...Mockingbird is rumours. The hole town of Maycomb is buzzing with different kinds of rumours. Some true and some false, their origins not many know. But they do know every inch of the made up tale. As the story progress the rumours get more and more violent. Causing characters in the novel emotional and some times physical pain. In this essay the difference between the way Atticus and Dill perceive rumours will be discussed. A rumour that seems to repeat itself throughout the novel is the rumour about Author Radley or more commonly known as Boo. In the rumours he is usually portrayed as some kind of lunatic child. “any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work” (Jem,9). Boo is blamed for any small crime done in the town, even though every time the crime was proved to be someone else, most of the town clings to this idea. Dill is intrigued by the Boo Radley rumors they drew him to go closer to the Radley house “but drew him no nearer than the light-pole on the corner” (Scout,9). Oppositely Atticus took no interest in the Boo Radley rumors brushing them off “Atticus's only answer was for him to mind his own business” (Scout,11). This rumor points out the difference in Dill and Atticus of age and maturity. Dill letting his imagination run wild, while Atticus had his own work to care about. Another rumor that shaped the lives of the two protagonists Jem and Scout is the rumor that Atticus Finch was a nigger lover. Although this rumor is in fact true; Atticus is...
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...Mockingbird is rumours. The hole town of Maycomb is buzzing with different kinds of rumours. Some true and some false, their origins not many know. But they do know every inch of the made up tale. As the story progress the rumours get more and more violent. Causing characters in the novel emotional and some times physical pain. In this essay the difference between the way Atticus and Dill perceive rumours will be discussed. A rumour that seems to repeat itself throughout the novel is the rumour about Author Radley or more commonly known as Boo. In the rumours he is usually portrayed as some kind of lunatic child. “any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work” (Jem,9). Boo is blamed for any small crime done in the town, even though every time the crime was proved to be someone else, most of the town clings to this idea. Dill is intrigued by the Boo Radley rumors they drew him to go closer to the Radley house “but drew him no nearer than the light-pole on the corner” (Scout,9). Oppositely Atticus took no interest in the Boo Radley rumors brushing them off “Atticus's only answer was for him to mind his own business” (Scout,11). This rumor points out the difference in Dill and Atticus of age and maturity. Dill letting his imagination run wild, while Atticus had his own work to care about. Another rumor that shaped the lives of the two protagonists Jem and Scout is the rumor that Atticus Finch was a nigger lover. Although this rumor is in fact true; Atticus is...
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...The children and the town become extremely fascinated by Boo’s existence because he has not been “seen for fifteen years” (10). As a result, the rumors regarding Boo’s isolation over the years have thus commenced in the town of Maycomb. The town gossip, Miss Stephanie Crawford, once told the town that “Boo drove [his] scissors into his parent’s leg” (11). Miss Stephanie fills the children’s imagination with stories of Boo. The children eventually create a game one summer where they reenact a scene in which Boo stabs Mr. Radley in the leg. The children even create a description of Boo’s appearance based on the rumors. When Dill asks Jem what Boo looks like, Jem says he “was about six-and-a-half feet tall”; he had “bloodstained” hands, “a long jagged scar” across his face and “yellow and rotten” teeth (13). The rumors about Boo become a topic of the children’s imagination as they try to depict an image of their peculiar neighbor. Another rumor pertaining Boo, according to Miss Stephanie, is she “found [Boo] looking in the window at her” one night (45). As more rumors about Boo develop, the people of Maycomb begin to fear Boo and avoid the Radley place. Although Lee depicts Boo as a mysterious and malevolent character from the neighborhood gossip, Boo’s subtle appearances throughout the...
