Theme Thursdays: Male Person

This week’s Theme Thursdays topic is male characters. The prompt asks readers to submit a description of a man or boy from literature. When I read this prompt, I immediately thought of Dill from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Every time I read To Kill a Mockingbird, I become more attached to Dill. Curious and inventive, Dill hatches many imaginative plans to make Boo Radley come out. His innocence is endearing. During the Tom Robinson trial, Dill becomes upset when he sees how unfairly Tom is treated simply because of his skin color. The chapter where Dill reveals the truth about his home life always breaks my heart. Dill’s parents buy him things like books and toys so that he will not bother them. More than anything, Dill wants to be wanted. Every time I read this chapter, I wish I could adopt sweet, imaginative Charles Baker Harris. 🙂 I love the following description of Dill:

“Dill was a curiosity. He wore blue linen shorts that buttoned to his shirt, his hair was snow white and stuck to his head like duckfluff; he was a year my senior but I towered over him. As he told us the old tale his blue eyes would lighten and darken; his laugh was sudden and happy; he habitually pulled at a cowlick in the center of his forehead” (Lee 7-8).

Happy Thursday!