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Boo Radley Chapter 4

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The game played during chapter 4 of To Kill A Mockingbird, involving Boo Radley, shows that ignorance resides in not just the children through their youth and imagination, but also in the adults in their uneducated/oblivious town. This is best shown when Mr. Nathan Radley passes the kids on his way to town, and the kids stop playing, and wonder what he would think about their game. This shows that the kids know what they are doing is wrong, and also shows how they don't want the one person that could be related to the rumors to see what they are doing, even though the rumors are not true, and Nathan wouldn't suspect anything of their game in the first place. In addition it shows how many people in town, such as the kids might believe in the

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