Human's habit of being cruel to the truly innocent outsiders that we misunderstand, judge, and punish because we are more often than not afraid to do the right thing. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout is a young girl that loses her empathy, Boo Radley is an outcast in the community, and Bob Ewell is a very prejudice and bias towards others. When a person grows up they tend to lose their empathy and innocence. When people lose their innocence and grow up they tend to be hated and prejudice with no empathy, this is how social outcasts are chosen.
From when Scout was six to the age of eight years old she starts to understand the human nature and the racism of her town, she starts to lose her empathy in the process. She spends majority of her time with her brother Jem and the neighbor kid Dill, Scout still lives in a “childhood kingdom where nobody dies” (Millay). Until Scout learns about Tom Robinson and how the adults of the community give his no empathy, expect her dad just for his race and are very selfish about it. Not until Scout stood up for Tom and got the lynching party to stop did the adults find their empathy hidden deep down in their childish heart. Miss Maudie told Scout to “try to understand from others point of view and you won't be able to do that until you climb in their skin and walk around” (Lee 83). Miss Maudie was trying to get Scout to see the world from an adults point of view with not as much empathy as Scout has. Miss Maudie told Scout this so she could get along with the people of her community and so she could use this tool to help Tom Robinson. Scout uses the tools she learns and and is given throughout the story to help the outcasts and the hatred.
Boo Radley is the social outcast of Maycomb. Many of the children believe that he is a horrible person from the stories they have been told. Having seen a sample of the horrible things their fellow townspeople can do, choosing to stay out of the mess of humanity doesn’t seem like such a strange choice. The community was very bias and hatred, “tending to leave the weak ones behind” (Steinbeck 77). Even though the stories about Boo are not for sure true he should not have been lock in his house for all those years. But instead he should have let natural consequences take their toll, and maybe Boo would not be such a weak one or outcast. By all the People of the town they see that “inside the Radley house lived a malevolent phantom” (Lee 123). Many stories from Boo’s teenage years were what was told to the children to scare them of the Radley house. Little did the people know of Maycomb, that when Scout finally meets Boo he is saving their lives, for a good reason. Bob Ewell is trying to murder the Finch children. Boo did not just let true evil take over because he stood up for the good men and women and did not let the uneducated ones take over let it just happened. Instead he stopped the evil and returned back to his house never to come out again because he felt like an outcast.
In the small rural community of Maycomb there is a lot of prejudice, bias, and hate throughout the community. Although most everybody in town knows that the Ewells are a disgrace and not to be trusted. Bob Ewell is a very horrible man that believes “all humans are equal but some are more equal than others” (Orwell 118). Just for the color of your skin or your race. He tries to blame Tom Robinson for the abusing of his daughter, because Tom was African American. But evidence suggests and implies that Bob Ewell was the one that abused his daughter Mayella Ewell. After Bob Ewell gets humilated at the trial, he goes on a quest for revenge, becoming increasingly violent, still believing that, "colored folks do not belong here because white folks won't have them, so they don't belong anywhere" (Lee 246). Bob Ewell is an bad evil, that is very selfish. He follows his violent outrage by attempting to murder Jem and Scout Finch for revenge. But fortunately, for the Finch kids the social outcast of the town, Boo Radley stands up against the hate and stops him. Boo stands up against the evil and uses his empathy for the Finch kids to for that moment be an active citizen and help Maycomb for the better.
As people naturally grow up they need to save their empathy and keep their prejudice and hatred to themselves, we need to better the human’s cruel ways by starting with ourselves. Selfishness will not get you the American dream even though it is naturally implied, that life and liberty are about only your personal success and it is selfish for success, this is where you go from the Scout and lose your empathy because you have to be selfish to accomplish success. This is what Bob Ewell tried to do but he was stopped by the empathy and the social outcast of the town. The true source of evil in the To Kill A Mockingbird is society comes from the citizens but not the empathy and the outcasts. But rather the citizenship active responsible of and knowledgeable that the community lacks of. That the majority of Maycomb's society and the fact that most are not educated does not help the community for the better. Not just in Maycomb but in all of human kinds habits we need to stop being cruel to the innocent and judge others because we are afraid to do the right thing, instead the weaker ones need to stand up and we need to do the right thing as a human race.
