Which three quotes in To Kill a Mockingbird depict friendship?

In chapter 5, Jem and Dill become closer friends because they are on a mission to get Boo Radley to come out of his house. Scout, on the other hand, has been reluctant to do anything related to Boo Radley since Atticus caught them playing a game about his life. As a result, Scout is left out of some of the boys' planning and scheming. Scout explains Jem's and Dill's friendship as follows:

Dill was becoming something of a trial anyway, following Jem about. He had asked me earlier in the summer to marry him, then he promptly forgot about it... said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me. I beat him up twice but it did not good, he only grew closer to Jem. They spent days together in the treehouse plotting and planning, calling me only when they needed a third party (41-42).

This passage shows the decline of one friendship and the emergence of a new one. Other than Cecil Jacobs, Scout has no other friends to play with, so Scout visits Miss Maudie when the boys are playing together. Miss Maudie is an adult friend who treats the children with respect and kindness. When she bakes cakes, she will bake three little ones just for Scout, Jem, and Dill. Scout describes her appreciation for Miss Maudie's friendship as follows:

Jem and I had considerable faith in Miss Maudie. She had never told on us, had never played cat-and-mouse with us, she was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend (44-45).

Another time when friendship is finally realized is in chapter 8, during the night of Miss Maudie's house fire. While Jem and Scout watch the fire from across the street at the Radleys' house, Boo Radley comes out and slips a blanket around Scout's shoulders without her knowing. This act of kindness comes after Jem and Scout find gifts from Boo in the knothole of the oak tree on the Radleys' lot. When the children get home after the fire and discover the blanket, Jem tells his father and sister, respectively:

Atticus, I swear to God he ain't ever harmed us, he ain't ever hurt us, he coulda cut my throat from ear to ear that night but he tried to mend my pants instead... he ain't ever hurt us, Atticus.

...Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn't know it when he put the blanket around you (72).

This is a fun passage because Jem feels he has enough evidence to declare Boo Radley is not an enemy, but a friend. Boo Radley has never done anything but kind things for the children, such as mending Jem's pants, giving them anonymous gifts, and watching over them during the night of the fire. Boo is very quiet and shy, but that doesn't mean he isn't one of the children's friends. In fact, he later proves to be one of the best friends they have because he saves their lives. 

In To Kill a Mockingbird, which characters display friendship love?

One character that exhibits a lot of friendly love is Boo Radley.  He tries to make friends with Scout and Jem as early as the first chapters of the book, and that love that he has for the children really comes through at the end after they are attacked.  He starts his friendship by leaving trinkets and bobbles in the tree trunk for Jem and Scout to find as they walk home from school each day.  One of these gifts is

"two small images careved in saop.  One was the figure of a boy, the other wore a crude dress...they were almost perfect miniatues of two children."

Here, we see that Boo feels such a fondness for the children that he even has their images memorized in his head well enough to carve their figures into soap.  He tries to extend a hand of friendship through all of these gifts.  At the end, after he saves their lives, he is so worried about Jem that Scout takes him back to Jem's room where Boo gently reaches out and touches him to see if he's okay.  This scene is a touching one where we see Boo's true friendly affection for the kids; he exhibits friendship love.

Other characters also show friendship love.  Consider Dill and Jem; they are good friends; Scout and Dill also are friends, and show friendship love in their interactions.  Cal and Atticus also are very good and trusted friends that have a loving, but purely friendly, relationship.  All of these characters love each other as friends, and it is those ties that make the book so endearing.  I hope that helps; good luck!

What is a lesson in friendship in To Kill a Mockingbird?

There are several lessons on friendship on To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee created characters that are so compelling and complex. There are so many life lessons we can learn from even today.

The most fascinating and endearing friendship in the novel, is the friendship between Scout, Jem and Boo. Although the friendship is not the traditional one we think about today, it is the friendship that will make sacrifices for each other. Jem, Scout and Dill spend most of their time trying to find a way to get Boo to come out of his house. This consumes them much of the time. When Jem and Scout see the presents in the knothole of the tree, they are at first confused about who they are for. Boo is trying to show the two of them how much he cares about them. The night of the fire, when Jem and Scout are standing on the sidewalk, Scout is shivering because she is so cold. When Atticus comes to get the children, he accuses them of leaving the spot he had told them to stay in. They both say they didn't go anywhere, and he asks them how Scout got the blanket around her shoulders. Boo had put the blanket around her to keep her warm. When Jem gets his pants stuck and torn in the fence behind the Radley house, he returns to get them and finds them folded and mended. Boo is watching out for the kids. He feels extremely protective of them. At the climax of the story, Boo risks his own life to save Jem and Scout. 

The friendship between Jem, Scout and Boo is one of the most beautiful friendships in literature. Boo is willing to lay down his life for the two of them. This is what a friendship is all about. Harper Lee teaches us not to judge someone who may be a little different, they just might end up being the best friend you can ever have.

What passages in To Kill A Mockingbird highlight friendship?

The theme of friendship in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird can especially be characterized through the children's relationship with Dill.

