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Post by jennasalvat on Jul 21, 2016 18:32:19 GMT
As Boo Radley was living with his parents for fifteen years, we hear of an instance in which Boo is cutting out pieces of the The Maycomb Tribune using a pair of scissors. This is sort of symbolic of Boo cutting himself out of society and keeping what happened in the past stored away in his mind. This marks the point at which Boo would rather isolate himself from society rather than participate in the chaos of it. As he is clipping out pieces of the newspaper, he then stabs his father in the leg with the scissors. I think that this is symbolic of the fact that his father is responsible for his isolation from the world. He has been separated from the Maycomb community because of his father, and can no longer experience the things that he reads in the paper for himself, but can only read about them.
What do you think about this symbolism? Could it mean something different?
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Post by Ravyn_Bergeman on Jul 21, 2016 22:47:37 GMT
This is actually really good symbolism, and I haven't thought about it this way. When I first read this part I always thought it was more literal, I believed that Arthur was cutting out a article about something awful to remind himself how messed up society could be, and he stabbed is father because he was annoyed with something he did.
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Post by justinott on Jul 22, 2016 13:08:30 GMT
I agree with Begred, I never really thought about this part as something like cutting himself out of a larger group, however looking at it now makes me think that indeed, he is cutting out the worst pieces of life in the society and his father is just another reminder of the outside that he doesnt want to see.
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Post by avery young on Aug 11, 2016 4:28:46 GMT
This is a very well thought out analysis but Boo's action could have a double meaning. While cutting himself out of society he is also taking himself back, both from jail and his father, who is hinted to be emotionally if not physically abusive in some sense. In doing this he is taking his experiences back and removing himself not only from the eyes of society as a whole but also his possibly abusive and seemingly deranged family. This gives him at least soem form of mental control over his terrible situation.
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Post by Alyssa Eilerts on Aug 14, 2016 6:12:22 GMT
Actually this symbolism would make sense, you people are finding things i would have thought twice about. But yes this symbolism is correct of course there would be many many more meanings but i think that yours would probably be the closest. As Raven said i was taking all of this literally rather than metaphorically and i did think this artical had upset him being about something that could have been triggering. But, this does make sense.
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Post by lenadunz on Aug 22, 2016 2:26:02 GMT
That is a very good point to bring up. Boo Radley was isolating himself, and not at all trying to interact with society because his father was keeping him there. The idea that he was cutting himself out of society with scissors and then proceeded to stab his father with them is possibly symbolic of trying to 'cut the ties' that were dragging him further down a rabbit-hole of restricted isolation.
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