The House Was Bathed In Moonlight Boo Radley Analysis
In the story Harper Lee uses imagery to intensify the tone and feelings in the setting; when Boo Radley walks past Jem.
The first example “and the shadow crisps as toast”, in that line of imagery; just imagine the thoughts going through the kids when they see a six and a half foot tall lanky guy with a criminal record; by a eerie house only able to see him by the little bit of light the moon is putting off. Lee is rising the tension with that line of imagery. Pg. 71 Lee shows more imagery in the same scene by the line “the house was bathed in moonlight” by that the house was covered in dim light that was given from the moon. Making it so easy to see Boo Radley on the back porch of the house as Jem was peaking through. The author was intensifying
The first example “and the shadow crisps as toast”, in that line of imagery; just imagine the thoughts going through the kids when they see a six and a half foot tall lanky guy with a criminal record; by a eerie house only able to see him by the little bit of light the moon is putting off. Lee is rising the tension with that line of imagery. Pg. 71 Lee shows more imagery in the same scene by the line “the house was bathed in moonlight” by that the house was covered in dim light that was given from the moon. Making it so easy to see Boo Radley on the back porch of the house as Jem was peaking through. The author was intensifying