His soul’s probably in heaven and all that junk but his body, his body is stuck here in the dirt. Boy, do I miss that old red hair of his. Most red heads are said to have a bad temper and all, but not old Allie. He was a good kid, he really was. I can remember this one time I would tell old Allie to meet me at Bobby’s house, even though we would wait for him we never played with him.
Yet these truths are no solace against the kind of alienation that comes of being ever the suspect, a fearsome entity with whom pedestrians avoid making eye contact. It is not altogether clear to me how I reached the ripe old age of twenty-two without being conscious of the lethality nighttime pedestrians attributed to me. Perhaps it was because in Chester, Pennsylvania, the small, angry industrial town where I came of age in the 1960’s, I was scarcely noticeable against the backdrop of gang warfare, street knifings, and murders. I grew up one of the good boys, had perhaps a half-dozen fist fights. In retrospect, my shyness of combat has clear sources.
Mr. Charrington, the owner of the antique shop, was an undercover Thought Police agent who caught Julia and Winston in their secret room they rented out above his shop. The Spies encourage children to report thoughtcrime if they have witnessed it as well. Parsons’ daughter reports him to the Thought Police when he unknowingly talked ill of the Party in his sleep. Surprisingly, Parsons was proud of his daughter since she was so loyal to the Party and, to him, it shows how well he raised her (Orwell 233). These ways of surveillance should never take place.
Arthur “Boo” Radley, is the most glaring outsider in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Boo Radley is a man who had some problems with the law when he was a teenager. Ever since then, his father kept him in the house. Readers never encounter Boo throughout the whole novel until the final chapters. They do hear plenty of rumours though from characters in the novel, building an aura of mystery and fear around Boo.
No permanent house and shelter to live in and the road is his only home to rest. I don’t know what kind of a person he is, whether he is an asylum or mentally imbalance, lost in mind or something. He is certainly strange and peculiar. This man in black is dark and tall. He stands about six feet tall and lanky.
An example of plot in treating people equally occurs with Boo Radley. In the book many people don’t like Boo due to all the gossip they have heard about him. These people have their “eye’s closed” and should not have a negative opinion about Boo Radley because they have never met him and gotten to know him. They need to open their eyes and realize that they cannot judge Boo because they have never met him. Another example of plot in treating people equally occurs with Tom Robinson.
No one really ever saw Boo Radley and the people of the town made up many weird stories about him and the spooky house he lives in. It illustrates that when someone is different’ from us we will make up stories or blame them for things that are not their fault because we are afraid. Despite the kindnesses shown to the children by Boo, (Chapter 4 ‘Scout passes the Radley Place and sees some tinfoil sticking out of a knothole in one of the Radleys’ oak trees. Scout reaches into the knothole and discovers two pieces of chewing gum’ and in Chapter 7 ‘When they come home from school that day, they find another present hidden in the knothole: a ball of gray twine’) the children do not see Boo as a human being but as a person to be feared. The children’s father Atticus, tries to make the children more compassionate and tries to get them to see things from the other person’s point of view before judging them, (Atticus, Chapter 3: ‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view .