A Comparison of the Portrayal of Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird :: English Literature

A Comparison of the portrayal of Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird and Miss Havisham in great expectations.In To Kill a Mockingbird the author uses a retrospective narration,this means that we can see events through the eye of a child, yetalso has the intelligence of an adult to explain the eventsthouroghly. Because narrator has somebodyal experience of what happenedwe have a closer insight into the details. This method of aspectmeans that we can understand other characters feelings more easily,and the settings and ways of Maycomb. Great Expectations is similarto To Kill a Mockingbird it also has institutes the events of a personfrom childhood to becoming an adult. The bosh follows Pip, who is themain character in this novel it shows him as a child, beingintroduced to Miss Havisham, then later on as a main person in MissHavishams life. Pip and Scout help us to understand the feelings ofother characters..To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the 1930s, in a townsfolk called Maycomb.I t is a small town with a close-knit alliance, it has a deserted feelto it, however it is very tense, with a lot of families and rumoursand gossip. Maycomb is also a claustrophobic place to be, with theidentical houses, the grass on the sidewalks (unkempt), and also it isvery dusty, hot and humid. The neighbours are known to be verysuspicious and judgemental. It is a reserved community and it can getvery dull. In Great Expectations, in the chapters that we have read,rather then it being concentrated on a town, it is mostly concentratedon Miss Havishams House. Satis House, which stand for very big andsatisfactory. Within this house everything is kept the way it was atthe time of the wedding. With cobwebs, and dust on all the furniture.Even the environ of the satis house was dying there was a largebrewery, no brewing was going on in it, this shows that everythingaround miss Havisham was a symbol of what was indoors her. It showsthat she is dead within. Both Boo Radley and Miss Havis ham live inseclusion, this means they prefer to be cut off from the outsideworld, a quote that show this is some of the windows had been walledup However they both have someone to help them with life, Boo Radleyhas his brother Nathan, and Miss Havisham has her adopted daughterEstella. Miss Havisham acts this way because of what happened to her in the beginning in her life she was left at the altar.