what role does gossip play in to kill a mockingbrid that connests to doudt?

The clip from the movie Doubt relates to To Kill a Mockingbird in many ways. The priest tells a sermon about a woman who gossips and feels very bad about it so decides to go to confession and tell the priest her sins. The reason she begins to feel very bad about gossiping is because in her dream the hand of God was pointing down at her and she felt an over-whelming sense of guilt. In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout and the rest of the residents in Maycomb would be the person/people who are gossiping and the person who she has been talked about would be Boo Radley. Gossiping plays a huge role in To Kill a Mockingbird by affecting the life of Boo Radley. Scout and everyone that talks about Boo Radley have made up stories saying or exaggerating stories heard about Boo Radley, making him seem like an insane person who eats squirrels and hurts people. Scout also made up a rumor that Boo Radley stabbed his father making everyone scared of Boo Radley and what he is capable of. People have also told stories that Boo Radley has died but during the novel you find out that he is not. After all the gossip that has been spread about him, no one really knows what is true about him anymore. He is really just trying to make a connection with the kids and trying to make a place for himself in the outside world. How everything said about someone spreads is explained in the Doubt clip by the priest using an analogy about a pillow and the feathers within the pillow. The priest tells the woman who is gossiping to go upon her roof and cut open a pillow and let all the feathers fly away and spread out to where she lives. After she tells the priest that she has done that the priest tells her to pick up every last feather. She tells him that it is not possible to retrieve every single feather and he tells her that that is gossip. He believes that gossip being the feather spreads all over and will never be able to be taken back. This is like how everything has spread about Boo Radley and it will never be able to be taken back. Every feather represents every rumor that has been spread about Boo Radley. You do not know where all the rumors about Boo Radley have spread just like all of the feathers. These words will never be able to be taken back because people told other people who then spread the stories to people they knew and now you do not know everyone that has heard a rumor about Boo Radley so you will never be able to take back everything that has been said. The people of Maycomb should do as the woman who had confessed to gossiping. They should stand on their roofs and cut up pillows and watch all of the feathers fly away. After doing this they would understand how the gossiping of Boo Radley can spread to everyone around them. Maybe if they realized how much all of the gossip affected his life they would not talk about him or spread any more stories about him anymore.