To Kill a Mockingbird Podcast

To Kill a Mockingbird Podcast, by Nicolás Martínez

In this podcast I will answer these questions about chapter 5: What reasons does Atticus give for the children not to play the Boo Radley game? Do you think he is right? Why? What sort of man is Atticus? What do you think about his role as a father? Support with evidence.

The reasons that Atticus Finch gives to Scout, Jem and Dill for not to play the Boo Radley game, and desist for their intentions of giving him the message, is that they need to respect other people, not laughing or making fun of them, including Mr. Radley. Near the end of Chapter 5, the 3 children were discovered by Atticus outside Radley place, when Jem was trying to deliver a note for ‘Boo’. Atticus asked them to stop bothering Mr. Radley, as we can see in this passage:

 “Son,” he said to Jem, “I’m going to tell you something and tell you one time:

stop tormenting that man. That goes for the other two of you.”

In my opinion, Atticus argument is valid, because, as Scout reflects in her narration, Arthur Radley ‘had the right to stay inside his own house free from the attentions of inquisitive children’.

Atticus Finch is a very special man, and the reasons why he is consider one of the most memorable characters in literature, is because he represents a model of father and lawyer, as we previously listened on the two listening tasks, this term.

From my perspective, he is always trying to educate their children in the best way possible, and he used the situation described previously to achieve that goal, as the narrator express in her final reflection: “Lastly, we were to stay away from that house until we were invited there, we were not to play an asinine game he had seen us playing or make fun of anybody on this street or in this town.”