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In the beginning of the book the children see Boo radley as a monster and are very intrigued as well as intimidated by him, but they slowly realize he is like their friend. In the end, they understand that he is both their friend and hero, and not the monster that the stories have made him out to be. They see the whole world through their understanding and views, so everything is very difficult for them to understand. As they change the way they see things, looking from other people's perspectives, they have a better understanding of the world and what is going on. It is however, not all about the children's views, there are some points in the book where they include very important opinions of the adults.

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More than once she gossips to the kids about Arthur Radley and the Tom Robinson trial. She was a very bad influence because she was raised to think these ways. When they are talking about Boo in the book she gossips about how he stabbed his father and was thrown into jail, and she constantly told the children about horrible things that he had supposedly done. “"So Jem received most of his information from Miss Stephanie Crawford, a neighborhood scold, who said she knew the whole thing. According to Miss Stephanie, Boo was sitting in the livingroom cutting some items from 'The Maycomb Tribune' to paste in his scrapbook. His father entered the room. As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities."“ She was always seen getting into others business, she tried to hide her curiosity but it was often obvious that she was listening for things to gossip about. ““And where are you going, Stephanie?” inquired Miss Maudie. “To the Jitney Jungle.” Miss Maudie said she’d never seen Miss Stephanie go to the Jitney Jungle in a hat in her life.

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