To Kill a Mockingbird Journal Three Chapters 21- Essays

To Kill a Mockingbird Journal Three : Chapters 21-31 By: Saima Vedachhia "Well, it'd be sort of like shootin ' a mockingbird, wouldn't it"( Page 370). Scout's response to her father's question yet again reveals to us her magnificent understanding of life has to bring. Scout is quite young, and her father is unsure about if she understands everything that her father and the sheriff had to say . However, she amazes him and makes him really happy when she compares Arthur Radley to a Mockingbird. Just like a Mockingbird, Boo has never harmed anybody but rather saved the lives of two innocent children and it would be a sin to bring him to trial for the death of Bob Ewell. This quote basically sums up the novel by proving to us how wrong it is to bring upon hurt to someone innocent. Boo is a symbol representing a mockingbird in this book, he is an innocent character who is misjudged many times. Along with Boo, Tom Robinson was also criticized and judged for someone who he really wasn't. A Mockingbird does truly sum up the book i n a snap of a finger, but I believe that this book is also about civilization and the judgements we make. Maycomb repeatedly makes inferences and opinions based on one's appearances, struggles, status, and their situations. Tom tries to escape prison because he knew that the colour of his skin wont allow him to leave the four walls he was trapped in forever, according to what judge thought was where he belonged. The decision was already made before the trial, because everyone assumed that all black men lie. This is really stereotypical , people of colour can be telling the truth and not lying. He was already judged and criticized since the day he was born. In the book Scout proves herself as a young kid to be a very mature and understanding person when she say "Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough" (Page 374). At this moment, Scout now und erstands the truth behind Boo Radley and start to be understanding with him and begins to realize the false theory and judgement people had about him. As she was standing on the Radley's porch, Scout now finally sees the world from how Boo point of view. The man she used to be terrified of, was the man who had saved her and her brother's life. This helps her to realize that the world will always tell you who a person is, when in reality they know nothing but rumours from one another. Scout finally goes to the Radley house, indicate and represents her growth as a human being. Bob Ewell had played a major role in death of Tom Robinson and was so cruel and evil that he wanted to kill Atticus's children, but karma didn't let him go and he was killed for all of his bad actions to everyone. This just goes to show that the phrase "What goes around comes around" truly does exist. The people of Maycomb made decisions, criticized, judged and assumed facts about people. It was unfa ir town, and gave certain privileges to certain people. It was a town that believe rumours to be true and thought being dishonest was a normal thing to do. The town is surely make-belief, but the people, and the situations are not. Even in today's society , we have people who think that they are given the authority to make decisions and judgements about a certain type of group of people. The double-standards and the unfair decisions still exist. Some people are still thought to be "better" than others. If this book that was written a century ago is still something that we can relate to today, then we can see how many things have change in life but human being still stay the same. We need to stop making judgement by only what we see, because there is more to this world that than what your two eyes could see. My last statement is this