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Boo Radley Relationship

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Atticus Finch once said “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.” (Lee 36) The relationship between Boo and Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird is the most important relationship because of how much it changed. Scouts feelings for Boo drastically throughout the story. Originally, Scout was very curious about Boo. Scout, Jem, and Dill only saw him as a horrifying myth but as the story continues, Scout begins to feel afraid of him because of all the rumors she has heard about him. Scout began to look at Boo as a monster. At the end of the story, Scout began to finally see Boo Radley for who he really is and she was not afraid of him anymore because he decided to save her from Mr. Ewell. At the beginning …show more content…

“According to Aunt Stephanie, Boo was sitting in the living room, cutting some items from the Maycomb Tribute to paste in his scrapbook, his father entered the room. As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parents leg, pulled them out, and wiped them on his pants and resumed his activity.” (Lee 13) Scout began to look at Boo as a monster. People in their town would always make Boo Radley sound like he was such a bad person when they would mention him in their conversations. “People said he went out at night when the moon was down and peeped in windows. When peoples azaleas froze in the cold, it was because he breathed on them. (Lee 10) Even though Scout was afraid of Boo, She was still very curious about him. Once Scout finally realizes who Boo Radley is, her feelings began to change once again. Scout began to look at Boo Radley as a person instead of a monster. At the end of the story, Scouts feeling change toward Boo whenever decided to save Scout from Mr. Ewell. “Mr.Ewell was trying to squeeze me to death… Then somebody yanked Mr.Ewell down.” (Lee 361) Whenever Boo finally came out from hiding, Scout realized that Boo was not going to hurt her. All Boo wanted to do was help and protect Scout. These changes in their relationship affect the story because it shows the characters in the story and the audience that Boo Radley is not as terrible as people would make him

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Scout also understands Boo more when she arrives at his house. Standing on his porch after leading him home, Scout realizes the simple trick effect and thinks, “ One time he [Atticus] said that you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough” (374). Scout literally stands in Boo’s position and understands how things my look from his stance in this world. Standing there, Scout understands that Boo was unaccustomed to the world around him and afraid of what it had to offer him, which is why he stayed inside.

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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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Scout and Jem explain to Dill about all the devious acts Boo does in the small town of Maycomb county. Scout says… ¨Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom¨(Lee 10). This quotation shows us how Scout depicted Boo Radley. She didn't really see him as a

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Later on, Jem and Scout no longer have interest in seeing Boo. “...I was well into the second grade at school and tormenting Boo became passé…”(132). Later on in his life, Jem was no longer interested with getting to see Boo, as it says in the quote it became passé. He also soon would be preoccupied with the trial of Tom Robinson to even worry about getting to see Boo Radley. Scout, always looking to her brother as an example, stoped interest in Boo as well.

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Overtime, Scout realizes that they are just disrupting Boo, and decides to stop trying to lure him outside. She almost completely forgets about Boo, until he saves both her and Jem from Mr. Ewell who was attacking them. When Scout first saw Boo, she teared up, since she only fantasized about that very moment. Curiosity struck Scout and her

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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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Just standing on the Radley porch was enough. ”(279). Scout uses her imagination to try and view all the past events that have occurred through Boo’s eyes. When she does this she realizes that Boo isn’t a bad person at all, he is actually kind of like a guardian angel. Boo Radley’s character proves a great point that we should never judge or assume things about another person that we know nothing

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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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When scout finally gets to see Boo in the end after the whole Bob incident she has a higher respect for him. Boo changes the kids lives in unspeakable ways. By the end you don't see the kids trying to play around with Boo. Scout waited for Boo to come to her, like she had wanted in the beginning. The end of the book with Boo ties most of it together.

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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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Boo Radley is compassionate for the children as they communicate through presents and the mysterious hints. As Scout grows older her perspective on Boo changes, from a creepy guy to a friend. Boo Radley is the mockingbird to Scout's understanding, just like Tom Robinson was a mockingbird to Jem. From Atticus's teachings she has learned to develop into a young lady. Atticus's lessons and Boo Radley impacted her view on the world.

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The novel To Kill A Mockingbird is compiled of thirty captivating chapters. There are many events that occur throughout these thirty chapters, and many relationships between the characters change. One such relationship is the one between Arthur, or Boo, Radley and Jem and Scout Finch. Although Boo only came out of his house once in the novel, his relationship with the Finch children was seemingly the most dynamic one in this novel. Ten-year-old Jem and six-year-old Scout naturally believed almost everything they heard, which is why they believed the horror stories about Boo and the rest of the Radley family that they heard from Miss Stephanie Crawford, the town gossip.

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In the story Boo Radley plays the role of Scout and Jem’s guardian angel. He watches over them and helps them when they get into trouble. In the first chapters, the kids make fun of Boo, they taunt him. All they know about him is what they have heard, that he is a crazy man. Throughout the story though, Boo proves them wrong.

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Decide how the relationship between Scout and Boo Radley evolves providing sufficient evidence In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Scout develops a strange relationship with a mysterious character, Boo Radley. Scout, Jem, and Dill are interested in Boo Radley because of the mystery that dominates around him and the Radley house. The town people poorly judge Boo Radley and hearing stories from Miss Stephanie Crawford frightens Scout and Jem. Although the relationship starts out as fear and mystery, as time passes, Scout begins to realize that Boo isn’t the monster they described him as, he is rather a nice and caring person.

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