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Boo Radley Argumentative Essay

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To Kill a Mockingbird is about a little girl named Jean Louise Finch, called Scout, and her brother, Jeremy Finch, called Jem. A few houses down from theirs is the Radley’s house. Throughout the story, they try to make Arthur Radley, sometimes referred to as Boo Radley, come out of the house, because he never does. Some people are puzzled as to why Boo Radley doesn’t like to come out of his house, and I have a theory. This world is a cruel place, but many people don’t realize that. I think that Boo Radley was one of the few people that realized this about the world, and didn’t want anything to do with it. He stayed inside to stay away from the world, because he didn’t like the monsters people had become. When Boo Radley was a teenager, he …show more content…

Unfortunately, there are more people like this in the world than you think, and I think these kind of people are what made Boo stay inside. I understand why, if this was the reason. I wouldn’t want anything to do with people like that, would want to be far from them, and if staying in my house was as far as I could get, I’d stay inside. The Ewells do cruel things throughout the story, and it was stated in the story that the Ewells have lived in Maycomb for three generations. That means they’ve been cruel for three generations. Boo knew the Ewells(probably) when he was a kid, and knew what they were like. He stayed inside to stay away from them and their cruelty, along with staying away from all of the cruel people of the world. He felt safe inside, felt far away from the malice. To be honest, I do to when I’m in the comfort of my own home. I also think Boo fears the cruelty as well; in the end of the story, Boo does end up coming out, and I’ll explain more about that later, and Boo asks Scout to walk him home. That would be odd, if he didn’t fear something, correct? And what else is there to fear? He’s like 25(maybe)! Alright, this paragraph is long, so I’m going to start a new

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