Boo Radley In Harper Lee's 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

Eren Kosiba Mr. Collyer H English December 13th, 2023 The Importance of a Helping Hand Boo Radley is the most complex and important character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. His complexity gives others more personality. These qualities can show importance to others. Boo Radley is the most important because he impacts and shapes Scout, Jem, and Dill’s childhood, protects Scout, and represents themes like compassion, empathy, and the impact of society. How Boo Radley impacted the childhoods’ of Scout, Jem, and Dill defines him as the most important character in Harper Lee’s novel. At the beginning of the novel, the three children are playing the “Boo Radley Game” when Scout thinks, “I was fairly sure Boo Radley was inside that house, but I couldn’t prove it”( 43).

This means that he is starting to form the outcome for the rest of the summer. Not physically making the children want to get Boo Radley outside with force, but enticing them and giving them the everlasting goal of getting Boo Radley out in some way. She later says that the game progressed along with their summer, and developing the game made the entire summer fly by. This represents the idea that Boo Radley was the main focus of their childhood years. Their games were focused on Boo Radley, their summer goal was based on Boo Radley, and their early years were focused on Boo Radley and the mystery of his true self. Boo Radley is the most important character in To Kill a Mockingbird because he protects the three kids. For example, in the final chapters, we find the body of Bob Ewell next to the Radley house tree after he chases after Scout because of issues with Atticus Finch, her father. Mr. Tate found his neck and rubbed it. ‘Bob Ewell lyin’ on the ground under that tree down yonder with a kitchen knife stuck up under his