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What Does Boo Radley Represent In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Boo Radley is a character that is mysterious, but proves himself to be caring and kind with the way he treats Scout and Jem Finch. He is the subject of rumor, framing him as insane and violent by the people of Maycomb because he never leaves his home, when in reality he is just lonely. As Dill puts it, when asked why he doesn’t try to leave, “Maybe he doesn’t have anywhere to run off to.”(192). Throughout the novel, he watches over and goes out of his way to show Jem and Scout that he cares about them by leaving them trinkets in the knot hole of a tree or attempting to fix a hole in a pair of Jem’s pants. The theme that he represents is being a mockingbird. Boo is thought to be this awfully ominous man just
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