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Boo Radley Changes In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Harper Lee wrote in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird, “if you learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view,” (Lee 39). In the book Scout changes from being a tomboy to a lady-like girl by changing her perspective. The novel explores the life of a poor girl who lives in Maycomb county Alabama. Throughout the novel a man feared by all the town is discovered to be a very kind man by Scout Finch who is kind, curious, and mature young lady. The novel begins with Scout’s first day at school. In an effort to defend a fellow student she tells the new teacher that the Cunningham family does not borrow money because they can …show more content…

A friend of Scout’s named Dill Harris, appears in chapter one and curiosity of a neighbor, Arthur “Boo” Radley is sparked in the children. Boo is a character that trys to kill his father when he was younger with a pair of scissors. Since that day Boo was either in the basement of the jail or inside his home hidden away from everyone. Jem, Scout’s brother, and Scout start finding items inside a hole in a tree next to the Radley’s house. Later Mr. Nathan Radley, Boo’s brother and caretaker, covers the hole with cement saying, “Tree’s dying. You plug ‘em with cement when they’re sick,” (83). This act symbolizes severing of their communication with Boo. Scout’s curiosity is deferred until but later resurfaces when she says, “You aren’t starting that again, are you?’ said Atticus one night when I expresses a stray desire just to have one good look at Boo Radley,” (325). Shortly thereafter, Scout and Jem are walking home from a county pageant and they are a nasty man named Bob Ewell who was after their father attacks the children but a mysterious man saves them. Scout later understands that Jem and herself were saved by the mysterious Boo Radley. This incident quelles her curiosity of Boo Radley and changes her perspective of him from being a scary guy to a nice, heroic

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Everybody in Maycomb thought that Boo and his family were strange and scary. Nobody knew who they were because nobody talked to them or nobody invited them into their house. When Boo Radley saves Jem her life, Scout soon realises that Boo Radley is just a folk like her and there was no need to be afraid of him. Like Atticus tells

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She has started to lose her innocence, which leads her to be able to understand more of what people mean even when they say something else. Scout realizes that her and Jem’s savior was indeed Boo Radley: “‘Hey Boo,’ I said” (Lee 362). Boo Radley’s innocence leads him to be courageous by saving Jem and Scout. Boo has watched Jem and Scout through their times of crisis and as they have grown up. “His mouth was slightly open, and he looked at Jem from head to foot.

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It isn’t ours,” (71) making readers question whether Boo is as scary as people think. At the end of the novel after Jem and Scout are attacked by Bob Ewell Jem was accused of stabbing Bob, later finding out from Heck Tate, “Mr. Ewell fell on his knife,” (276) Lee creates the question now, who brought Jem home. Scout would come to find out it was none other than Boo Radley. Later that night Scout would walk Boo home realizing who he was, “Most people are, Scout when you finally see them,” (281) declaring that it is expected that he was

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In addition to this, Scout began to slowly realize that there were now four people under the tree (Lee 351). After the fight ends, Bob Ewell is dead and the heroic man is carrying Jem back to the Finch’s house. When Scout comes face to face with the heroic man she never notices that he is Boo Radley because she’s never seen him until this event. Additionally, Atticus wants to tell the whole county of this incident but, Scout opposes this idea. She understands Boo and why he chooses to stay inside and fears the people.

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There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten, his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.” Little do they know that Boo Radley will play a huge part in their survival at the end of the book when the crazy Bob Ewell Attacks them and Boo Radley protected them, something that Jem and scout would’ve never imagined, But something that the reader could foreshadow. Due to Boo’s acts of kindness like when he returned Jem’s pants sowed after he got them caught on the barb wire fence while he was snooping and around and also the gifts he left in the knot of the tree that helped him build a deeper sentimental relationship with Jem and Scout even if the kids did not know it. Boo had built such a relationship with them that he had done something extremely courageous and protects Jem and scout from Bob

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Throughout the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” written by Harper Lee, the readers can see how Scout changes her view about Boo Radley. Because of their nosiness, Jem, Scout, and Dill try to drag Boo out his house and to the outside world. Their innocent actions combined with Boo’s actions changed the image of Boo, in their minds, from “a malevolent phantom” (10), a person who kills cats and eats squirrels to a neighbor they can trust, who saves them from Bob Ewell. Scout says at the end, “Boo was our neighbor” (373). The readers can see a great change in their relationship.

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