{"id":1798,"date":"2020-02-20T00:42:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T00:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2020-02-20T00:42:57","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T00:42:57","slug":"adams-response-to-harper-lees-to-kill-a-mockingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/uncategorized\/adams-response-to-harper-lees-to-kill-a-mockingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam\u2019s Response to Harper Lee\u2019s To Kill a Mockingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the final chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird, <\/em>we finally meet \u201cBoo\u201d or Aurthur Radley. It\u2019s this interaction with the children and the other members of the community that end up at the house that we are able to get a better sense of who he really is. The character we meet is in fact not one that lives up to the violent rumours and stigma the community has built around him but instead is a very quiet man who seemingly is just trying to help. The rumours that surrounded Boo Radley gave him a disability where one never existed and because of this essentially made him an outcast from society.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right from the beginning of the text the children make assumptions about Boo based around things they\u2019ve heard but cant confirm. He\u2019s demonized in the eyes of not only the children but the town as a whole, solely because he doesn\u2019t leave his house or interact with other members of the community. The reason why isn\u2019t clear to anyone, but that makes no difference in stopping the assumptions about him and his past. Most of the stories are wild and outlandish and paint him as someone crazy and unable to control himself. In a way, I\u2019m reminded of The Creation, from Frankenstein<\/em>. The creation is quiet, reserved and attempts to make friends or at least foster relationships long enough to not feel lonely. In that case The Creation was pushed until he was unstable and this resulted in multiple deaths. Boo Radley does not resort to, or have any intentions of killing people, but the same base is present in both of their cases. People see an individual who spends time alone (for whatever reason) as broken, scary, crazy, or otherwise an outcast and creates an identity for that person based on nothing but their own views, not taking into account the characteristics or personality of the individual concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we finally meet Boo Radley, we are able to see who he is for ourselves without the influence of stories told by others. While he only says the absolute minimum he can, just his presence and actions disprove most of the theories surrounding him, many of which the children believed. This proves how we see people in society without really knowing them. We will give people an identity of being \u201cbroken\u201d or \u201ccrazy\u201d without ever getting to know them because of the notions we have of disabled people having those characteristics. There\u2019s nothing that proves Boo isn\u2019t just an introvert, but the rumours make that almost impossible to believe. It\u2019s common in society for us to do very similar things. I\u2019m not suggesting that these are intentionally bad assumptions and we set out to be rude and inconsiderate, but for example, people tend to stare and assume when they see someone in a wheelchair or with a mental disability. If we can take one thing away from the interactions the children have with Boo, it\u2019s to not assume what may or may not be going on with someone where it isn\u2019t your place to do so. Get to know people and understand who they really are before making accusations or spreading rumors that can harm people more than it may seem.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Word Count: 543<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hereby declare upon my word of honor that I have neither given nor received unauthorized help on this work.
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In the final chapters of To Kill a Mockingbird, we finally meet \u201cBoo\u201d or Aurthur Radley. It\u2019s this interaction with the children and the other members of the community that end up at the house that we are able to get a better sense of who he really is. The character we meet is in … Continue reading “Adam\u2019s Response to Harper Lee\u2019s To Kill a Mockingbird”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcJhts-t0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dislit2020.chris-foss.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}