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What dose Scout learn about Boo Radley from standing in Boos shoes and walking around in them. In this novel To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee. We learn about how a man comes out of the shadows after a man named Tom Robinson is tried on the account of rape. Which when you read into it you will see that he did not really commit rape. It was Bob Ewell who had beat his daughter Mayella Ewell. In this story theres a man named Boo who hide’s in his house and Scout wants to meet him so bad. Ever since then he has hide in his house. There are rumor’s that go around the town of Maycomb. One of them is he was about 3 or 4, “Boo was sitting in the living room cutting some items from The Maycomb Tribune to paste to his scrap book. His father entered the room. As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parents leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities.”(Lee, 13). This is important because its the most talked about story or rumor in Maycomb about Boo Radley. …show more content…

Then a fight broke out and when it all settled scout heard wheezing and then when you got to where she could see. She saw jem being carried by a man. A man who sounded like he was having a hard time breathing. “The man was walking unsteadily towards the road.” (Lee, 353). Then she looked for Jem smelled whiskey on a mans breath, she knew it was not jem. “By the time I reached the corner the man was crossing our front yard. Light from our front door framed Atticus for an instant.” (Lee, 353). This is important because if Boo Radley had not been there and stopped Bob Ewell the kids would have been dead or

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