To Kill A Mockingbird Book Report Essay

I am reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and I am on page 42. This book is about Two children Scout and Jem who live their lives in the Great Depression, they have a close friend named Dill. They are very scared of Boo and his family. Schooling during this time is very different, teachers don't teach much, didn't like it when scout already knew how to read and write. In this paper I will be Predicting and Evaluating.
I predict the kids will not meet boo. A main reason they will not meet Boo is because he is always locked up. Boo Radley never comes outside or leaves the house. “Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom” (Lee 10), this quote shows how he is almost like a phantom because he never leaves the house. “People said he existed but me and Jem never
Boo Radley may also be locked up because his father died and he could be grieving. His father did die suddenly and could have caused Boo to get in a very sad state in his life. Soon after his brother came to replace his father, but no one can ever be the same as his father. Boo will not leave the house maybe because his fathers sudden death caused him to stay in all the time. Another main reason the kids will not meet Boo is because Everyone is scared of Boo. Jem and Scout always run past the Radley home after school, or whenever they pass that home, because they fear that home. The whole town of Maycomb knows not to knock on their door, even on Sunday's, because that family scares them all. In the schoolyard pecan nuts fall in the schoolyard spreading all throughout the grass. Even though they look okay everybody knows not to eat those pecans because they fell of the Radley’s tree. If you eat those pecans you will die! This neighborhood is very friendly, everybody knows each other but Scout and Jem know not to go near the Radley home, they won’t knock on his door. Scout and Jem are also scared of Boo because they fear he will hurt