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Who Is Boo's Loss Of Innocence In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Throughout the novel “ To Kill a Mockingbird”, finally, we could realize who Boo Radley is. A character was regarded as a phantom in the house. Ironically, curious children such as Jem, Scout, and Dill are ones who coax Boo out into the real world. Everything involving Boo had faded away until the presents began to appear in the Radley tree, and Scout didn’t realize who had put them there. However we can guess that was Boo, and maybe Jem did too. In the last few chapters, Scout finally saw the real Boo, and he saved her and Jem from Bob Ewell. Boo is transformed from a monster into a human being. He appeared as a hero at the last minute. This makes Scout feels very guilty in her mind that she had never done anything to him. She thought innocently, “We never put back into the tree what we took out of it; we had given him nothing, and it made me sad” (373). She feels bad that until now she has treated Boo as an object not as a human. In reality, they didn’t …show more content…

Throughout the story, Boo has felt it from them although he always stayed in the house. He had to live in a separated world in the rest of his life. A world that filled up with the boredom until Jem, Scout, and Dill appeared around Boo’s house. Besides that, they also intruded Boo’s house three times. It emphasizes the carefree and innocent mind about them. As befits their innocence, they remain convinced of other people’s essential goodness, a conviction that the novel shares. The children were his only contact with the outside world, and they gave him a reason to show his human side outside the Radley house. In addition, in the novel, the mockingbirds are as established as the innocence. Furthermore, Jem and Scout are connected to the mockingbird symbol. Finally, Boo suddenly saved Jem and Scout because he couldn’t let those pitiful mockingbirds be killed by a hunter. In Boo’s mind they are his mockingbirds that give him the mood of

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