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The description of the Radley house comes off as scary and creepy to the kids at first. Until they realize that Boo Radley is a really nice person. And that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Just because the house looked scary on the outside doesn’t mean that the people that live on the inside are mean and evil, or whatever come to think that they are. This contributed to the saying earlier in the book where it said: “You never know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.” - (Atticus Finch). The kids and no one in town knew why Boo Radley, only came out at night they were or anything they were just so quick to judge. They didn’t know why their house was scary or even why they like for it to look the way that it looks.
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