To Kill A Mockingbird Persuasive Essay

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To Kill a Mockingbird Essay by Gili Kupferman I chose to focus on question 3: what character has changed the most during the novel? Most times when teachers ask you to choose character that has changed the most during the novel, they expect you to focus on a character we actually follow as the plot of the story goes on. I decided to view the question at a little different point of view which is why the character I chose is Boo Radley; Boo didn’t change at all during the story – what changed was our opinion of him. What will be trying to show in this essay is that “appearances can be deceiving” (quote taken from the Berenstain Bears- trick or treat.) what this saying means is that like Atticus said, You never really understand a person until…show more content…
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””. by how Jem describes him you can tell that Boo Radley isn’t exactly what you would call normal… you can also tell that by the way Jem describes his house: “the house was low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate-grey around it. Rain rotten shingles drooped over the eaves of the varanda, oak trees kept the sun away.” This very long quote (which appears on page 9) is a typical haunted house picture and it is also the house of Boo Radley. This quote doesn’t say anything about Boo’s personality but you can understand that he isn’t normal. “Inside the house lives a malevolent phantom, people said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him. People said he goes out at night when the moon was high, and peeped in windows (page 9). A man that lives in a haunted house, never comes out at day and eats raw squirrels is not…show more content…
It made me think that Boo Radley might not be bad. Maybe he was trying to be good but he didn’t know how, because after almost 20 years of not being nice, (actually of not being anything at all) tis hard to suddenly be nice to someone else. Boo liked the kids, but he couldn’t go over and talk to them, not only because he didn’t know how but because he was afraid he would scare
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