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To Kill A Mockingbird Boo Radley
I think that Boo Radley should be locked up in jail, he is reckless and dangerous. Who knows what he gets up to during the night while we’re all sleepin’! His brother says he stays in the house, but we don’t know that for sure, now do we.
Let me tell you a lil’ somethin’ about Boo Radley, he is a maniac. One night I awoke to see Boo
Radley starin’ right through my window at me, oh and I know that if I hadn’t woken and seen him, he would’ve tried to kill me in my sleep!
It is unsafe to have such a murderous psychopath kept under such lil’ security, after all he did try to kill his father, stabbin’ him with them scissors, so what’s stoppin’ him from coming after one of us, just that little door! I say, anyone who tries ta murder someone won’t hesitate ta murder someone else! I know for a fact that Dill, Jem and Scout always play around that crazy mans house, now how would
Atticus or Miss Rachael feel if one day Boo came out and killed one of them, huh? He’s bound to snap sooner or later, with those children tormenting him all day.
Don’t try and tell me that he’s harmless, because ya’ll know just as well as I do that this man is insane, when I go for my evening walks I sometimes see him, starin’ right through his window at me, with a crazy look in his eye!
And I know he leaves his house, because those Finch children found stuff in the knothole of that tree out ‘front of the Radley place, he’s been tryna lure them to him, with those silly little gifts, he wants to kill them and I just know it!
Something needs to be done about this man, right away! Boo Radley needs to be locked up for good, in a proper cell, with a guard and everything. I know his father said that no Radley is being locked away in an asylum but this man needs to be even if it’s just in a little jail cell at least.
We all know he was locked in the basement under the court house years ago, but they had to let him out, because he “almost died from the damp”
Well, I heard that that was just a big lie his

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