mockingbird
... engaged to a white woman who shot herself when she found out that he slept with a black woman. Dolphus had children with black women. However, he did not want the entire town to judge his actions. The bottle he drank from actually contained coke. He acted as a drunk in order to avoid judgment from society. Mr. Cunningham is an example of a character whose appearance and true personality were in contrast to each other. He is a member of the gang that goes to the jail house at night in order to kill Tom Robinson. However, he is not a truly evil person and is moved and ashamed by Scout’s speech. Mr. Cunningham, whose family was extremely poor, was just taken over by the gang mentality. Boo Radley is the classic example of how prejudice leads to a difference in a character’s appearance and reality. Early in the novel, the children conceive Boo as monster. They would play the Boo Radley game where they would pretend to stab each other with scissors. The reality of the situation was that Boo was not a monster at all. As a teen, Boo, whose real name was Arthur, got into trouble with a couple of his friends. Instead of sending him off to a reform school with his friends, his father begged the judge to let him stay at home on the condition that Arthur would never commit another crime. His father kept him at home and never let him out again. When the father died, Boo’s brother Nathan took over the job of keeping him at home. The rumors about Boo Radley led the kids into believing that he was a monster. Ho...