- To Kill a Mockingbird With this quote, Lee is trying to convey the idea that you can’t understand someone because you can’t always see through their point of view. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem talks about Boo Radley, stating, “There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time” (Lee 16). Scout and Jem judge who Boo Radley based off of rumors. They never really get to understand who he is as a person. People perceive things differently and view situations around them with different sorts of mindsets, so ultimately, someone’s perception of something might be different from someone else’s.
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Before the jury was to vote, Atticus highlights, “She was white, and she tempted a Negro. She did something that in our society is unspeakable: she kissed a black man. Not an old Uncle, but a strong young Negro man” (Lee 272). The use of biased words and perceptions distorted the truth of what really happened because such words could mean a positive or negative slant for one side or another.
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““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.”” (Lee 119).
- To Kill a Mockingbird This piece of dialogue expresses how like mockingbirds, there are innocent people who are ostracized and hated. Mockingbirds have been known to be killed on accident because their calls are