Why Is Boo Radley Real In To Kill A Mockingbird

Things aren’t always what they seem. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, there are lots of characters that have back stories that explain themselves, but a character named Aurther Radley is greatly mistaken because of rumors going on about him, giving him the nickname “Boo Radley.” Boo Radley, a boy who was very troublesome in his youth, had gone to many juvenile detention centers and had done lots of bad things. One day, his father had enough and he was locked in his home and could never go out. Years have gone by and people started to talk about how Boo Radley had stabbed his father's leg while cutting up some newspaper with scissors. People wanted him in an asylum but his father refused and just kept him in the house for ever longer, which

One day, the three were messing around and they sent Scout rolling inside a tire into the Radley’s porch, when they ran away, Scout told Jem that she had heard a laugh coming from inside the house and when she had looked back, she said she saw a flicker of light coming from the blinds which meant that Boo Radley had been watching them fooling around. Meaning that Boo Radley is an actual person, not a Phantom like how the kids ]]]JFCdescribed him

Jem later finds out that Nathan Radley had filled up the hole with cement and said “Trees dying”. You plug ‘em with cement when they’re sick.” Jem finds out later that the tree isn’t sick and that the hole was filled with cement so that Boo Radley stops putting gifts inside the tree, which makes him and Scout very sad. Later in the story, there was a pageant where Scout had to dress up as ham and show up on the stage but she fell asleep and ruined it. When Jem and Scout were walking home, Jem heard noises behind them and when they stopped, the noise also stopped. They kept walking and Scout eventually hears it too, she thinks that it was Cecil Jacob and says “Cecil Jacob is a he-n,” but no reply. Jem figures they are actually being followed and they keep walking, when they reach the tree that lets them know they are close to their house, but then Bob Ewell comes out of hiding and attacks the two, their comotion was heard by Boo Radley who comes out of his house with a kitchen knife and kills Bob Ewell and carries Jem to Atticus’s house where Scout sees Boo Radley for the first