Boo Radley In 'To Kill A Mockingbird'

Boo Radley developed with his Almost unnoticeable interaction with Scout at the end of Chapter 8. Scout is watching Miss Maudie's house on fire and when atticus comes back he notices something. Scout is wrapped in a blanket that she didn't have when she left the house.Scout says that she stayed right where he told her to, in front of the Radley Place, but she and Jem saw Mr. Nathan fighting the fire. They Come to the conclusion that it must have been Boo who had put it on her. This would step up the interaction that boo had previously had with the children and now. This also contributes to the Children's Mystery regarding Boo Radley

I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I am on page 35. This book is about a girl named Scout, her father named Atticus, her brother called Jem, and her friend called Dill, in the small town of Maycomb. We follow Scout through her trials with 1st grade, her relationship with Calpurnia, and Boo Radley. In this paper I will be predicting and evaluating.

Then I realized that of course Tom had little chance of winning against the word of a white man. Even Atticus says "They're ugly, but those are the facts of life." as Scout also with the racism prevalent in her government. When Tom Robinson is shot he is described as charging towards the fence of his shooter while several warning shots are being fired. He is depicted angry, crazed and hostile by the witness although proof shows he was always the opposite during his life. It reminded me how in our modern lives black men and women are being killed everyday by citizens and police. In the media even after death they are dehumanized and portrayed as being angry, crazed, stupid in their final moments while having no past of being such a way. Black people, all people of colour being shot an lied about. Mike Brown, a yound adult killed only last year had five warning shots fired directly into his back while fleeing the scene. It sounds an awful lot like what happened to Tom Robinson. Both running, both innocent, both black, both killed by white men of authority and both blamed for their own

Jem describes what he thinks Boo looks like to Charles Baker Harris, known as, “Dill”, a boy who comes to Maycomb County, every summer to stay with his aunt, Mrs. Rachel Haverford. When Dill first asks about Boo Jem describes in detail, his perception of Boo Radley. “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 are bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time” (Lee 65).

In To Kill A Mockingbird, one of the characters in the book, Boo Radley, is perceived as a very violent and unintelligent individual compared to the average Maycomb citizen. Boo is labeled with this classification because when he was 33, he was using scissors to cut out newspaper articles and he suddenly stabbed his father, Mr. Radley, in the leg and went back to cutting the paper immediately after. After more consideration of the book, however, Boo could be depicted by numerous people as a nice person and just distressed by his current home situation. The motive for his unexpected aggression possibly was not because he was crazy, but because he had been locked away in his house for years as a consequence of a minor incident with the law

After Atticus did his best to defend Tom in court to persuade the jury, nothing worked and Tom was sentenced to life in prison. As the plot thickens, Tom gets convicted and sent to prison, and he spends a few weeks there until he is shot by security guards attempting to “escape” from prison. The “Toms are dead. Aunt Alexandra put her hands to her mouth “They shot him” said Atticus”(Lee 235). This quote proves Tom's death.

Throughout the movie there are a lot of issues that come up with both the movie and the book telling it in different ways, as the book may leave something out as well as the movie they are both two different things. Jem and scout are both very fascinated by Boo Radley. There are a lot of things different from the book and the movie, here are some things for the movie that are different from the book. First Jem did not have to read daily to Mrs. Dubose rather than the book she had to since she was reading at home when she shouldn’t have been second, Dill is Miss Stephanie Crawford’s son but in the

Mr Radley was ashamed of his son’s behaviour when he got into the wrong crowd as a youngster and punished him by locking him up. There is a lot of gossip around Maycomb about Boo and people blame him for any bad things that happen in the neighbourhood, ‘Any stealthy crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.’ Jem turns him into a monster, ‘his hands were blood-stained’, and ‘his eyes popped’. At the end of the novel however, we find that Boo is misunderstood, and gossip of the town’s folk has made him up to be a ‘malevolent phantom’. Scout tells us he is timid, he had, ‘the voice of a child afraid of the dark’.

