Everybody in Maycomb thought that Boo and his family were strange and scary. Nobody knew who they were because nobody talked to them or nobody invited them into their house. When Boo Radley saves Jem her life, Scout soon realises that Boo Radley is just a folk like her and there was no need to be afraid of him. Like Atticus tells
Boo sees Scout and Jem as his children. Boo has watched the kids grow up over the years. He's sorta laid back and comes in with his “children” need him. At the beginning of the book Boo has already been characterized as someone he's not. More towards the middle he starts to show up more but still is out of everyone's way.
Boo communicated with Scout and Jem in a way that no one would think of. He would always have something for them inside the tree trunk, once he would put gum, another was a watch, after his father knowing that he communicates with the children he decide to block the tree trunk with cement. Boo also covered scout with a blanket without her knowing. When there was a fire and her and jem had to go out scout and jem where both cold and didn’t feel when boo came and covered them with a blanket without them feeling him. But what was something important was when he defended them when Bob Ewell attacked them.
Boo Radley is firmly misunderstood by the people of Maycomb and seen as a menace to society , just as the mockingbird was. Many people in Maycomb know the tale of the scissors. It goes
It all starts when the kids are sneaking in his yard trying to get a look at the so called, “crazy man”. Jem is forced to leave his pants after they get stuck on the fence, when he is making his escape. Boo, finds the pants and fixes the rips caused by the fence. Later, during the house fire, Scout mysteriously has a blanket draped over her shoulders. They soon find out that the blanket came from Boo.
And the fact that the children had been so suspicious with their games recently did not help the matter. In chapter nine it says, "Boo was about 6 and a half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were blood stained- if you ate an animal raw,you could never wash the blood off. there was a long jagged scar that ran across his face.” Boo was usually the center of attention for Jem and Scout. Every little scenario they received around town, mostly from Stephanie Crawford, was believed, and used in their games.
What comes to mind when Jem said that is that Boo was a monster, but Boo is far from a monster. His double life comes up at the end of the book when it is proven that Boo was the one who stabbed Jem and Scout, which means he saved them. That action along with when he puts the blanket on Scout during the fire shows that he is actually a caring and loving guy and he’s nothing like what the rumors say about
Children are born curious, with curiosity comes judgment and often misconceptions. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ delineates the themes of misunderstanding and prejudice depicted through the characterisation of a villain who is ‘about six and a half feet tall’ with ‘a long jagged scar that ran across his face’ and teeth that was ‘yellow and rotten’. Boo Radley’s reclusiveness led to constant discrimination and mocking, however, through progressive stages of the novel when Boo’s true intentions are revealed, the children’s prejudgment and ongoing fear of the Radley’s change. Boo Radley’s mysterious persona is the basis of community gossip, although he does not physically encounter any characters at the beginning of the story, adults such as the ‘neighbourhood
For example,they say he’s weird because he only comes out in the night. Scout and Jem are two kids that want to know Boo. Later in the story Boo gets to be known for who he really is. In the end they know that boo gets misunderstood.
Overtime, Scout realizes that they are just disrupting Boo, and decides to stop trying to lure him outside. She almost completely forgets about Boo, until he saves both her and Jem from Mr. Ewell who was attacking them. When Scout first saw Boo, she teared up, since she only fantasized about that very moment. Curiosity struck Scout and her
Although, one dark night he proved himself a good man and a hero. Boo Radley is a quiet man who is predominantly misunderstood, is unknown yet unique, and who is unexpectedly compassionate. Boo Radley has been misunderstood ever since he was a child by the people in Maycomb. When Boo was a teenager growing up in Maycomb, he became acquainted with a few boys who were the town’s closest example of a gang. One night they did something they thought would be hilarious, but they paid the consequences.
Jem also started with this fear of Boo, but Jem begins to realize that Boo is truly a kind person. This comes to light for Jem through the gifts that Boo leaves them and the mending of Jem's pants. The physical attack of Bob Ewell on the children Jem and Scout showed the evil in the world around
Some people who reside in the town of Maycomb may think that Arthur “Boo” Radley is a creepy man. Others may say that he stabbed his father with a pair of scissors or that he enjoys feasting on cats and squirrels. Well, these statements are nothing, but just rumors. The truth is that Boo Radley is definitely not evil. He is only a gentleman who was defined by his dark past.
“One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.” Walter Dean Meyers vividly expresses the horror that the twenty yearlong Vietnam War had brought upon American soldiers and service people in Vietnam from 1955 to 1975. Through the Truman Doctrine, the Diem Regime, and the Domino Theory, the involvement of the United States in the War in Vietnam War was justifiable. What happened after the United States traveled to Asia, was not.
The majority of the lessons he has taught Scout throughout this paperback, I have kept in my brain. Scout and Jem are two very intelligent children. In the beginning of the book they’re inexperienced, but as the plot carries on, you get to read about how they grow and mature. One of the many lessons taught in this book is not to judge a book by its cover. On page 13 Jem gives a reasonable description of Boo, "Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off.
