Examples Of Fear In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Just like the people in the Great Depression, Harper Lee’s characters in To Kill a Mockingbird, fear results in the making of irrational decisions. For example, the character Scout, creates an atmosphere around herself that she establishes which shows she is frightened towards Boo Radley. For instance, Scout runs by the Radley house “ as fast as I could, not stopping, until I reached the safety of our front porch.”(pg 44) Scout’s actions show how she feels about the Radley place. She doesn’t feel safe until she on her own front porch. Fear causes Scout’s actions to become hastily and irrational. Throughout the Great Depression, the fear that Roosevelt addresses in his speech, has a numerous amount of reactions to that fear “... unjustified