To Kill A Mockingbird Part I

To Kill a Mockingbird is an interesting read. The characters are very developed and life-like, and you continue to learn more about them. This is like the kids finding out that Atticus is an awesome shot. The young children grow up and change. Jem gets wiser and no longer thinks it is fun to tease Boo Radley. Scout is slowly growing up. Their main motivator is pleasing their father. Scout keeps growing out of prejudices and racism, while gaining wisdom. Everyone around her is stuck in their ignorance and prejudice.

The book makes you infer most everything for yourself. It never seems to state a person's description and attitude. Everything we get is from conversations and actions. The book didn't even tell us Scout was a girl until in a conversation. They also didn't give us a name to call her let alone her real name until 10 pages in. The book is confusing because of this. You have to fit names together like Boo being Arthur, and slowly draw a picture of the characters. It is also hard to complete the sections of self descriptions and appearances on the chart since the book doesn't say these things.

Boo Radley is an extremelyinteresting character. Although we never have met him, he captures our attention as well as the neighborhoods. He is kept in the house after disgracing his family. I believe he has remained childish and immature, never growing up. For one thing, he remains caged by Nathan Radley when he could rebel and walk out of the house. The other thing is he reaches out to Scout and Jem, two children. They are more accepting and he makes the connection by giving them Indian-Heads, gum, and a carving of them. I suppose he chose them because he watched them and saw they had so much life to his lack of. Whenever they mention him, I think of a child until I remember his age.

To Kill a Mockingbird held my interest and I am interested in how it will end.