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...valley surrounded by mountains with very high altitudes. The lush valley provides the town with a booming agriculture. However, the village specializes in selling an antique conglomeration of furniture, jewelry, and just about every other trinket one would want to lay eyes on. Galway became well-known for all their fabulous objects. Therein lay the problem. Their great wealth attracted the eye of a leprechaun. Now you must believe in leprechauns and unicorns, and you might believe that leprechauns are cute little characters dressed in green and full of fun, but they are actually nasty beasts. They’re devious creatures always on the lookout for bright shiny objects. They lead an itinerant life searching for valuables. They are surprisingly small in stature but very strong. They exercise everyday through aquatic sports, such as swimming, water polo, etc., and are very concerned about their figures. One day, a leprechaun named Patrick happened upon the small town. His eyes gleamed at the riches that lay before him, and instantly he wanted it all. However, he knew that he would need a plan to loot and carry off all of the riches. So, he ambled into town. He told the town folks that he and his buddies placed a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. His conjecture was that they would fall for this prank. Then, he waited and sure enough, during the next sun-shower, a rainbow appeared in the sky. The towns’ people foolishly left their beautiful possessions and went running off in either...
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...Throughout the beginning of the book Boo Radley has been seen as a person who hides himself and has no friends at all, he is considered as a dangerous person. However due to the curiosity from 3 kids, the hunt to discover what type of person Boo Radley is, begins. Boo Radley tries befriending the children in his own type of way, by placing small little things, as to what might resemble Boo Radley’s personality, inside a knothole of an oak tree. Some of the things he gave shows that Boo Radley is a man who is well-educated, due to the fact he won a spelling bee. However Boo Radley is antisocial, yet he would go as far as to protect children, and would not stab his parents, although it was not particularly proven whether he did or did not....
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...To Kill a Mockingbird, was written by Harper Lee who grew up in the racist South during the Great Depression. Influential to her novel, it takes place in Maycomb County, Alabama during the same time period. Scout, a young tomboyish girl, narrates the story of a trial. Atticus Finch, her and her brother Jem’s widowed father, is the defense lawyer for Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white girl. In Maycomb, opinions rumors spread like fire and the town is quick to construct opinions about those who are different. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and Mr. Dolphus Raymond, to prove that societal judgment makes people perceive outcasts as monsters. To begin, as an outcast, Boo Radley is visualized as...
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...Have you ever decided what a person is like based off of rumors? Can you really know a person just by what people say? This happens to many people. An example of such would be Arthur (Boo) Radley in the book To Kill A Mockingbird. Boo Radley is a secluded mysterious figure who never comes out of his house. Scout and Jem (who are young children) are fascinated with the stories and rumors of Boo radley and hope to meet him one day. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee represents the theme that rumors do not define a person through Arthur (Boo) Radley and his relationship with Atticus’s children (Scout and Jem) and how their relationship changes from the beginning to the end of the book. An example of Harper Lee using this theme would be at the beginning of the book. During the summer, in a small town called Maycomb, Scout and Jem meet a new...
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...In 1849 a man named James Wilson Marshal found flakes of gold in the sacromento valley. At the time James was a carpenter and worked at a sawmill called Sutter's mill. After James found gold he showed it to his boss, John Sutter. John insisted to keep it a secret, but eventually word got out. John wanted to keep the gold a secret not for riches and retirement, but for farms. John had always dreamed of turning the small towns of california into giant farming towns. With the gold from the river John had the power to do just that. When people of the city heard rumors of gold in the river they went to investigate themselves. When the people of the town found gold they started to spread the word. Some people in california didn't want to mine the gold,...
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...The Crucible and the Detroit riots have a lot in common, whether it be from comparing the mass hysteria, or people being falsely accused of terrible acts, the similarities are unmistakable. A small rumor can have giant effects and push people beyond a breaking point. Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible, is a very good example of how people react when they don’t know how to respond and they see violence as the only resolution, such as the residents in Detroit did during July of 1967. The two events are very similar if you consider the mass hysteria and several other factors. The Detroit riot of 1967 was a series of violent clashes between the city’s residents and the police department (Emeka). It remains of one the most violent uprisings in the...
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...Harper Lee is a story of growing up and learning how to treat others. It takes place in a small southern town called Maycomb and is told from the perspective of Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, a young southern girl. Throughout the story, Scout and her brother, Jem, learn the ways of the world and that judging people is not always the best idea. All in all, this book illustrates why one should not judge others before walking in their shoes through the characters of Mrs. Dubose, Mr. Raymond, and Mr. Boo Radley. Near the beginning of the story, Jem and Scout judge their impertinent, elderly neighbor, Mrs. Dubose, very harshly until they get to know her and realize that their judgment is very wrong.. The kids walk by Mrs. Dubose’s...
