Scout learns a major lesson which is not to kill a Mockingbird. She learns that Boo is simply an innocent mockingbird and does not harm just sings and Boo just suffered from his fathers cruel intentions which made the town see him as a harmful creature. The children and Boo never had a physical connection or chemistry but this barrier is soon broken when he saves the children form Bob Ewell. Scout now understands and see’s Boo as actually a real creature although she still points at him, which shows her transformation is still in progress she treats Boo like a real person. When Atticus fails to understand that Boo was the one who killed Bob, Scout explains Atticus a lesson which is usually visa versa, that you must never kill a Mockingbird and by exposing and giving him the negative publicity towards Boo it would be like killing him in a way.
Boo is in no position to take on the position of “hero of Maycomb” and Atticus realizes that he shouldn’t have to, and Scout helps him remember. Scout shows Atticus that he has gotten through to her when she purposely doesn’t remember what happened to keep Boo from being bothered. Scout stands on the Radley porch to show her empathy and understanding of how Boo saw things and acted on them. Atticus learns a very valuable lesson that he is sure to teach to others later on, Atticus’s role as wise advisor changed many lives in so many different
One experience is with Boo Radley who was the mysterious man who never leaved his house, and they always thought he was evil and they were all afraid of him, but then he saved them from being attacked but during the attack Jem was knocked out could so he never saw who saved them but Scout did. That is when she knew that they were wrong that Boo Radley didn’t stay in his house because he is evil but stayed in because the world was evil and he did not want to be a part of it. Jem was also exposed to a life changing event and that is the Tom Robinson trail. In the trail he learns how mean a race can be to another race, to Jem after Atticus presented the evidence to the Jury it seemed like Tom would have won for sure but he didn’t really know about the racism that happens and was shocked when he was proven guilty. Both the children went through a hard childhood with discrimination a big part of their life’s and just a regular day could have had a life altering change.
Throughout the novel Jem has a difficulty with understanding what courage is. Jem starts with thinking that courage is somehow associated with childish acts. As an example, Atticus tells Jem to leave Boo Radley and their house alone, but one night Jem ignores his father’s rule and runs to the Radley’s house and touches the front door. Jem sees this as an act of courage, of first disobeying his father and secondly braving the Radley house that is scary to the young minds of Jem, and their friend Dill. Further along in the novel, the incident with the mad
This quote shows the people’s impression of Boo and how they affect the childrens in the book. A day came when they were acting out Boo’s life and Atticus says, “that you never really understand a person until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (36). Boo teaches Scout and Jem not to judge a person based on rumors because later in the book, they find out that Boo is not this evil person as the society perceives but he is an innocent and kind person, symbolic of a mockingbird. Boo also teaches Jem and Scout a major theme of the book which is that it's terrible to do harm to an innocent person as Atticus would say, “It is a sin to kill a mockingbird.” At the end of the book, when Tate and Atticus are hiding the case of Boo killing Bob, Scout reminds Atticus that charging Boo with murder would be, “Like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”(276) It refers back to when Atticus told them it’s a sin to kill mockingbird because they don’t harm you. Boo is symbolic of a mockingbird because he didn’t do harm to anyone.
“All he wanted to do was to get him and his sister safely home’” (275). Certainly, everyone is shocked to see Boo come out publicly and facing everyone, especially, finding out that he has done a lot to save Jem and Scout. But Heck Tate knows what Boo did was not anything serious because Boo is just so concerned about the children's safety that he risks himself getting out of the house, making a public appearance just so he can rescue the
He tries to preserve the viridity of the children by erasing the profanity showing what kind of person he really is. Even though he constantly curses himself, he never uses profanity in front of small children. Also just because things are written in a book doesn’t mean that they will actually do it. For example when Holden says “we could drive up to Massachusetts...And stay in this cabin...later on we can get married or something...” (171) Even though these ideas occur to him no teenager would actually do this because teens are smart enough to know about the consequences and results. A very good example of this is his date Sally who is roughly around the same age as him and thinks things through and is aware of the consequences.
There is not a lot said about his history at home but it is mentioned that he feels the need to impress others due to the fact that he is a ‘late baby’. Cormier never really defines what Raymond means by this but it does influence his actions and journey throughout the story. As the novel progresses we start to see little events of courage that start to change his own personal journey. When Artkin and Miro drugged the children, Raymond had the wit and nerve to hide the candy instead of eating it “…I pretended to sleep, like the others…I thought they’d be mad at me and punish me if I didn't eat the candy…” In his last moments during the book, he wanted nothing more than to go home. When Artkin approaches him about taking a walk outside, Raymond asks Kate if it is all right to go.
He also saw that help can come from places you least expect it. He didn’t expect help from Boo that night, because he believed all the things he had heard about him, and didn’t realize he was a really nice, kind person. Jem really wanted everybody to be treated equal. I like the theme of the story. I can see how lies and rumors can cause so many problems in our world.
“Manhood” by John Wain focuses on the slightly negative sides of pacing, even though the father may not be doing what he does to put pressure on his son. “The Happiest Days of Your Life” written by Penelope Lively, is telling us how childhood actually can be. “Growing up” is represented in both stories, as a period in your life where other people affect you and adjust you into being who you are, and in that way making every single person unique. I chose to analyse and compare these two texts, because they deal with the theme “growing up” in quite similar ways. E.g.