The smell of dead rotten bodies attracts rats. They are everywhere you look and some are even as big as Felix our cat. The other night I was woken up by Johnny screaming. As I looked towards him I could see a big rat (the one the size of Felix) had nibbled through his haversack and tunic to get to his flesh. With a cry of horror I threw the rat twenty yards into no man’s land.
In part one, Scout is terrified of Boo Radley because of stories Jem and the other kids in town talk about him. They have never seen or talked to him and yet they are still afraid and believe most of the things they hear. The stories about “Boo” Radley eating squirrels and cats were enough to frighten them up. Scout and her brother
Dolphus Raymond is objected to this discrimination because of his choice to have relations with an African American woman. The people in Maycomb judge Dolphus Raymond for having children with the African American woman and think poorly of his decisions. To avoid confrontation with anyone as to why he chooses to live his life like that, he walks around drinking a beverage from a brown paper bag and sways when he walks. Scout, Jem, and Dill have a conversation with him and realize that he is not an alcoholic, he just pretends to be to avoid people from questioning his actions. Aunt Alexandria too shows this behavior when Scout asks if Walter Cunningham can come over for lunch.
Why we do not worry about how to break these racial barriers, instead of thinking about the differences and war? But gladly, not everyone is selfish; there are also people who show interest in change as Atticus…those few are the people who manage to change the world. this novel leaves us the lesson that we should not Judge people by their appearance or their customs, because we are all equal and nobody is lower or higher. If we Judge a person just because it is different without giving an opportunity to defend themselves, we can make a big mistake and end the life of that person ... we have to think a little more in the others and stop being
Instead of preaching that one day the blacks would have equality and preaching wrong, Booker T. Washington preached to them that being equal is not what it is all about. He did this so the blacks would not lose faith and eventually give their hopes up on being equal. They ended up focusing on themselves and their brothers and dealt with the system. They accepted themselves as blacks into this nation. In today's day and age for example, there are people who are still racist, people who don't accept blacks because of their color and culture, but today blacks understand that and accept it.
People like to criticize work that tells of historical events and does not provide authentic details, so Mark Twain would have been doing this novel an injustice by not including the N word in his book. It would have
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).
Ralph Ellison's protagonist in "Battle Royal" and O’Connor’s protagonist in “Good Country People” are both victims of their own beliefs and prejudices, which can be also related to their innocence. This is definitely both characters’ biggest flaw. In “Battle Royal” the protagonist is not named but is believed to be a black child in the south when racism was still a problem. He is asked to give a speech at a white men’s meeting and beliefs himself to be a “potential Booker T. Washington”. He was not experienced and did not know better than to decline the invitation.
He was stumbilin’ on some rocks and since most of dem were savages, dey thought da shawdowy figure was the beast coming to attack dem so dey attacked first. The bit him an’ tore at his skin. Poor boy… Johnny died because a boulder dropped on his head an’ he fell forty feet to his death. This was also another sad death… Nobody believed da little boy with da birthmark about da beastie-thing. And dat is how he died.
Of course that includes the usual suspects like puppies, kittens, bunnies, & Bambi, but I even cringe at the thought of somebody killing a mouse! I hate hunting. I can’t stand the thought of it. Anytime I over-hear somebody start to talk about anything to do with the subject, I put my fingers in my ears or hum a tune in my head to drown it out.