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...knows what happened to Anne’s first child. Some think she even abandoned her child on the island. After a few months, Anne returned to Calico’s ship but with s new crewmate, Mary Read. It did not take long for Anne and Mary to become friends. Some sailors even claimed they were in a romantic relationship. On October 1720, Captain Barnet an ex-pirate, who now is a part of the British army attacked Rackham’s ship called “Revenge”. Calico crew was at a disadvantage because the ship was anchored and most of his crew was drunk. They were celebrating that night because they captured a Spanish commercial. There was not much of a fight because only Mary and Anne resisted but were overpowered. Calico’s crew was taken to Port Royal, a coastal town located in Jamaica. The trial made a big impression after Mary’s and Anne’s background was revealed. Anne and Mary were both women who escaped from traditional restrictions and in their own way, fought for equality between men and women. Everyone was found guilty for the crime of piracy. The sentence was death by hanging. However, Anne and Bonny were spared, after claiming to be...
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...possible for such a case. In Salem rumors spread of witchcraft because a group of girls were discovered dancing in the woods (Miller). Soon afterwards Betty, a preacher's daughter, is afflicted and cant get up(Miller). Then Tituba, a slave, Abigail, the preacher’s niece, and the rest of the girls start to list the names of people in town that are practicing “witchcraft” (Miller). Do to the number of people jailed, the crops died and the cows broke out of the pastures and walked in the roads(Miller). Towards the end John Proctor, a farmer, gets Mary, one of the girls, to confesses that it is all for pretend, but when the other girls come out she accuses John of being the devil's man (Miller). At the end, John and seventeen others had been hung for practicing witchcraft(Miller). Afterwards the family members and those that were wrongly accused received compensation(Miller). The origin of the Rosewood Massacre was on January first...
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...In the small Town of Salem, author Arthur Miller shows how hysteria works in a crowd of people in the play, The Crucible The mass hysteria presented in the play is the witch trials and the Red Scare. The score could have been stopped in the Salem village if Abigail Williams and Betty Parris would have told the truth and not accuse the girls of connecting with the devil and practicing witchcraft and served their punishment. Abigail would have been able to stop this if she had not spread the rumor of witchcraft around the village and, also by not making accusations about Tituba being a witch. Because of her blaming Tituba, they know there is more than just one as Tituba says which, makes a panic for Parris. Abigail tells Mrs. Putnam about it when she blames Tituba. Abigail shouts to Parris, “She...
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...October 8, 1871, Chicago, Illinois, the windy city, the city that would soon be in blasting, blistering flames. A terrible sight for all of it’s citizens. Jim Murphy, the author of the book “The Great Fire,” informed us about many facts that it was definitely “a city ready to burn.” It started at the O’Learys house. Their house was filled with hay to feed the animals and coal for the winter. We’re not sure how the fire started, but there was a rumor that there was a lantern in the barn that a cow kicked over. The town was made many flammable items. First of all, the whole town was made of wood. Buildings, sidewalks, and roads were made of wood. All of the barns filled with hay, factories filled tons of coal and gas. “Most...
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...They labored in silence until Watkins drew up from a task. “There is something more, James. The Captain seems to have suffered a lack of judgment with the tragedy at the falls. For one, he divided his forces. He sent a number of the dead back to Oswego under a small escort. Essentially this move betrayed his position to an enemy. It left the men open to attack where they escorted in all sincerity a convoy of mere corpses. A waste of manpower if you ask me. Second, he raided the village with the remainder of his forces. In the process he lost a good deal of men on the field of battle, and let us not forget the skirmish with the cavalrymen. He escaped with plunder, I am told. It is his way of justifying an attack.” “Tell me, Watkins. How does the commandant at Oswego hold with unprovoked raids on local natives?” “Lord Carleton applies British law with a thick brush. An officer convicted of inciting unrest among the populations is subject to dismissal from the service, a fine, and incarceration.” “How about dealing in human flesh?”...
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