To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a masterpiece of American literature. The incredible plot highlights the most important things that we, as humans, need to know. Everything included in the story can be used and interpreted into everyday life. It stars a six-year-old girl named Scout who narrates the whole story as we hear it from her. One of the most important aspects that is kept consistent throughout the story is the kids’ anxiousness to see Boo Radley. Scout, Jem, and Dill make a plethora of attempts to get Boo Radley to come out of his house. The first attempt that is made is an obvious and simple adventure, it features them touching the house. However, as the second try came around, the venture got more complex, the kids kept their distance from the house and gave a letter (on a fishing pole) to Boo. Scout, Jem, and Dill continue to pursue this goal; they then try to look through the windows in the house but are scared away when a gun shot is heard. A very uncomfortable but suspenseful mood is set when the kids try to get Boo Radley out. The unwillingness of his participation creates an awkward but kind of scary mood that does not know what is going to happen next. The questions that Harper Lee forms because of Boo will create a fulfilling ending which might have a surprise.
The first attempt is overshadowed a bit. It is not thought of correctly. Oh sure, it was very simple but it has much deeper meaning and sets the stage for the rest of the book. A simple tap can be seen as a tap or seen as something beyond that by reading between the lines. The movement of Jem’s hand is described as a “flick,” it is then followed by the description of the lack of movement on the house that stood still. “The house was the same, droopy and sick, but as we stared down the street we thought we saw an inside shutter move. Flick. A tiny, almost invisible movement, and the house was still.” Just before the flick is encroached, the kids describe that they saw an inside shutter move. We don’t know if that was true or it just caught the kids in the moment, that is not described, but one thing we do know is that Boo Radley did not open the door or come out. If Boo Radley had come out, the story is as good as over, however Harper Lee keeps the reader hooked on by setting a simple plot in the beginning that gets added onto throughout the book. The climax may be reached when Boo Radley is finally seen by the children but the suspense created and started by this simple event is phenoniminal. Lets not forget that what the kids did after Jem touched the house is never told, that lack of information makes us want more. Boo Radley is described by the kids to look like a monster but since they have never seen him, that is not a fact, the kids want to make it a fact so they desperately try to get Boo Radley out of the house. This first attempt, however, was unsuccessful.
The Essay on Boo Radley Scout Jem Summer
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee 255 pages. Setting: 1. Year: 1940's 2. Location: May comb, Alabama 3. Period of Time: Three Summer " sB. Point of Veiw: First Person. Begining: Scout, the main character and of the story, Jem, her brother, and Dill, their neighbor friend that visited every summer, loved to act out stories they knew. They did all kinds of stories like Tarzan and Dracula. Signaling ...
The author sets a role for Boo Radley and sticks to it. Harper Lee wants Boo Radley to seem like the villain or the bad guy in the book, the guy who stays out of the action and appears when no one is looking. The is a sense of mystery behind the whole “Boo Radley” idea and it is further exercised when Miss Maude Atkinson comes along. She becomes friends with Scout and she tells Scout about Boo when he was little, she adds that he was polite but his father was different. His father believed that most people are going to hell. She says that most of the rumors about him are false, but that if he wasn’t crazy as a boy, he probably is by now. This adds more speculation about Boo for both Scout and the reader. At the same time, Jem and Dill continue to try to get Boo out, this time by giving him a note. They don’t want to get too close to the house so they put the note on a fishing pole and try to get it inside of a window. However, the action is cut short when Atticus catches what they are doing and he orders them to stop. “Jem attached the note to the end of the fishing pole, let the pole out across the yard and pushed it toward the window he had selected. The pole lacked severe inches of being long enough, and Jem leaned over as far as he could. I watched him making jabbing motions for so long, I abandoned my post and went to him.” If Atticus hadn’t caught the gang trying to give the note, who knows, maybe Boo would have appeared but I don’t think he would have come out because he wanted some ice cream.
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... night. While the children watch the fire from the street in front of the Radley's house, Boo Radley puts a blanket around Scout without her noticing. ... saves them, but kills Mr. Ewell. Jem's arm is broken and ... Helen. One night as Scout and Jem walk home from a Halloween party, Mr. Ewell Attacks them. Boo Radley hears their screams and ...
After two failed attempts of getting Boo Radley out of his house, the children are now more desperate than ever before. They always say that “desperate times call for desperate measures” and that is exactly what the children do. Jem and Dill obey Atticus until Dill’s last day in Maycomb, when he and Jem plan to sneak over to the Radley Place and peek in through a loose shutter. Scout accompanies them, and they creep around the house, peering in through various windows. “Dill and Jem were simply going to peep in the window with the loose shutter to see if they could get a look at Boo Radley, and if I didn’t go with them I could go straight home and keep my fat flopping mouth shut, that was all. Suddenly, they see the shadow of a man with a hat on and flee, hearing a shotgun go off behind them. They escape under the fence by the schoolyard, but Jem’s pants get caught on the fence, and he has to kick them off in order to free himself. Someone fired a gun, we don’t know who the shadow was, but obviously he/she has had enough of the children going around the vicinity of the house the whole time. The end for the kids might be violent if they keep up the torture and imitation of Boo Radley.
Even though the kids haven’t been able to meet and see Boo Radley, they have made their presence felt. When Miss Maude Atkinson’s house is on fire, Boo Radley puts a blanket over Scout when she isn’t looking. Also when the children are trying to peek into the house through the shutters, I think that the shotgun was fired to send a message to the children not to annoy him anymore. I think that his temper is very low and his anger is rising, one more faulty mistake and one of the kids could be gone. They did, however, survive the attempts they made. They continued to pursue their goal of seeing Boo Radley by flicking on the house, trying to give a letter to Boo Radley, and taking a chance at seeing him through one of the shutters. The children will keep on trying to get Boo Radley out but when he comes out, it might not be as peaceful as they wished for.
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Arthur Radley's Character Ms. Arthur Radley's Character Essay, Research Paper Ms. Lee has gone a long way to create this novel of carefully sustained mystery that she calls "To Kill A Mockingbird'. Harper Lee Describes her tranquil southern town that surprises you with a climax so astonishing, it can be described as an erupt lava of emotions. In this melodramatic novel, the most unforgettable ...
