To Kill A Mockingbird Boo Radley Analysis
The Evolution of Boo Radley’s Character in To Kill a Mockingbird Leah and I worked together to create two acrylic paintings that show Scout’s growth in her perspective of Boo Radley. Our reason for choosing acrylic paint is because it comes in a wide range of colors that we could use to express our message and theme. Another reason we chose to use acrylic is because it is very versatile and can be made to appear like watercolor or oil paint. The first scene that we chose to portray is when the children are observing the Radley house in the beginning of the book. The second scene that we chose to illustrate was when Scout walks Boo Radley back to his home at the end of the book.
In the painting where the children are looking at the Radley
place, the house has been painted in cool colors, which are generally darker and moodier. The house is intended to appear mysterious, gloomy, and intimidating. The children are painted in bright colors to contrast their youth, happiness, and life with Boo’s seclusion and mystery. Dill has his arm around the pole, as he is usually described, and the children wonder about what goes on inside that enigma of a house.
In the beginning of the book, Boo seems like a monster who is rumoured to eat cats and squirrels. He is described as a “malevolent phantom” who was blamed for every negative thing that occurred in Maycomb, including flowers freezing and and small crimes. He was even blamed for mutilating chickens and pets. Even the pecans from his trees were considered dangerous. They believed that Boo was six and a half feet tall, with yellow teeth, a scar running across his face, and bloodstained hands. They were told that he stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors. These stories and rumors that the neighbors told of Boo greatly affected the children’s perception of him.
However, later in the book, Boo Radley becomes more human, and rather than being a monster, he is a hero. His humanization begins when he leaves presents in the tree for the children to find, though at this point they continue to act out his life. Later, Miss Maudie says that he was polite as a child, no matter what anyone else may say. After this, Boo clumsily attempts to mend Jem’s pants and folds them for when Jem returns to take them home, makes tiny dolls out of soap that resemble Jem and Scout and leaves them in the tree, and puts a blanket around Scout when it is snowing and Miss Maudie’s home is on fire. Nathan Radley discovers that Boo has been leaving gum and presents for the children and cements the hole in the tree. Nathan lies and tells the children that the tree is dying, but Jem and Scout realize that the tree is perfectly healthy and Nathan just wanted to cut off the communication between Boo and the children. As the book goes on, Scout begins to mature and realize that Boo is not a monster, he is just lonely from being cut off from the rest of the town.
In the painting in which Scout is walking with Boo Radley, his house has been painted with warm colors, which are lively and represent happiness. Scout no longer fears Boo after he saves her life and Jem’s, she now respects him and helps him walk back home. She walks him home, making it appear as if he is the one leading her to avoid having their neighbor, Miss Stephanie Crawford, judge him. As she stands on the porch, she is finally able to see the world from his point of view. Boo wasn’t always trapped in his home, he just had nowhere else to go. It is at this point when she becomes fully aware that Boo is not a scary man, but a scared child, who never got a chance to grow up.
In the painting where the children are looking at the Radley
place, the house has been painted in cool colors, which are generally darker and moodier. The house is intended to appear mysterious, gloomy, and intimidating. The children are painted in bright colors to contrast their youth, happiness, and life with Boo’s seclusion and mystery. Dill has his arm around the pole, as he is usually described, and the children wonder about what goes on inside that enigma of a house.
In the beginning of the book, Boo seems like a monster who is rumoured to eat cats and squirrels. He is described as a “malevolent phantom” who was blamed for every negative thing that occurred in Maycomb, including flowers freezing and and small crimes. He was even blamed for mutilating chickens and pets. Even the pecans from his trees were considered dangerous. They believed that Boo was six and a half feet tall, with yellow teeth, a scar running across his face, and bloodstained hands. They were told that he stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors. These stories and rumors that the neighbors told of Boo greatly affected the children’s perception of him.
However, later in the book, Boo Radley becomes more human, and rather than being a monster, he is a hero. His humanization begins when he leaves presents in the tree for the children to find, though at this point they continue to act out his life. Later, Miss Maudie says that he was polite as a child, no matter what anyone else may say. After this, Boo clumsily attempts to mend Jem’s pants and folds them for when Jem returns to take them home, makes tiny dolls out of soap that resemble Jem and Scout and leaves them in the tree, and puts a blanket around Scout when it is snowing and Miss Maudie’s home is on fire. Nathan Radley discovers that Boo has been leaving gum and presents for the children and cements the hole in the tree. Nathan lies and tells the children that the tree is dying, but Jem and Scout realize that the tree is perfectly healthy and Nathan just wanted to cut off the communication between Boo and the children. As the book goes on, Scout begins to mature and realize that Boo is not a monster, he is just lonely from being cut off from the rest of the town.
In the painting in which Scout is walking with Boo Radley, his house has been painted with warm colors, which are lively and represent happiness. Scout no longer fears Boo after he saves her life and Jem’s, she now respects him and helps him walk back home. She walks him home, making it appear as if he is the one leading her to avoid having their neighbor, Miss Stephanie Crawford, judge him. As she stands on the porch, she is finally able to see the world from his point of view. Boo wasn’t always trapped in his home, he just had nowhere else to go. It is at this point when she becomes fully aware that Boo is not a scary man, but a scared child, who never got a chance to grow up.