To Kill A Mockingbird response
After reading To Kill a Mockingbird most people might represent Dill as a dejected character, but I deem Dill Harris presents himself confidently. To begin with, he has an eccentric imagination; therefore, he just makes up stories as he goes along. For instance, when Jem and Scout asked him about his father, Dill told them he had a beard. When Dill forgot his lie, and said his father did not have a beard, he was confronted by Scout and Jem. He fabricated an explanation instantly- his memory wasn’t good, and his father shaved his beard last summer. Dill will tell you anything that sounds interesting with the notion that everyone is naïve, when in reality, even seven-year-old Scout knows that Dill is not credible: “Dill Harris could tell the biggest ones I ever heard. Among other things, he had been up on a mail plane seventeen times, he had been to Nova Scotia, he had seen an elephant, and his granddaddy was Brigadier General Joe Wheeler and left him his sword” (p63). He is so self-confident that he can just make up lies like they’re the truth; after all, he is only a boy. Furthermore, Dill concocts these extravagant plans to keep himself entertained throughout the summer- positive that they will succeed without fault. He is devoted to getting Boo Radley to come out of his house- first daring Jem to touch the house and then trying to leave a note in his window as bait, shows his certainty in the plots. He’s not scared of Boo, he’s intrigued. Before Dill left for the summer, he proposed marriage to Scout, and kissed her in front of Jem (a sure sign of his confidence.) In addition, after he was told he could not come back to Maycomb, young Dill knew he wanted to be there. He deceived his mother, stole money from her, took a train, walked a few miles, and then hid out on the back of somebody’s wagon the rest of the way. He was extremely certain he was going to make it to Maycomb. When he arrives, he talks with a slight grin on his face about how his mother is most