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And Boo even left little toys for the kids to find. All the kids are sure he is a monster that does terrible things to children, and Scout believes it to.īut in the end, it turns out Boo has been protecting Scout and the other children all along from Bob Ewell who wanted to harm them to get back at Atticus. And because we identify with her, we are as fearful as she is of Boo. Since Scout is the Main Character we see prejudice through her eyes – through the eyes of a child. That role goes to Boo Radley, the mysterious boogeyman who lives down the street. Ewell who puts any pressure on Scout (the Main Character) to change her beliefs. He wants to have the man lynched, so clearly he is out to stop Atticus, the Protagonist, and that makes Ewell the Antagonist.īut, it isn’t Mr. Bob Ewell is the father of the white girl who the black man is accused of raping. So, the Antagonist might be pushing to stop the Protagonist, but another character is the one pressuring the Main Character to abandon his or her beliefs.Īgain, we can see this at work in To Kill A Mockingbird. But, as with the Hero, they don’t have to be in the character. When these two elements are combined, you get a typical Villain. (The Influence Character is the one who’s point of activities and attitudes bring the Main Character to the point of considering changing or violating his own beliefs, morals, or standards. A Villain is another compound character who is both an Antagonist and ALSO the Influence Character. In a similar manner, an Antagonist is not a Villain. Scout is the Main Character and Atticus is the Protagonist. But we don’t see the story through his eyes, but through those of his young daughter, Scout. In fact, that is exactly how it is done in To Kill A Mockingbird. Atticus Finch, is an open-minded lawyer in a racially biased Southern town in the 1930s, trying to get a fair trial for a black man wrongly accused of raping a white girl. The Protagonist might be one character who is driving the quest forward, but the reader/audience identifies with a different character (sees the story through their eyes). But these elements don’t have to be in the same single character. When these two elements are combined, you get a typical Hero. A Hero is a compound character who, in addition to being a Protagonist is ALSO the Main Character (the one we identify with). To begin with, a Protagonist is not a Hero. But there is a lot more to know about these two essential characters, and the more you learn, the more powerful and effective your Protagonists and Antagonists will be. Ewell (the father of the plaintiff in Robinson’s case) on Halloween night, Scout truly learns the power of putting herself in another’s shoes, as it allows her to see that Boo isn’t scary or evil-he’s merely different, and deserves respect just like anyone else.That’s the simple answer, and it is true enough. When Boo saves Scout and Jem from being attacked by Mr. Scout struggles with her own prejudiced feelings, as when she can’t see the hypocrisy of hating dresses but thinking that boys shouldn’t learn to cook, or when she suggests that Tom Robinson is just a black person, and that it’s therefore normal and expected for people to treat him poorly. When Atticus, a lawyer, agrees to take on the defense of a black man, Tom Robinson, in a rape case, Scout demonstrates her hotheadedness by defending Atticus’s honor against their majority-white community’s vitriol-though she tries her best to follow through with Atticus’s request that she take the moral high ground and not fight back. Though Scout is just as terrified as Jem and Dill are of their neighbor Boo Radley, she’d rather be cautious about approaching Radley Place and ideally would give it a wide berth, but she often gets roped into Dill and Jem’s plans to somehow force Boo out of the house. She prefers summertime, when she can run around the neighborhood with Jem and their friend Dill, who proposes to Scout at the beginning of their second summer together. She finds Atticus in particular far more knowledgeable than her teachers at school, as her teachers take offense to the fact that Scout already knows how to read and write in cursive on the first day of first grade and force her to engage in mindless exercises. Scout adores and admires both Atticus and Jem, her older brother, who in her mind know everything there is to know. Many neighbors and family members take offense to her love of overalls, though her father, Atticus, defends her right to wear what she wants and doesn’t force her to act like a lady. Over the course of the novel’s three years, Scout grows from six to nine years old.
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