Boo Radley Character Analysis Essay

"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." (Lee 13). That was how the children described Boo Radley in the beginning of the novel, they thought he was a frightening phantom that’s not even human anymore;Dill,Jem and Scout felt Boo was a good story character they could act out but Dill had the great idea of trying to get Boo out of home because he had sympathy for him,we know this because he asked Scout and Jem would feel if they were locked up for 100 years with nothing but cats to eat,
The children caused such chaos they got the whole neighborhood out on the Radley's front yard, because Nathan Radley (Boo’s brother) thought he shot a “niger”,instead the the neighborhood saw Jem in his underpants, so Dill lied and said they were playing “strip poker”, and that Jem lost his pants to him. Chapter When Jem went back, finding his ripped pants were sewed up, the way a man would sew them, the following day Jem and Scout found the same thread used for his pants in the knot hole letting the children know that Boo Radley was protecting them and he would help them in any way that he could. The children started grow fond of Boo he put little gifts in the knot hole letting them know he is a polite and loving person, which they believe is true when Boo came out on the night that Miss Maudie’s house caught on fire he covered Scout with a