Scout is talking about Boo Radley. Throughout the book Scout references mockingbirds. She says "Its a sin to kill a Mockingbird...Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy (Lee,118). After Atticus argues with Heck about wether or not Jem killed Bob Ewell. Defeated Atticus turns to Scout to tell her Jem didn't kill Bob. Scout at this point has figured out that Boo actually was the one who put the knife in Bob. She says "Well it'd be sort of like shooting' a mockingbird wouldn't it (Lee,371)? She means that Boo never did anything to hurt anybody, like a mockingbird, so rather than causes all the pain it would, they should just let him be. Boo Radley is one of the only truly good people in Maycomb. He might not be seen doing good often, or ever for that matter but when it counted he came through. The community would never pay him back. The community would never know, but he was a truly good person. Scout only understood that after stepping in his shoes for a little bit. Atticus understands that Boo is and always was good, however he is surprised that Scout does. Before he says he often fells as though he's not a very good parent but they're all he has. When Scout says she understands, its like saying that Everything he has taught has stuck. She got it. This is really comforting to Atticus, because for the second time this novel he has gotten hypothetically naked and put himself out there. This time though his message was heard. Not by Mr. Tate, but by Scout. She heard what he had said. She soaked in his teaching and is the better for it.
Do you think Boo or Jem killed Bob. Or Mr Tate was right?
Is Boo a good person or just a pyscho who was locked up for too long?
Boo is a good person. Boo was given the choice of either standing back and watching two innocent children get killed, or doing what he had to do. Boo made the right decision, and although it did end up with Bob Ewell dead, Bob was a bad person and his two victims were as innocent as can be. The mockingbird reference Scout makes refers to Heck Tate wanting to keep the fact Boo killed Bob under the wraps. Heck believes "taking the one man who's done you and this town a great service an' draggin' him with his shy ways into the limelight..." (Lee 370) is a sin and refuses to do so. Acting this way is very courageous of Heck Tate. He could get in a lot of trouble because by trying to protect Arthur Radley, he is neglecting his job as sheriff, which is to provide justice. Heck Tate is providing justice though. Bob Ewell did some terrible things in his lifetime, and he no longer deserved to live if he was willing to murder children. Boo saved Jem and Scout, and if he doesn't want people disturbing him, that choice should be respected. Boo Radley is a good man and is the "mockingbird" that Scout was referring to.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Boo is actually a bad person, he was just trying to help.When Bob attacked Jem and Scout, they were in front of the Radley house. Boo, seeing what was happening, decided to help them and killed Bob with the knife Bob was using between Bob's own ribs. He isn't trying to hurt anyone, and the other adults recognize this. Heck Tate tries to protect him by saying, "Bob Ewell fell on his knife. He killed himself."(Lee 366). If people were to find out Boo killed Bob, he would still be deemed a psychopath and would probably be lynched.
ReplyDeleteBoo was just trying to help Jem and scout from being hurt and killed by Bob Ewell. Boo came from out of the Radley house to aid the two children that were being hurt by an elderly man in a fight that they could not win outside his house. Seeing the cruelty of Bob Ewell, Boo killed him with his Bob's own knife. Trying to kill innocent young children was enough for Boo to kill him and for Mr. Heck Tate to say that Bob Ewell had killed himself. "Bob Ewell fell on his knife." (Lee 366). Mr. Heck Tate did not believe that Bob Ewell killed himself, but he rather thought that killing a man of such ill moral values was ok. If Boo did not kill Bob Ewell then he would have come again to try and kill or hurt the Finch family in another way. A man like Bob Ewell is to risky to keep alive and Boo made the right decision to kill him whether it was an intentional or unintentional death.
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Arthur Radley had been watching Jem and Scout closely ever since they tried to communicate with him. Arthur must have developed some kind of feelings for them, as he left the safety of his home to save them. Something must have clicked inside Arthur’s head, and he realized that the lives of two children were more important than his comfort. Arthur had helped Jem and Scout before when Ms. Maudie’s house was on fire. When he put the blanket around Scout’s shoulders, he was telling them that he cared about them, and wanted to help them to the best of his ability. When introducing Arthur to Scout, Atticus says, “Jean Louise, this is Mr. Arthur Radley. I believe he already knows you” (Lee 363). Arthur has seen Scout so many times playing around his house that he already knows her well. He was probably watching the children playing and learning more about them. After a year of observing them, he became attached to them, and he had to act when the children were in danger.
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ReplyDeleteI definitely think that Boo Radley is a truly good man who has just become alienated from society because of his punishment for the crimes he committed many years ago. After a few years of imprisonment, Boo must have simply forgotten what it felt like to be free, and eventually, he didn't need to be kept in a cage. He had become so accustomed to being indoors that even when his father died, he decided to stay indoors. "They were white hands, sickly white hands that had never seen the sun," (Lee 362), Scout tells the readers when she sees Boo's hands. He had never left his house, and it's apparent that this is how Boo wants it to stay since Scout never sees him again. When Atticus and Heck Tate realize that Boo killed Mr. Ewell, they decide to keep it a secret since, "...taking the one man that has done you and this town a great service an' draggin' him with his shy ways into the limelight- to me, that's a sin," (Lee 369-370). By putting Boo in the spotlight after he'd done enough socializing to last him his whole life in one night, it would change his lifestyle... or kill the mockingbird in him. In this case, mockingbird means Boo's way of life, and as the book finished, we learned that being a mockingbird can mean many different things. Boo is a mockingbird that silenced a mad dog gone wild, and that's why it would be a sin to "kill" him.
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