From when Scout was six to the age of eight years old she starts to understand the human nature and the racism of her town, she starts to lose her empathy in the process. She spends majority of her time with her brother Jem and the neighbor kid Dill, Scout still lives in a “childhood kingdom where nobody dies” (Millay). Until Scout learns about Tom Robinson and how the adults of the community give his no empathy, expect her dad just for his race and are very selfish about it. Not until Scout stood up for Tom and got the lynching party to stop did the adults find their empathy hidden deep down in their childish heart. Miss Maudie told Scout to “try to understand from others point of view and you won't be able to do that until you climb in their skin and walk around” (Lee 83). Miss Maudie was trying to get Scout to see the world from an adults point of view with not as much empathy as Scout has. Miss Maudie told Scout this so she could get along with the people of her community and so she could use this tool to help Tom Robinson. Scout uses the tools she learns and and is given throughout the story to help the outcasts and the hatred.
Boo Radley is the social outcast of Maycomb. Many of the children believe that he is a horrible person from the stories they have been told. Having seen a sample of the horrible things their fellow townspeople can do, choosing to stay out of the mess of humanity doesn’t seem like such a strange choice. The community was very bias and hatred, “tending to leave the weak ones behind” (Steinbeck 77). Even though the stories about Boo are not for sure true he should not have been lock in his house for all those years. But instead he should have let natural consequences take their toll, and maybe Boo would not be such a weak one or outcast. By all the People of the town they see that “inside the Radley house lived a malevolent phantom” (Lee 123). Many stories from Boo’s teenage years were what was told to the children to scare them of the Radley house. Little did the people know of Maycomb, that when Scout finally meets Boo he is saving their lives, for a good reason. Bob Ewell is trying to murder the Finch children. Boo did not just let true evil take over because he stood up for the good men and women and did not let the uneducated ones take over let it just happened. Instead he stopped the evil and returned back to his house never to come out again because he felt like an outcast.
In the small rural community of Maycomb there is a lot of prejudice, bias, and hate throughout the community. Although most everybody in town knows that the Ewells are a disgrace and not to be trusted. Bob Ewell is a very horrible man that believes “all humans are equal but some are more equal than others” (Orwell 118). Just for the color of your skin or your race. He tries to blame Tom Robinson for the abusing of his daughter, because Tom was African American. But evidence suggests and implies that Bob Ewell was the one that abused his daughter Mayella Ewell. After Bob Ewell gets humilated at the trial, he goes on a quest for revenge, becoming increasingly violent, still believing that, "colored folks do not belong here because white folks won't have them, so they don't belong anywhere" (Lee 246). Bob Ewell is an bad evil, that is very selfish. He follows his violent outrage by attempting to murder Jem and Scout Finch for revenge. But fortunately, for the Finch kids the social outcast of the town, Boo Radley stands up against the hate and stops him. Boo stands up against the evil and uses his empathy for the Finch kids to for that moment be an active citizen and help Maycomb for the better.
As people naturally grow up they need to save their empathy and keep their prejudice and hatred to themselves, we need to better the human’s cruel ways by starting with ourselves. Selfishness will not get you the American dream even though it is naturally implied, that life and liberty are about only your personal success and it is selfish for success, this is where you go from the Scout and lose your empathy because you have to be selfish to accomplish success. This is what Bob Ewell tried to do but he was stopped by the empathy and the social outcast of the town. The true source of evil in the To Kill A Mockingbird is society comes from the citizens but not the empathy and the outcasts. But rather the citizenship active responsible of and knowledgeable that the community lacks of. That the majority of Maycomb's society and the fact that most are not educated does not help the community for the better. Not just in Maycomb but in all of human kinds habits we need to stop being cruel to the innocent and judge others because we are afraid to do the right thing, instead the weaker ones need to stand up and we need to do the right thing as a human race.