Saturday, July 2, 2011

I need a quote that helps prove "being different" in the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, preferably something about Tom Robinson or Boo Radley.

Boo Radley is certainly the most unusual character in
To Kill a Mockingbird, but there are a few other eccentric citizens
who can more easily be found on the streets of
Maycomb. 


BOO RADLEY.  Boo is
never seen until the final chapters of the story. He is a recluse, hiding in the Radley
house until darkness falls, when he makes his unseen rounds of the neighborhood. Gossip
runs rampant about Boo around town--he eats squirrels, poisons pecans, and peeks in
windows. But in the end, he shows an unexpected heroic side when he comes to the aid of
his neighbors.


readability="6">

His face was as white as his hands... his cheeks
were thin to hollowness... his gray eyes were so colorless I thought he was blind... His
hair was dead and
thin...



DOLPHUS
RAYMOND
.  A wealthy white man who lives with his black mistress, Dolphus
ranks second only to Boo as a subject of town gossip. He is misunderstood and he likes
it that way. He deliberately weaves about the town, pretending to be drunk as he sips
from a straw in a bottle hidden by a paper sack.


readability="7">

As Mr. Dolphus Raymond was an evil man, I
accepted his invitation reluctantly... I had a feeling that I shouldn't be here
listening to this sinful man... but he was
fascinating.



MISSES
TUTTI &
FRUTTI.  Only mentioned once
in the story (in Chapter 27), the sisters Sarah and Frances Barber were known as
"Tutti and Frutti" to those in Maycomb. Perhaps they were the oddest couple in Maycomb:
They were Republicans, Northern Alabamans, unmarried, deaf, and they had the only house
with a cellar in town.


readability="9">

... why they wanted a cellar, nobody knew, but
they wanted one and they dug one, and they spent the rest of their lives chasing
generations of children out of
it. 


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