To Kill a Mockingbird You reed about all of the way scout grows and laughs about things, but she begins to see the deeper meaning. Sometimes she has to ask about what things mean but really she just wanted not to be singled out as a kid. Throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Scout is changing in multiple ways. Her attitude towards “Boo” changes drastically. In the beginning of the book she is frightened of him. Many times Scout found herself scared to walk past the house: “I ran by the radley place as fast as I could, not stopping until I reached the safety of our front porch”(33). Scout refused to walk past there alone. She was anxious about it. All the words Miss Stephanie would tell the town Scout would believe. “Boo” …show more content…
Knowing the town is so afraid of him they are insensitive and do not even call him by this first name! Miss Maudie has attempted to show Scout he is just a normal person. “His name is Arthur.” (43). Now Scout is seeing that “Boo” [Author] is a real person and should be treated with respect. Scout would take the little things that were left inside the Radley place tree. There were many things that had been found inside the tree. There was a little piece of gum, a watch, also two soap dolls that had been hand crafted and looked just like Jem and Scout. One major way Scout was insensitive to Authers was for a huge part of one summer the children acted out being the Radley’s. Scout knew at first how insensitive it was. She told Jem it was wrong to do so, but Scout played along in fear of being bored all summer. “Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad”(278). Jean Louise (Scout) showed everyone reading this book that he is nothing to be scared of . Boo was only too scared to be in front of people.