The answer here is prejudice. All folks are created equal but prejudice is dividing them‚ but Scout and Jem are too innocent to realize it. Jem being older realizes something about Boo Radley‚ who hasn’t been seen outside of his house since he was a teenager.“Scout‚ I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time. . . it’s because he wants
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Arthur "Boo" Radley is an enigmatic character in To Kill A Mocking bird who is shut up in his house throughout the novel. Although he was described as a monster who eats cats and squirrels‚ that was not the case. He is one of the "mockingbirds" in the novel‚ a kind man injured by the evil of mankind. The writer dropped many little hints that proved that he is an innocent‚ misunderstood and victimize person‚ structuring him into a "mockingbird". Arthur "Boo" Radley was discriminated and mocked
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Arthur ‘boo’ radley At the start of the novel ‘boo’ is described as a “malevolent phantom”. Boo is never seen outside the house. ”phantom” shows us that harper lee wants to hint that boo haunts his house like a ghost would. The fact that “phantom” is used and ghost isn’t means that the reader is meant to think that boo is evil. This is backed up by the word “malevolent” showing that boo wishes to harm others something only a “phantom” would do. This idea of Boo being a “phantom” is further enforced
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three distinct characteristics. In the book‚ “To Kill A Mockingbird‚” Dill displays a very adventurous characteristic. On page three‚ it says‚ “Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.” During the first half of the book Dill always tries to find out more about Boo Radley. Every summer‚ when Dill comes to Maycomb County‚ he studies the Radley house. The book always talks about how Dill hanging onto the light pole looking at the Radley house. He even dares Jem to touch the house
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Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the small-mindedness of the Maycomb community hiders Maycomb people to truly understand each other. Arthur Radley‚ also known as Boo‚ is assigned with negative characteristics without validation by the Maycomb community. As the story unfolds‚ Scout‚ the narrator‚ starts to know more about Boo Radley‚ Boo transforms from a mysterious and fearful person to the most heroic and sympathetic character in the novel. Scout experiences that hatred and biased will sully her
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Boo Radley is a character in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ who shows kindness and innocence when he leaves objects inside of the tree for Jem and Scout. He is also not able to do anything about people spreading rumors about him. He is very misunderstood at the beginning of the novel and is portrayed as a mean person because of the rumor that had been spread around saying that he had stabbed his father in the leg. Boo Radley shows his kindness and innocence in many ways throughout
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have a misunderstood neighbor named Boo Radley. Jem and Scout had many different perspectives on Boo. In the beginning they were scared. Going further into the book they become more curious. Towards the end they became friends. At the beginning of the novel two kids‚ Jem and Scout live in small town in Alabama. They start out with being terrified of their neighbor‚ Boo Radley. The book starts out with everyone having a bad feeling about Boo‚ People said the Boo Radley went out after midnight and
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Boo Radley is essential to the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" because he is a catalyst for many other things to happen through out the book. For example he allows the reader to see what the mentality of some of the people in Maycomb. For example Miss. Stephanie Crawford‚ who demonises Boo as a monster and also a large proportion of the community who‚ for example‚ will not eat the nuts produced by the tree on the Radley’s property as they will be poisoned. "Miss. Stephanie Crawford said she woke up
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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
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The many sides of Boo Radley Personality‚ or popularity of a person can make or break them. Those whom we know to be silly or a favorite among people are quite hard to forget. We also have those who never say much and let their work or actions speak for them. However‚ the people we never seem to notice are the ones who truly amaze us the most; such as the veiled character of Boo Radley in the book (To Kill A Mocking Bird). He was always mentioned in the book and never seen‚ yet‚ he intimidated and
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