Dill is a very unusual person, yet there are several places throughout the novel where both Jem and Scout express their acceptance of him, which also expresses their friendship with him. For example, in Chapter 16, the morning after the mob scene, Dill comes rushing into the Finches' dining room, bursting with news of the gossip spreading all over town about how they handled the mob, saying, "It's all over town this morning ... all about how we held off a hundred folks with our bare hands." When Aunt Alexandra icily corrects him, Jem defends Dill's creative method of expressing himself, saying in Dill's defense, "Aw, Aunty, that's just Dill's way" (Ch. 16). Jem's defense of Dill shows us how much Jem appreciates Dill and values his friendship.

Earlier, at the start of summer after her second grade year, Scout expresses sorrow to learn by letter that Dill's mother wants him to stay in Meridian that summer to spend time with his new stepfather. Scout is gloomy for two days after reading the news and reflects the following:

I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley emerge; summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longings we sometimes felt for each other. With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable. (Ch. 12)

While this passage speaks of affections Scout feels for Dill that go beyond friendship, what is also true is that these feelings developed because of their friendship. Therefore, Scout missing Dill clearly portrays how much she values her friendship with him.

How are friendship and trust demonstrated in To Kill a Mockingbird?

A great illustration of the themes of trust and friendship can be seen in the episode where Dill runs away from home. Dill's gone AWOL because he's tired of no longer being the center of his mother's universe now that she's remarried. So he runs off to Maycomb, where he seeks sanctuary at the Finch residence. Or, to be more precise, he seeks sanctuary underneath Scout's bed. Scout's pretty shocked to find him there, as one can imagine, but she's glad to see him all the same. Dill's a very good friend of hers, and she'll do whatever she can to help out.

Much to Scout's disgust, however, Jem goes and tells Atticus what's happened. This is a sign of Jem's growing maturity; he knows that Dill needs to go back home as soon as possible and that telling Atticus is the responsible, adult thing to do, but Scout doesn't see it like that. She thinks that Jem has broken the bond of trust that existed between himself and Dill and betrayed their friendship.

In To Kill a Mockingbird, friendship and trust are addressed in several ways, but the tenuous trust and friendship between Arthur “Boo” Radley and the children is the most interesting example.

An unlikely form of friendship in the novel is between the children and Boo Radley. At the beginning of the novel, the children cruelly dehumanize him by making assumptions about him, partly influenced by the intolerance in Maycomb. When Boo begins leaving the children small tokens, he wins them over and dispels their fear.

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.

The children realize that friendship is give and take and they had done nothing but take from Boo. Boo has been injured by a cruel father, and yet he still has a capacity for trust and friendship with the Finch children, despite their initial feelings toward him.

Atticus addresses the issue of trust in the novel when he says,

We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

He is pointing out that society functions on the premise that we trust our neighbors, friends and family to do the right thing. Boo Radley trusted his father to care for him and was repaid with evil harm. Yet Boo functions as a trustworthy adult when coming to the children’s aid and saving their lives.

What passages in To Kill a Mockingbird show life lessons about friendship and family?

In Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the children's relationship with Arthur (Boo) Radley best represents lessons about friendship.

Arthur Radley is significantly stigmatized by Maycomb's society due to the fact he is a recluse who never leaves his home. As a result, Maycomb's citizens have circulated many rumors about why he never leaves his house, such as Miss Stephanie Crawford's rumor that he has been kept under house arrest by his father and now his brother for being mentally unstable. Due to the rumors and stigmatization, Maycomb's children have given Arthur Radley the name Boo Radley and frequently mock him.

Jem, Scout, and Dill particularly become guilty of mocking Arthur when Dill comes up with the idea to try and make Arthur come out of his house. One thing they do to mock him is re-enact Miss Stephanie's rumors in their yard, which is in Arthur's line of sight from his house.

However, despite mocking him, the children begin understanding that Arthur is doing kind things for them and reaching out to them in his own special way. For example, after a failed nighttime attempt to try and get a glimpse of Arthur in his window, Jem returns to the Radley property at 2 am to retrieve his lost trousers and finds them lying on the fence, neatly folded, and mended. The children also begin finding items in a knothole in one of the oak trees on the Radley lot and soon come to realize they are gifts from Arthur. The most noteworthy gifts are two bars of soap craftily carved to look just like the children. As soon as Jem becomes convinced the objects they are finding are gifts to them from Arthur, he sets out to leave Arthur a thank you note but is devastated to find that Arthur's care-taking brother, Nathan Radley, had filled in the knothole with cement. Jem is so devastated he cries because he feels guilty for having mocked Arthur and devastated by the fact they have no way to show Arthur kindness in return. We know Jem cries based on Scout's following narration the day Jem realized Nathan had filled in the knothole:

He stood there until nightfall, and I waited for him. When we went in the house I saw he had been crying; his face was dirty in the right places, but I thought it odd that I had not heard him. (Ch. 7)

Another memorable act of kindness Arthur shows the children is when he sneaks out of his house at night to cover Scout up with a blanket while Jem and Scout wait in front of the Radley property for the town to put out Miss Maudie's house fire. Finally, when Scout's and Jem's lives are threatened by Bob Ewell, Arthur is the one who comes to their rescue, risking public exposure by stabbing and killing Ewell in defense.

As Scout comes to realize by the end of the novel, Arthur acted kindly towards the children because he cared about them; he saw them as his friends, or, more specifically, as Scout phrases it, he saw them as "his children" (Ch. 31). Hence, Arthur Radley's actions in the face of the children's mockery gives us a lesson about the unconditional love felt by true friends.