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Why Is Boo Radley's Coming Of Age In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Never judge a person by how they look or based off of rumors you hear, and in the book, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows its significance. The story contains two young children, a young boy named Jem and his sister, Scout. Both go on a journey to find the deep understanding of their time and generation their living in. For some time there vision and thoughts on Boo Radley is filtered with rumors and beliefs. One of Scouts coming of age experiences is maintained through Setting, internal conflict, and tone. To begin with, Scout and Jem are clueless about Boo Radley, they've never met or spoke to him. All they know about Boo is all the rumors they've heard. “Boo bit it off one night when he couldn't find any cats and squirrels to eat”(pg.44). Boo Radley has many stories but most of which is not very pleasing. Besides all that, the kids have strong feelings that Boo Radley is not the beast everybody else is making him up to be. Scout tries to figure this man out, but Boo’s ghost-like lifestyle makes it an even harder challenge. …show more content…

Scout finds her way home behind some anonymous being carrying her brother. “But i found it and looked down to the street lights. A man was passing under it. The man was walking with the staccato steps of someone carrying a load to heavy for him”(pg.302). As she enters the house she is allowed to to see Jem, as she approaches Jem’s bed she sees the man that carried her brother home. She soon realizes that it’s someone she never would've thought would do something like that, Boo

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