Why Is Boo Radley Evil

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, there is a character named Boo Radley. The children believe Boo is an evil being who goes around the town at night making flowers die and slaughtering chickens, even though it was proven that it was not him. One reason they believe Boo is evil is because he is locked up and never actually leaves the house. Boo is locked up because he started the closest thing to a gang ever seen in their small town. He also apparently stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors. Scout and her brother Jem are terrified of Mr. Radley, mostly because of the rumors about him, they run past his house every single time they pass by on their way to school. They also think his father was scary and quiet, Scout likes Arthurs
brother more but is scared of him as well. Nathan, Boos brother, is scary to Scout because he is tall, rarely comes outside and when he does he never speaks. Now near the end of the book they actually meet Boo and realize that he is extremely different from what they imagined. Instead of a crazy cat eating mad man he is actually a very quite, shy, gentile old man. It just shows that a lot of times people are not in fact what they’re made out to be. That night as Scout walks Mr. Radley home and stands on his porch, looking out at her neighborhood like he would see it is when she fully understands what walking in another’s shoes is like.