Gossip in Maycomb

 The gossip that has gone around Maycomb almost always had something to do with the Radley house. Jem for being one of the many to never see Boo Radley described him very in depth. Saying that boo was six and a half feet tall, judging from the tracks he left. He ate raw squirrels and any neighborhood cat that he could find. Which he had bloodstains on his hands since he killed this all with his bare hands and once blood is on your hands it never comes out. When Jem described his face there was a huge scar covering half of it and his few teeth that where there were as yellow as could be. But when it came down to what had happen in the Radley house there were lots of different stories. Boo Radley was a little kid and he was sitting on the couch cutting things out of a magazine when he stabbed his mother out of nowhere in the leg. No one knows if that’s really what happened they just assume this from what the adult in the neighborhood tell them, and boo a day in the children’s life makes it very easy for them to believe whatever they hear.

There was also a lot of gossip going around about Jem and Scouts father, Atticus. He was a lawyer in the town and sometimes had to fight cases, where he knew he may lose. His most recent case is about a black man, and most of the town is finding it hard to take his side. They actually have their own views on him. He would get called a nigger lover for defending a black man. Not only did this happen at school but when they went to celebrate Christmas with their family he got called it there too. Francis had heard all this from his grandmother, he also heard that dill was poor and had a bad family life. He moved from family member to family member because he didn’t have one place to stay. In the summer he would stay with Miss Rachel, but not to visit for the summer it was because they didn’t want him. 

All this gossip relates to the movie doubt about the gossip because they both talk about gossip in a negative way. The scene was talking about how the feathers went everywhere, which it spread beyond reach. The old lady said that it was impossible to get every feather. Making gods point that gossip also spreads everywhere not just to one person that can be untold but to everyone around. Like in To Kill a Mockingbird gossip always comes back around to Scout , being spread through family, friends ,at school, the adults, everyone in the town would know about how Atticus was a nigger lover , and how Boo Radley was a man to be feared of.

The Starting Life of Harper Lee

         Born on April 28, 1926 Harper Lee was the writer of the great novel to Kill a Mocking Bird. Published in the 1960’s she also owned part of the local newspaper.

Her father was a lawyer, and her mother had a mental illness. Harper lived in Monroeville, Alabama most of her childhood life. She was a loner much of her life she had one friend growing up, Truman Capote who also was interesting in being a writer. She was interested in English literature in high school and went to Huntingdon College in Montgomery, then later transferred to the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. She became the editor of the humor magazine there called Rammer Jammer. Harper lee got accepted to a law school and went there, that is when she told her family about her passion for writing so she went to a school in New York. Also she reunited with her old friend Truman, and worked for him in 1959, as a research assistant. A year later she published her first and only novel after 2 years of having it edited. It was a popular book, she sold over 15 million copies. Harper lee was happy with her success of her story and two years it was recreated into a movie .

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