Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee - 1484 Words

Imagine a hole that radiates gifts every time you visit it. Now picture that being stuffed with such force, that your gifts seem like they don’t exist anymore. In the late Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, a child named Jem Finch always peeked his head inside a tree on the street right across him. He found the tree always being filled with goodies, filling his heart with pleasure, but later filled with cement, ultimately filling Jem’s open heart with pain. Scout Finch, Jem’s sister grew up feeling both the pain and the pleasure through violence. She always fought her classmates, out of rage, but later changed to a more stable being, to her pleasure. Dill, a friend of the Finch family ran away from his home in Meridian because of†¦show more content†¦The frustration expressed by these actions displayed a pain that he had felt before, which has a deep effect on his own childhood ever since. The box was meant to be a gift, something to tell h im â€Å"it was alright† (Lee 148-149, but Jem knew it wasn’t. He knew he lost someone dear to him, and the box in the flames represent his own heart, an object surrounded by the flame of pain. Scout on the other hand, experienced pain through another person. Aunt Alexandra, a relative of Scout has been babysitting her for the past week, but is already forcing Scout to be the girl Alexandra wants. â€Å"Stop scratching your head† (Lee 168). â€Å"Yessum, and she promised me I could come to her house some afternoon†¦ You may not†¦ I said, â€Å"I didn’t ask you!† (Lee 181). She is trying to change Scout to the typical South girl ways, but Scout, not being used to what Alexandra does, defies her rule and decided to talk back, in front of her father. Experiencing the pain of no mom already pains Scout, and having another woman try to make her a different person as if they are her own mother pains Scout. Finally, Dill Harris experiences pain through the absence of recognition by his family. Dill, being ignored by others forced him to run away because he has no one to look up to, no one to rely on. â€Å"Nothin ‘, just sittin’ and readin’- but they didn’t want me with ‘ em† (Lee, 190). From Dill’s perspective, his own mother does not even want him in the house anymore. Dill had to feel the pain of