Should The Kids Have Gone To Boo's House

What was Scout’s decision? Jem and Dill were going to peep in the window with the loose shutter to see if they could get a look at Boo Radley. Jem told Scout if she wasn’t going to be part of it to go home and keep her mouth shut. Scout decided to go along with the boys.

Here, it shows that since the kids never saw Boo, he must be locked up and is not able to come outside. Another reason the kids think he is locked up is because the doors of the Radley place are always closed. The text says, “The doors of the Radley house were closed on weekdays as well as Sundays, and Mr. Radley’s boy was not seen again for fifteen years” (Lee 13). This shows, Boo is locked up because their doors were closed so no one would see that Boo was locked up, and he was not seen again. The third reason the kids think he is locked up is because he never came out of the house when Mr. Radley died. Instead, his older brother returned most likely to keep Boo locked up in the house. Boo’s older brother would not have come home if it were not for having to keep an eye on him. Next, the kids are scared. The first reason they are scared is because they say the Radley pecans that fall in the schoolyard will kill you if you eat them. The book says, “...but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecans would kill you” (Lee 11). Here, it shows that they did not even touch the nuts, because they were so scared of anything that had to do with the Radley’s. One other reason they are scared is because

Boo being the mysterious neighbor that never comes out many rumors formed around him like when Jem said “ 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…” (16). All these rumors made it seem like Boo was a monster and the adults played along. On the contrary all of these false accusations came to an end when Boo steps up and defends Scout against Bob Ewell. He was a sickly white and acted almost childlike. Boo wasn’t a bad person but all the rumors that had built up made it seem that way and Scout learning the error of her ways decides to actually interact with him by walking him home. She sees after that all lies that were told were mere gossip and without getting to know the person better the rumor could never be broken. Not following rumor any longer and instead allowing people a chance and showing their true

Lastly, Boo is locked up because he stabs his dad in the leg with a pair of scissors. The quote, “Boo was locked in the courthouse basements” (Lee 14) tells the reader that Scout and Jem will not meet Boo because he is locked up. Boo eventually does his time in the court house and the reader may infer that because he stabbed his Dad, Boo’s guardian will keep him locked up in the house. I predict the kids will not meet Boo Radley because they are too scared. First of all, the kids in Maycomb are too scared to get a baseball in the Radley’s yard.

In fact Boo never steps outside his house most of the time let alone he goes and fights off Bob Ewell. He takes a risk of losing his life to try to save Jem and Scout. He didn’t have to take that risk, but he did which makes him

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

Atticus specifically told the kids to stay in one spot and he thought that they had run off. This is where the reader realizes that Boo Radley had snuck out of his house and draped a blanket around Scout. We see Boo Radley for the first time in this scene which is a major event that happened. The neighbors and townspeople believe that Boo Radley is crazy and deranged. However, in this scene, we see that Boo cares for Jem and Scout and that he is not the crazed person everybody rumors him to be.

I predict that the kids will not meet Boo. The towns people haven’t seen Boo. He has been locked up for fifteen years because of these reasons. He formed a gang with the Cunninghams from Old Sarum that was enourmus. He got sent to an Industrial school for charges of disorderly conduct. When he was thirty-three, drove a pair of scissors into his parent’s leg, and resumed his activites. The second reason is that the Family doesn’t scoalize like other families. They never went to church like other people. Mrs. Radley never joined a missionary circle like most women. The shutters and doors were always closed, no one was allowed to go in. Next is that people were scared of him because of these two reasons. The first reason is his phyiscal apperence.

