Essay About Arthur Radley And Dills Aunt

“To Kill A Mockingbird” (Analysis)
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The book To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee. It
was published in 1960 then it went on to win the Pulitzer prize in
1961 and was later made into an Academy Award winning film. Harper Lee
always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is
regarded as a masterpiece of American Literature. There are so many
characters in this book that I cant name all of them. Here are most
of the characters.
The Finch family contains of Atticus (The head of the
household), Aunt Alexandra (Atticuss sister), (Jem) Jeremy (The
oldest of Atticuss two children), (Scout) Jean Louise (The youngest
of the two . She also trys to be a boy by doing boy things). And you
cant forget their black maid. Her name is Calpurnia.
Miss Rachael is Dills aunt that lives in Maycomb. Dill is a
friends with Jem and Scout. According to Scout they are married. (Boo)
Arthur Radley is the person that takes Jem back to his house after Jem
gets hurt by Bob Ewell. Tom Robinson is a black man that was accused
of raping Mayella Ewell. Bob Ewell is Mayellas father. He is out for
revenge on Atticus for what he did to him and his daughter. Mayella is
Bobs daughter who supposedly got raped by Tom Robinson. Judge Taylor
is the Judge of Maycomb County. Heck Tate is the county law official.
I think the protagonist in the story is Atticus Finch because
he has the main part and he has the biggest decision to make. The
decision being whether to defend or not to defend Tom Robinson.
To Kill a Mockingbird is set in Maycomb County, an imaginary
district in Southern Alabama. The time is the early 1930s, the years
of the Great Depression when poverty and unemployment were widespread
in the United States.
The story begins during the summer when Scout and Jem meet a
new playmate named Dill who has come from Mississippi to spend the
summer with his Aunt Rachael. Dill is fascinated by the neighborhood
gossip about “Boo” Radley. Egged on by Dill, Jem and Scout try to
think up ways to lure him out of his house.
Soon it is Summer again , and Dill returns for another visit.
The childrens plans for making contact with Boo Radley grew bolder
this year, and on Dills last night they decide to sneak up onto the
Radley porch and spy on Boo. Jem goes first, but just as he reaches
the window, Nathan Radley catches site of them and scares them off
with a blast from a shot gun.
Jem realizes that Boo is not a monster after all, but has been
playing along with them. Scout does not figure this out until the
winter, on the night that the house of their neighbor burns to the
ground. While Scout is standing outside in the cold, someone sneaks up
behind her and places a blanket around her. Later, Scout and Jem
realize that there was only one person in town who has not already at
work fighting the fire and that was Boo.
Now that Jem and Scout realize that Boo is basically a kind
person, their interest in the Radley family begins to fade. In the
meantime, they learn that their father has become the defense lawyer
for Tom Robinson, who is charged with raping Mayella Ewell.
As the trial of Tom Robinson grows nearer, the children become
more aware of the strong feeling it has aroused in everyone in
Maycomb. One day their housekeeper takes Jem and Scout to visit her
church, and the children realize for the first time that the black
parishioners are supporting Tom Robinsons wife.
Two nights before the trial is to start, a group of men come
to the Finch house to tell Atticus about threats against Tom
Robinsons life. Atticus spends the next night camped out at the jail
to defend Tom from the mob. Jem, Scout and Dill go downtown to check
on Atticus and arrive at the same time as a group of men, who have
come to kill Tom. Scout recognizes one of the men in the group as
Walter