Tamou
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Okay, so it probably sounds random, but I recently read the book in school.
I thought of Michael the entire time.
I mean, Boo is judged by Scout and Jem in the beginning (and the rest of Maycomb). Although he is the object of their cruel judgements, he still loves them as his own children.
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
Both Boo and Michael are innocent in every aspect (and I don't mean the trial), and their very presence brings beauty into the world.
Scout realises this in the end of the novel.
"He was still leaning against the wall. He had been leaning against the wall when I came into the room, his arms down and across his chest. As I pointed he brought his arms down and pressed the palms of his hands agains the wall. They were white hands, sickly white hands that had never seen the sun, so white they stood out garishly against the dull cream wall in the dim light of Jem's room...His face was as white as his hands, but for a shadow on his jutting chin. His cheeks were thin to hollowness; his mouth was wide; there were shallow, almost delicate indentations at his temples, and his gray eyes were so colorless I thought he was blind....as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears."
Here she starts to see a human side to him, behind all her judgements.
'Mr. Arthur, bend your arm down here, like that. That's right, sir.' I slipped my hand into the crook of his arm. He had to stoop a little to accomodate me, but if Miss Stephanie Crawford was watching from her upstairs window, she would see Arthur Radley escorting me down the sidewalk, as any gentleman would do."
(When Boo asks her if she could walk him home)
Sorry for the long post (and if this is in the wrong place, please move it ), but I just wanted to see if anyone else noticed this.
I thought of Michael the entire time.
I mean, Boo is judged by Scout and Jem in the beginning (and the rest of Maycomb). Although he is the object of their cruel judgements, he still loves them as his own children.
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
Both Boo and Michael are innocent in every aspect (and I don't mean the trial), and their very presence brings beauty into the world.
Scout realises this in the end of the novel.
"He was still leaning against the wall. He had been leaning against the wall when I came into the room, his arms down and across his chest. As I pointed he brought his arms down and pressed the palms of his hands agains the wall. They were white hands, sickly white hands that had never seen the sun, so white they stood out garishly against the dull cream wall in the dim light of Jem's room...His face was as white as his hands, but for a shadow on his jutting chin. His cheeks were thin to hollowness; his mouth was wide; there were shallow, almost delicate indentations at his temples, and his gray eyes were so colorless I thought he was blind....as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor's image blurred with my sudden tears."
Here she starts to see a human side to him, behind all her judgements.
'Mr. Arthur, bend your arm down here, like that. That's right, sir.' I slipped my hand into the crook of his arm. He had to stoop a little to accomodate me, but if Miss Stephanie Crawford was watching from her upstairs window, she would see Arthur Radley escorting me down the sidewalk, as any gentleman would do."
(When Boo asks her if she could walk him home)
Sorry for the long post (and if this is in the wrong place, please move it
), but I just wanted to see if anyone else noticed this.
