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The Pulitzer Prize winning novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee portrays the life of a young girl, Scout, and her family who live together in Maycomb, Alabama circa 1930s. Scout lives next to some fascinating people that have legends and myths made about them because of their back story. One of them being Boo Radley. Boo was locked away in his house by his parents for most of his life after committing crimes that put him away for good. After the news got out about his vanishing into the Radley house forever many stories were made up about him. Scout and her brother, Jem have both been told untrue and rude stories, myths and claims about Boo Radley but these ideas of him start to change by the end of the book. We can see their …show more content…

On page 8 our narrator, Scout, tells us “Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.” Then on page 319 she says “He was holding my hand with no sign of letting go. ‘will you walk me home?’” The first quote shows us Scout at the beginning of the book telling us how everyone considered him to be a criminal just because they hadn't ever seen him before. These assumptions made everyone feel as though he was unsafe to be around, when they hadn't ever met him. The second quote shows after the plot had taken place and the book had almost come to an end and we can see how Scout and him have now met each other. Through this encounter we can tell that Boo Radley is a very kind person who had just been isolated for years of his life making people think he was bad. He even asks Scout if she could walk him home and become her …show more content…

On page 9 our narrator, Scout, tells us “When peoples Azalea’s froze in a cold snap it was because he breathed on them.” We can see how people mischaracterized him just because they didn’t know him and haven’t ever met him before. By the end of the book Scout and Jem end up getting jumped and Boo Radley comes to the rescue. After they are beaten brutally by their attacker, Boo Radley comes out of the house for the first time in centuries to carry Jem back to his house so he can heal. This shows how he goes from being someone no one likes to being Jems

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Just like people target the mockingbird, people would tend to target Boo Radley. Boo Radley was innocent of all the crimes people claim he committed, but he just desires to stay inside and keep to himself. While reading the novel, I believe he yearns to stay inside because he does not wish to face the false rumors that have been spread about him. One of the last ways Boo is symbolized by the mockingbird is Boo protects Scout and Jem from harm. The mockingbird also protects people, not in the obvious ways, but the mockingbird sings music to comfort people and cause them to feel safe.

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It also states in the book “Jem seemed to have a little fear of Boo Radley now that Walter and I walked beside him.” Another main point I believe the kids will not meet Boo, is I have that Boo is locked up evidence from the book. To begin with Lee page, 10 “ People said he excited, but Jem and I had never seen him” From this sentence you can tell that Boo Radley has been around before and he has been around before Scout and Jem were even

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They have to face the horror of racism and judgment, but in the end they grow up and learn valuable life lessons. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, Boo Radley is an innocent man who cares for children and has been judged his whole life.     Boo Radley has been criticized for most of his

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" Even though Jem has never seen Boo Radley, he's convinced that Boo is this monster-like- person. Not to mention, what happened with Miss Stephanie Crawford, Jem retells the story that Miss Stephanie told him and Scout and says," she woke up in the middle of the night one time and saw him looking straight through the window at her.." Based on what people have said about Boo; Jem, Scout and Dill all believed it. They don’t realize that he's actually a good person because they're so convinced that he's a

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In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout’s perspective of Boo Radley changes as others influence her. Initially, Scout thinks as Boo as a malevolent phantom, and is scared of him because of the stories she hears. Midway through the novel, Boo starts to reveal himself to Scout, and she starts on her journey to realizing who he really is. Finally, after Boo saves Scout and Jem from Bob Ewell, Scout walks Boo back home. Now on the porch of the Radley place, Scout looks at her street from Boo’s perspective, and she realizes that Boo is just like anyone else, but he just rather live a reclusive life. Ultimately, Scout learns that she can not judge anyone until she is able to see life from their perspective.

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In To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, the novel follows the life of the main character, Scout, from ages six to eight. In the book, Scout and her brother, Jem, initially have strange beliefs regarding the mysterious Arthur "Boo" Radley. But, due to various events; that takes place in Jem and Scout's lives, the siblings' beliefs have changed. Scout and Jem's moderately firm ideas of Boo Radley in earlier chapters have come; to deeply contrast their current viewpoints of him.

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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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When they were younger, Scout and Jem believed Boo Radley was a scary man who had bloodstained hands, rotten yellow hands, and had drool running from his mouth. When in reality, he was actually the contrary. “When they finally saw him he hadn’t done any of those things… Atticus, he was real nice” Lee, page 281. When Scout finally saw Boo Radley she realized he was not how she had pictured years ago and that he was actually a very charitable human.

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Moreover, Scout learns that is very important that she shouldn’t judge people too quickly, when she meets Boo Radley. Before she met him, Scout believed all the rumors that people said about them. “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall...hands were bloodstained…long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten…” (Lee 14) these rumors led to her thinking Boo was a monster. However, at the end of the book when Scout meets Boo, he is nothing like the character she was led to believe.

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Boo Radley is a very quiet man who got into trouble with the law at a young age and has stayed inside his house since. Around town, he is seen as a bad man who is very weird for staying inside his house, and rumors about him are everywhere. Scout and Jem hear about this and are very interested about this, so they go and mess around at his house. Even with all these people thinking he is a weird, crazy person, Boo Radley is still a great person. When there was a fire, the kids were outside when it was cold, and Boo Radley was nice enough to wrap a blanket around Scout.

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Radley is understood to be mistreated by his father in his childhood and was locked away in his home for a minor infraction, making him the gossip of the town in Maycomb. Early in the book, Jem depicts Boo as a terrifying monster who had “blood-stained hands (pg.14)” and a “long jagged scar (pg.14)” from “din[ing] on raw squirrels and cats (pg.14)”. The author creates this gruesome imagery through the frightening connotations of Boo’s description to highlight the children’s’ negative perception of him. However, Boo is a hapless and innocent individual. The audience is first positioned to view Boo as such when he showed an unanticipated act of heroism, saving Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell’s attempted murder.

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Boo Radley represents one of the “mockingbirds” in the book, and a mockingbird is someone that is pure and innocence in the world. He is a good person that is hurt by the evil of mankind. In a lot of ways, Boo Radley might have have wanted to stay shut up in his house after seeing some of the awful acts that the townspeople have committed. But after seeing the Finch kids being attacked by Bob Ewell he had no choice but to leave the comfort of his own home that he has been enclosed in for so long to come out and save them. All though it would have been easier for this man to stay in his house rather than leave and then be drug into court, he did what he knew would be right and rescued the

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