Arthur Radley Personality

The way that the novel’s characters regard Arthur Radley greatly suggest how they accept the world around them. It seems that, for many in this town because of its setting, bringing out the worst in people is easier than accepting their human truth.

The class was very chaotic with many unexpected events including Burris Ewell’s bugs and rude behavior, and Walter Cunningham’s absence of lunch and refusal of money. Miss Caroline did not know how to properly handle some situations because she was on edge nothing seemed to be going exactly going as planned. Not only was Scout able to step into Miss Caroline’s shoes, but later in the novel she got to see what it was like to walk around in Boo Radley’s shoes. At first Scout thinks of Arthur “Boo” Radley as a terrible, violent man who did not love or appreciate anyone. This impression of Boo was made up of almost entirely rumors. Some of these include When Boo stabbed his father’s leg with a pair of scissors at the age of 33, and how Boo would go out in the dead of night and peep into other people's windows. Other rumors comprised of people's azaleas froze when Boo breathed on them, and how the pecans that dropped from the Radley tree on to the school grounds would kill any person who touched it. Besides the rumors, there are some facts that support Scout’s perception of Arthur Radley. One of these is that Boo had gone unseen for a period of 15 years and had no other human interaction besides his

Set in the town of Maycomb County, this novel describes the journey of two young kids growing up in a small-minded town, learning about the importance of innocence and the judgement that occurs within. The individuals of Maycomb are very similar, with the exception of Arthur “Boo” Radley, the town’s recluse. Boo Radley has never been seen outside, and as a result of this, the children in the town are frightened of him and make up rumors about the monstrous things he allegedly does. This leaves the individuals in the town curious as to if Boo Radley really is a “malevolent phantom” like everyone assumes that he is or if he is just misunderstood and harmless. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Boo Radley is a saviour. This is

Arthur Radley experiences social prejudice throughout the novel, hence, he is marginalised by the people of Maycomb. He is firstly portrayed as a mysterious character through the rumours of the towns. On pg9 various sentences such as, “Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed but Jem and I had never seen him. People said he went out at night when the moon was high and peeped in windows. When people’s azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was

Everyone in Maycomb believes that the Radleys are dangerous and no one dares to really talk to them. They don’t follow the unwritten social rules that everyone else follows, and that is weird and mysterious to people. The community is mostly suspicious of Arthur Radley, also known as Boo Radley. People believe he is hostile because when he was a teen, he got in with the wrong crow and was arrested. Fifteen years later, he had another incident.

She had heard a very loud scream but she couldn’t see him. Scout looked down the road and thankfully saw someone carrying Jem home. She couldn’t distinguish who the person was but she guessed it was Atticus. She ran home and found Jem inside. He had broken his elbow and was in an immense amount of pain. She looked around the room and knew everyone in there expect for a very tall figure standing in the corner. The person in the corner was Arthur Radley! He had heard the children screaming and ran up and saved them. When the sheriff went to where the children were attacked he saw that Mr. Ewell had fallen and stabbed himself in the ribs and he laid there, dead.

Arthur “Boo” Radley is a man who was involved in a gang when he was young. Now he is seen as an insane and murderous person by the town. People rumor him to walk around at night and peer in people's windows and eat squirrels and cats.

2. Arthur Radley, or “Boo Radley”, the son of Mr. Radley is a distant, lonely, isolated man who isn’t ever seen by people outside his house. People in Maycomb perceive him as an awful person, with a terrifying appearance who fills them with aghast.

2. Arthur Radley, or “Boo Radley”, the son of Mr. Radley is a distant, lonely, isolated man who isn’t ever seen by people outside his house. People in Maycomb perceive him as an awful person, with a terrifying appearance who fills them with aghast.

Myths said that inside the house of the Radleys lived a malevolent phantom, people said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in the windows. The name of this phantom was Boo Radley, but his actual name is Arthur and in reality it’s just a myth and know one knows for sure. Other myths say that he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that would explain why his hands were bloodstained, he was also known to have a huge jagged scar across his face. However these are rumors made up from kids probably and couldn’t be more farther than the truth. Another myth comes from Miss Stephanie Crawford, she said she woke up in the middle of the night one time and saw him looking through the window at her, this one can be true

In Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the character Arthur “Boo” Radley is portrayed as misunderstood, brave, and later on caring. The purpose of the character Arthur “Boo” Radley shows us not to judge a book by its cover. This novel follows siblings Scout and Jem; along with their dad, Atticus Finch. They are a family that lives in Maycomb County. Atticus is a successful lawyer, therefore, he is always busing. Scout and Jem spend most of their summer spying on their neighbor Boo Radley.

As Scout and Jem walk home from the pageant they got attacked by Mr. Ewell. They screamed for help and the only person that heard them was Arthur (Boo) Radley. So he ran out to rescue their lives. This is the first time Mr.Radley left his house and the first time Scout saw him. To most people it was a mystery how Mr. Radley looked. When he was at Scout’s house he went to the farthest corner and the people there acted as if Mr. Radley was invisible.

When I finished chapter three in the book To Kill a Mockingbird, I predicted that the kids would not meet Arthur (Boo) Radley. There are a lot of reasons they will not meet him. One reason is that he is locked up. Boo Radley was not the only one that was locked up. The whole family never left the house.

Arthur “Boo” Radley was another character that was alienated from society; however he was confined to his house for so many years that he eventually just became separated from the outside world. Many people were afraid of him because of rumors they heard saying he was psychotic, but in all reality his only problem was that he had one run in with the law.

Mr. Radley is a shy, kind man who has never harmed a soul is constantly misjudged by society. He is referred to as a mockingbird because of his innocence. His innocence is shown when he tries to become friends with scout and Jem by leaving them gifts. His innocents also comes out when he saves Jem and Scout from Bob ewell. Scout knows it would be a sin to bring him to trial for the death of Mr. Bob Ewell, because hurting Mr.Radley would be like “shootin’ a mockingbird”(Lee 276).