At the time, Scout did not exactly understand why Jem was so upset, but if readers pay close attention, it is not difficult to see that he was crying out of sympathy for Boo and over the loss of a new friendship. Earlier in the chapter, readers find that Boo is communicating with the kids by leaving them small gifts in the “knot-hole” of a nearby tree (Lee 78). Jem grows a strong bond in his heart to the person who is leaving him and his little sister these thoughtful mementos. So, in return for the gifts, Jem decides to compose a short letter to

I have two questions regarding Boo and the kids. My first is if Boo is actually nice, why doesn’t he ever come out? He obviously likes the kids, he gave Scout a blanket at the fire, gives the kids presents at the tree, and tries to fix Jem’s pants even though he was trespassing. Also, he must get bored at the house. He’s been their for 15 years, his mom just died, only ever sees Nathan, and probably wants to disprove all the rumors about him. My second question is why are the kids so interested in Boo. It seems that they believe all the rumors about him. The rumors shouldn’t attract a kid to Boo, such as he has bloodstained hands, a messed up face and teeth, and also disappeared into his house for 15 years after he was thrown into custody.

People had many questions about what happened there but only knew some things. (Lee13) “ Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities. This made them fear what would happen if Boo Radley caught them. Through out the rest of the story they don't really go back to the house until the end when Scout and Jem are being attacked by Bob

Boo showed unbelievable bravery when Jem and Scout were walking home from a pageant. Boo risked leaving the walls of his home in which he hasn't left in years and years. Boo’s exposure to the outside world was slim to none and the fact that he was willing to leave the house in order to save the kids showed true bravery. The text shows that Boo could have been watching the kids his whole life waiting for the moment that he got to show that he is in fact there. Boo took another risk by fighting Bob Ewell who was slinging around a knife and was probably highly intoxicated. Boos decision to stab Bob in order to save Jem and Scout took immense bravery and here scout talks about the man carrying Jem and she says “"The man was walking with the staccato steps of someone carrying a load too heavy for him. He was going around the corner. He was carrying Jem. Jem’s arm was dangling crazily in front of him. By the time I reached the corner the man was crossing our front yard. Light from our front door framed Atticus for an instant; he ran down the steps, and together, he and the man took Jem inside." Boo Radley carried Jem all the way back to his house possibly exposing himself to people that never saw him before or people who were scared of him but Boo’s bravery pulled through and he did the right thing. If Boo left Jem

At the beginning of the novel, Boo Radley, Scout’s neighbor that never came out of his house, was a terror to Scout. She couldn't understand why he never came out because she hadn't learned how to see things from other’s points of view. “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough” (Lee 374). At the end of this novel, Scout understands how Boo saw the world and why he didn't come out until he needed to save Jem and Scout. Just standing on the Radley porch made her realize this but without learning the lesson beforehand, she would have never thought to even look at the world form Boos point of

Jem and Scout saw Boo Radley as a frightening man who was a childish superstition based off of the rumors from the town. As the children grew up the stories about Boo Radley caused them to become more fascinated than frightened by Boo. The Radley house intrigued them to the point where they snuck into the backyard to try to make Boo leave his house but that resulted in the children thinking that every sound they heard was Boo coming for revenge. In the first chapters, Jem describes how they pictured Boo, which 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…”. Logically it is understood just by Jem’s description that the children had no relationship with Boo Radley other than

In past chapters we had proved that Boo had been looking over them. The path they took to the school passed right in front of the Radley house, giving Boo the perfect view to see them walk to school and wait to see them get home safely, only they didn’t. It was then that he would’ve grabbed the knife and ran outside. The reason that Scout said telling everyone the truth would be like shooting a mockingbird is because, as said by Tate, “taking the one man who’s done [Atticus] and this town a great service an‘ draggin’ him with his shy ways into the limelight—to me, that’s a sin.” What he means is Boo has only ever helped Scout and Jem and telling everyone that Boo was a hero, would bring him lots of unwanted attention. That would be as bad as shooting a harmless bird. After talking with Atticus Scout walks Boo home and stands at the window by the front door. She stands there and observes the neighborhood, replaying all of the events in the past few years, but from Boo’s point of view. She sees herself roll into the yard in a tire, Jem and Dill acting out the scenes of his life, Mrs. House catching on fire, and finally her and Jem under the tree, needing his help one final