Don't Judge Lennie! In the novel Of Mice and Men written by John Steinbeck, Lennie is viewed differently by a few different characters in the novel. The three characters chosen who respond to and view Lennie differently are George, Crooks, and Curley. Lennie is portrayed as a mean, bulky, hardworking man to some, and to others he is a nice, kind, caring guy. The men who view him this way are totally different from each other.
At night the Jem and Scout hear scraping and believe that it may be Boo Radley out seeking his revenge. They would imagine him scratching on the screen and picking it apart with his fingers. "Boo was 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 off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time." (Lee’s pg.13) As the story progresses the children discover little trinkets in a tree by the Radley
A sociopath does not feel emotion towards others, and only looks out for the good of himself, which perfectly exemplifies the protagonist in this novel. The word sociopath describes a person who has little to no emotions towards people and other living things beside themselves. People may think that all sociopaths are psychotic serial killers, but that is not the case. There are many ordinary citizens who suffer from the psychological disorder. Symptoms of a sociopath are pathological lying, lack of remorse, incapacity of love, need for stimulation, lack of empathy, juvenile delinquency, unreliability, criminal or entrepreneurial versatility, and shallow emotions.
But neighbours give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”(Lee 373). This quote illustrates that Scout recognizes Boo’s kindness for having left her gifts in an oak tree, and his goodness for having saved her life. This view on Boo from Scout is different than at the start of the novel. Earlier on, Scout thinks of Boo as a monster.
They do hear plenty of rumours though from characters in the novel, building an aura of mystery and fear around Boo. The themes that Arthur Radley brings out include fear, compassion & forgiveness and youth. It brings out the theme of fear because the citizens of Maycomb are all scared of Boo and gossip and tell rumors about him like “Radley pecans would kill you” (Lee 11), “A baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball and no questions asked” (Lee 11), “People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped into windows” (Lee 10), “When people’s azalea’s froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them” (Lee 10) and “Any stealthy small crimes in Maycomb were his work” (Lee 10). The portrayal of Arthur Radley reveals the theme of compassion & forgiveness because at the beginning Scout and Jem think Boo is a “malevolent phantom” (Lee 10) and later in the novel they begin to realize that Arthur is a really good person and he just wants to help out. Jem realizes this when he says, “…he ain’t ever harmed us, he ain’t ever hurt us, he coulda cut my throat from ear to ear that night but he tried to mend my pants instead” (Lee 96).
In To Kill a Mockingbird Boo Radley, who was the mysterious town recluse, helps Jem and Scout three different times, even though they did not return the favors, or treat him with respect at all times. The first example is when Boo sewed Jem’s pants when they were trying to see what Boo looked like, and Jem’s pants were caught in the fence. Jem left the pants there, and when he went back to get them, they were sewn and folded. They figured out that Boo fixed the pants because he did not want Jem to get in trouble. When Miss Maudie’s house was set on fire, Atticus told Jem and Scout to go stand outside by the Radley’s place.
A good person usually has a mean streak, that is not dominant, but undeniably there. A bad person has a good side but that side also doesn’t show. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, there are many examples of good and bad characters. A good character is Atticus Finch for example. Examples of bad characters in the story are Bob Ewell and Nathan Radley, evidenced by Calpurnia saying that he is “the meanest man ever God blew breath into.”
Lot’s wife, as noted in the text, perishes, because she does not trust and obey. These stories act as corrective tales to guide behavior. Popular stories might include folk tales, fairy tales, fables, etc. For example, in Aesop’s “The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf” (popularly known as “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”), the boy told the same lie three or four times about a wolf killing the sheep. When a wolf did threaten the lives of the sheep, no one believed him.
Travis Walker 1301-01 Thesis Statement: Raising A Baby Squirrel can be fun and rewarding yet difficult and disappointing. I found the baby squirrel whenever he was about four weeks old. I walked out of the house on a Friday morning and both of our cats came running inside from underneath the car, which was unusual. So, I walked outside and looked under the car and there was a baby squirrel hugged up to the front drivers side tire fighting for his life. Apparently the cats had been tormenting him all night long.
Secondly, Arthur "Boo" Radley, the mystery of the town, no one really knows anything about him, just that he's been locked inside the house since he was young. So, instead of just leaving him alone, the town makes up all kinds of crazy rumors about him for example, all he has to eat are cats and squirrels. He dominates the minds of all the children and throughout the book, they are constantly trying to get a good look at