To Kill A Mockingbird Boo Radley Theme

Boo Radley a character who never comes out of his house and sounds as scary as his name, is used to portray an important theme in Harper Lee’s classic To Kill A Mockingbird.
The classic To Kill A Mockingbird has many themes and inspires many people to learn from the themes. One of the main themes is developed by Tim Johnson, the pet of Maycomb, Tom Robinson, a black man convicted of rape, and most surprisingly Boo Radley. The theme these characters are developing is that it is a sin to hurt or kill something that is not harmful. Tim Johnson is a nice dog that brought joy to the town of Maycomb but, is killed by Atticus. While Scout is playing with Jem, she sees Tim Johnson down the street. She describes him as, “Tim was a liver-colored

When he did, he saves Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell, who is trying to kill them. From the beginning of the book, he is misunderstood by the town since he never comes out. When Bob attacks the children, he notices it and helps them out but unknowingly he kills Bob. When he saved Jem he take Jem into the house and waits. Here, Scout figures out he is nice, friendly and quiet as well. Scout says, “He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives,”(Lee 273). This shows that Boo is sensitive and how much he cares about the children. He is not a threat in any way but is the opposite of that. But again, him not coming out makes it easy for other people to misjudge him and this is not the people’s fault. When Scout is telling what happened she says, “‘then somebody yanked Mr. Ewell down. Jem must have got up, I guess. That’s all I know…’,”(Lee 361). Boo pushes Bob Ewell and saves the children’s lives. This shows he is not actually what people think. Heck Tate understands all of this and says, “To my way of thinkin’, Mr. Finch, taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great service an‘ draggin’ him with his shy ways into the limelight—to me, that’s a sin,”(Lee 369-70). Heck Tate is right that it is wrong to put someone who is really shy in the spotlight. Boo is a mockingbird because all he is doing is helping out the Finches and it is wrong to hurt the innocent. In this case, he is shy and hence, they should not put him in the spotlight because it is going to hurt him. Like Scout says at the end it would be like to shoot a