Thursday, October 15, 2015
"The Radley Place had ceased to terrify me, but it was no less gloomy, no less chilly under its great oaks, and no less uninviting." Explore this with reference to Scout's development. (Mitch)
As Scout becomes older and starts to mature, she loses her childish ways. She is not afraid of the "Radley House" anymore. On (Lee 324) Scout states, " The Radley place ceased to terrify me, but it was no less gloomy, no less chilly under its great oaks, and no less uninviting." She has seemed to lose her empathy for Boo Radley. She used to walk by and feel sad for him and his situation: Boo being trapped in that house for many years for doing wrong. Now she does not seem to care. She cared when he was doing good, putting blankets around her, leaving her surprises in the tree, but all of that is forgotten and it is now just looked at as any old house, not the scary Radley House it used to be.
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I agree that Scout is maturing, which makes the Radley Place less scary. Also, I think that Scout is beginning to realize that what she was doing; obsessing over Boo with Dill and Jem was not nice. I do disagree that Scout doesn't care about Boo anymore. I think that as she is getting older, she is starting to care about him in a different way. Jem tells her that Boo probably keeps himself locked up in his house all the time because he wants to. In the beginning of the book, Scout was more scared of Boo. Now, she is starting to understand and sympathize with him. At the beginning of chapter 26, Scout walks by the Radley Place everyday after school. "What reasonable recluse wants children peeing through his shutters, [and] delivering greetings on the end of a fishing-pole" (Lee 324). This quote shows Scout realizing that she, Dill, and Jem may have actually been traumatizing Boo, rather than him traumatizing them and their neighbors! All in all, I think that Scout actually does care about Boo, and also now feels bad for all of the things that she, Dill, and Jem put him through.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mitch when he says that she does not feel empathy anymore for Boo Radley, but I do not think it is because she does not care. I think that because she is maturing and learning more, she realizes that Boo is not really trapped. Boo is in the house because he is shy and does not want to come out. He comes out when he wants to and he does the right thing. He gives Scout a blanket during the fire. After Atticus says, "Scout can thank him [Boo Radley] for covering her up" (Lee 96). Also, as Scout grows up she realizes that Jem, Dill, and she were being obnoxious to Boo. Scout says, "what reasonable recluse wants children peeing through his shutters, delivering greetings on the end of a fishing-pole, and wandering in his collards at night?" (Lee 324). Right there Scout gives all the obnoxious actions Dill, Jem, and she did.
ReplyDeleteI think this is really a sign of maturity too. When Scout was young she would obsess about wanting to see Boo with her brother and Dill, but as she grew the house really left her mind. Not completely, because she is still a child, however she now doesn't think as much about it and it isn't her centre of attention when she walks by it. The house is like a toy she used as a kid and still kind of likes it but not as much.
ReplyDeleteAs Scout is growing, she is developing into being more mature and becoming less scared of the Radley house. She starts to know that inside that house, there is someone who is caring. It seems to her that the Radley house is not a scary place anymore. She doesn't have to tremble or run away every time she walks by their house. Now she's older and realizes that Boo isn't a bad person. I disagree with what Mitch said about how she doesn't care. Scout does care about him because she wants to meet him and she's not scared anymore. She knows now that she shouldn't be playing tricks with Dill and Jem about the Radleys. Boo is a person too and now that Scout is older, she realizes it. She starts to walk by his house like any normal day, without any reaction. Jem begins to understand why Boo stays in his house,". . . it’s because he wants to stay inside" (Lee 304). Even Jem starts to mature about making fun of Boo Radley. They both understand that Boo isn't trapped inside his house as Ben said, he chooses to be in there and he's happy about it. That's mostly what Scout cares about.
ReplyDeleteI do not agree with Mitch when he said that Scout does not care anymore. I think that Scout is growing older now and realizing that Boo isn't staying in his house because he is scared to come out, but because he is shy and does not want to come out. In the beginning of the book Boo was made out to be a bad person because of the rumors that had been told, but as the book progressed, Scout begins to realize he isn't such a bad person.
ReplyDeleteI do not agree with Mitch when he said that Scout does not care anymore. I think that Scout is growing older now and realizing that Boo isn't staying in his house because he is scared to come out, but because he is shy and does not want to come out. In the beginning of the book Boo was made out to be a bad person because of the rumors that had been told, but as the book progressed, Scout begins to realize he isn't such a bad person.
ReplyDeleteI would agree with Julia on that Scout that Scout does care, it's just that as she gets older, she uses empathy to realize that Arthur Radley isn't such a bad guy. Empathy has played an enormous role throughout the book and it is exaggerated in these final chapters. Boo Radley has been a mysterious character all throughout the book, but at the end Harper Lee shows us that Boo only has good intensions towards the children. Boo has really become a "mockingbird" character at the end of this novel.
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