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

A Comparison of the portrayal of snicker 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 notify see events through the eyes of a child, yet too has the tidings of an adult to explain the eventsthouroghly. Because narrator has personal experience of what happenedwe have a closer insight into the details. This method of reflectionmeans that we can encounter other(a) typesetters cases feelings more easily,and the settings and ways of Maycomb. Great Expectations is similarto To Kill a Mockingbird it also has shows the events of a personfrom childhood to becoming an adult. The story follows Pip, who is themain character in this novel it shows him as a child, beingintroduced to Miss Havisham, hence 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 town called Maycomb.It is a small town with a close-knit community, it has a deserted feelto it, however it is truly 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 spity, 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 gravid 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 surrounding of the satis house was dying in that respect was a largebrewery, no brewing was going on in it, this shows that everythingaround miss Havisham was a symbol of what was within her. It showsthat she is dead within. both Boo Radley and Miss Havisham live inseclusion, this means they prefer to be cut off from the outsideworld, a quote that show this is close to 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 preliminary in her life she was left at the altar.