Scout, Jem, and Dill work many summers to try to get Boo to come out of the Radley house for the first time in many years. Jem had been told many things about Boo in his short years in Maycomb, and he tells his sister Scout about the ‘monster’, saying, “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. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time” (chap. 1). Jem’s ideas about Boo are very biased toward rumors that can be heard around Maycomb. This shows how Maycomb’s people often judge before they know, seeing as no one has seen Boo Radley in over twenty years and people are prejudiced to believing the unknown is always bad. Prejudice and rumors can often not be trusted and Boo Radley is no exception. After Miss Maudie’s house catches fire and half the town rushes outside to watch it burn, Atticus tells Scout, “someday you should thank him for covering you up” then Scout asks, “Thank Who?” And gets a response from Atticus, “Boo Radley. You were too busy looking at the fire, you didn’t even notice when he put the blanket around you” (chap. 8). Boo Radley is not really a bad person, he

Boo is like a monster to Dill, Jem and Scout throughout the beginning of the novel although once the children see that he leaves them gifts inside a knothole in the tree in between their houses. He is only seen on one occasion in the novel, although he is talked about many times because Scout and Jem take an interest in him once they start to find out who he really is as a person. Boo Radley never really left his house even when he could simply because

The novel To Kill A Mockingbird is successful in delivering the story in a manner that captivates the audience. The story began by setting the scene, mood and also by introducing each character, which familiarized the reader with the environment. The author wrote the story in a manner that flowed with real life events of a time relative to the story, such as the segregation, racism and any financial struggles. It also did well to give each character a realistic mindset and reactions based on each person’s respective characterization. In a similar way, the story was written from the perspective of Scout, and the story was effectively narrated with the innocence and a lesser knowledge coming from someone of her age. Additionally, the story did a particularly good job at introducing details that were important to the story as it progressed so there were no surprises based on a sudden law change, for example. This aided in building the story to its climax, and other peaks of action. Each element to the story worked in sync to maneuver easily through the plot in a well thought out and executed story.

Scout implied that if Heck Tate turned Boo Radley in, an innocent person, it would be sinful. Boo Radley has never done anything bad and the one time he tried to help and reveal himself he is accused for a crime. It would be a sin for us to hang a mockingbird. Heck Tate knew so he tried to explain it to Atticus that it was self-defense but Atticus couldn't accept it. He forces his decision to be final to keep Boo Radley safe. Boo is definitely a mockingbird in this novel. He gave Jem and Scout presents, sowed Jem's pants back and the covered Scout with a blanket. All he does is give and give just like a Mockingbird and is filled with innocence. He nearly gave his life to save Jem and Scout but saved the kids just in time and thanks to Heck

Throughout Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem, Scout, and Boo Radley played a meaningful and important role. As the novel progressed the relationship of Jem, Scout, and Boo Radley developed in a significant way. The children had a growing curiosity of Boo Radley in the first few chapters of the novel. Eventually the curiosity faded as the children became more mature and the novel lost its innocence. However, by the end of the novel the events caused Jem and Scout to obtain an amicable relationship with Boo Radley. The development of the relationship between Boo Radley and the children created a meaningful back story which allowed the novel to have a heartwarming touch on many people.

Boo was seen as an evil phantom in the beginning of the book but later on in the book he was described to be a friendly person. Radley’s family has always been anti-social. Since they are anti-social the matters of the family never came out so, people started to assume about them. Most of the rumors are about Boo because he hasn’t been out of the house for years. The rumors were that he stabbed his father with scissors during his 15th year and he was chained to the bed as punishment. Jem, Scout, and Dill actually believed these rumors were true at first. They even use play a game, where they are acting one of the Radley's family

At the beginning of the story, Jem and Scout was young , childish and lacked the ability to see things from other's point of view. From the children's point-of-view, their most compelling neighbor is Boo Radley, a man that always stay in his house and none of them has ever seen. During the summer , they find Boo as a chracacter of their amusement. They sneak over to Boo house and get a peek at him. They also acting out an entire Radley family. "Jem parceled out our roles: I was Mrs. Radley, and all I had to do was come out andsweep the porch. Dill was old Mr. Radley: he walked up and down the sidewalk andcoughed when Jem spoke to him. Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the frontsteps and shrieked and howled from time to time"(chapter 4). Eventually , Atticus catch them and order