“Boo was about six-and-a- half feet tall, judging his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained---- if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time” (Lee 16). In the well- loved novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Boo Radley is one of the most interesting characters. As one can see Jem describes him as some sort of monster or zombie,when Jem and his sister Scout talk about Boo in the book they tell it in a thrilling and scary way. They have never seen him before so they do not quite believe he is real, and they feel free to make …show more content…
When Jem and Scout were coming home from the Halloween Party at the school, they were cutting through the playground when someone attacked them. That person was Bob Ewell, he wanted revenge because Atticus had exposed him during the trial of raping his daughter. No one was for sure what happened that night because it was dark and hard to see. There were 4 people involved and Scout could only think of three people, her, Jem, and Bob. So who was the third person? Who had saved them? Atticus and Scout though it was Jem who fought off Bob and killed him, but little did they know that it was Boo Radley. Atticus wanted to say that Jem was the one who killed Bob, but Mr. Tate the Sheriff and a good friend would not have it because he knew the real truth. Mr. Tate was going to say that Bob fell on his own knife and killed himself. “I have never heard tell that it’s against the law for a citizen to do his utmost to prevent a crime from being committed, which is exactly what he did, but maybe you’ll say it’s my duty to tell all about it and not hush it up” (Lee 369). Mr. Tate knew that if the town found out who saved the children they would be knocking down his door and bringing him angel food cakes. “To, my way of thinking’, Mr. Finch, taking the one man who’s done you and this town a great service and’ dragging’ him with his shy ways into the the limelight---- to me, that’s a sin” (Lee 370). Scout later then said it would be like shootin a mockingbird. Everyone was skeptical of Boo since he was a child because of all the rumors and fantasies that went around about him, he did not want to be made a hero. When Mr. Tate and Atticus were having the conversation about what they were going to say to the public, Boo could've easily spoke up and said that he would tell everyone that it was him and be made a hero. Boo didn’t want to be made a hero showing the meekness and humility of his
Boo was extremely misunderstood. In chapter one, we find out that the entire neighborhood is afraid of Radley and his family. Everyone has made up stories about The Radleys. According to their neighbor, Miss Stephanie Crawford, he stabbed his dad with some scissors. In multiple chapters, Scout mentions that people have said that Boo eats wild animals. In chapter four, they mention that he bit off his mother’s fingers because he could not find any cats or squirrels to eat. Due to these stories about Boo, people wanted to kill him. Boo also never left his house. Scout’s brother Jem thought that Boo never left his house because his dad had him chained to the bed. While talking about misunderstanding people, Atticus hints at Boo and Walter Ewell. He tells her,
Jem and Scout meet several characters throughout the book who have a longer backstory than they thought by their appearances. Arthur “Boo” Radley, a man who is perceived as a monster by the townsfolk, after he was accused of stabbing his father in his house, with a pair of scissors in the thigh. Boo Radley gets judged bypeople assume
Boo Radley is one of the human mockingbirds in To Kill a Mockingird. people who, like the mockingbird, are innocent and harmless beings only capable of doing good (though this is not always recognized by everyone. Tom Robinson and many of the children in the novel are other examples of the human mockingbird). As Sheriff Tate had earlier explained, it would do no good for him to bring the reclusive Boo into the "limelight" of an investigation concerning Bob Ewell's death. Instead, Tate decides to call Bob's death self-inflicted in order to protect Boo. boo did a good deed for the town. Scout understands Tate's reasoning, and she applies the decision to one of Atticus' earlier warnings. It was okay to shoot blue jays, but "it was a sin to kill a
Although he may have been feared and gossiped about amongst the children on his street he chose to help them. Two of the children that he helped were Scout and Jem Finch. Scout and Jem had been on some people's “hit list” because of their dad’s courageous acts. On Halloween night, Scout and Jem were walking when they were attacked. Before anything terrible could happen Boo stepped in and stopped the man who was attacking the children and carried Jem home.
Although Boo Radley saved Jem and Scout he did not want any credit but he really did care. The Finch family did not know that Boo saved them until Scout spotted a shadow and noticed Arthur Radley. Atticus was so thankful of what Boo did for his children
The last reason that everyone was scared of Boo is because he watched people through their
He killed Bob Ewell. Later that night, with Boo standing right in front of her, Scout thinks about how she has anticipated this moment. Scout has planned out what to say when she finally meets Boo Radley but none of is seems to be said. Then Scout walks Boo
Scout also doesn’t realize how much this would help Boo in the future. As a child, Scout would feel so bad, but as an adult, Scout feels so helpful. For once, Boo wasn’t a scary monster; he was a real human to the Finch
On Halloween night, while the children were walking home. Bob Ewell attempted to kill them with a kitchen knife. Heck Tate insisted to Atticus to tell the people of Maycomb, Bob Ewell fell on his knife instead it was Boo Radley who killed him, “…taking the man who’s done you and this town a great service an’ draggin’ him with his shy ways into the limelight-to me that’s a sin”(370). Boo Radley saved the children’s lives by killing Bob Ewell, giving him credit for that would render him unwanted attention, not something he would be able to survive. Heck Tate went against the law by letting Boo Radley continue to live in the darkness, however the rules could not be followed in this
Boo was innocent because he was trying to save Jem and Scout from Bob, so it would be wrong and stressful to make him go to court. Scout also now understands what Atticus has been teaching
From the very beginning of the book, Boo Radley is painted as a sociopathic monster by the town; from allegedly freezing azaleas with his own breath to mutilating pets at night, the gossips and imaginative minds of Maycomb would pull no stops when crafting his urban legend. The children eventually try to have fun with him by pulling pranks and challenging themselves against him, reaching for every inch of his psyche as though he were a poor bird in its nest trying to avoid spitballs. Despite this, he remains indirectly cordial to them and shows his appreciation for them by continuing to “sing his heart out” to the only people he can express himself to, even if they kept acting so insufferable to him, by leaving them gifts in a hollow tree stump and warming them with blankets outside. The whole ordeal blows over as the kids focus their attention to the other mockingbird of the story, and he is able to remain isolated from society, yet he continues to convey his amnesty to the kids’ sins near the end of the book, going as far as to save them and do away with the hunter of the first mockingbird. Heck Tate, having been mostly neutral to Maycomb’s citizens’ plights up until this point, decides to spare him from the usual deal of publicity that comes from murder, positive or negative, stating that “dragging him with his shy ways into the limelight - that’s a sin” (276), bringing the mockingbird motif full
Scout, Jem, and Dill then discuss why Boo stays hidden. This is when Dill explained, “Maybe he doesn’t have anywhere to runoff too” (Lee 192). Dill suggest that Boo might have been through a l;ot and doesn’t have any loved ones to go to. We then realize Boo symbolizes innocence being destroyed because when he was little he has had no one to care for or love. One of the most memorable scenes is when Atticus and Heck Tate realize that Boo killed Bob Ewell. They discuss whether or not to expose him but Scout comes in and states “well, it’d be sort of like shootin a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?” (Lee 370). Scout believes that by exposing Boo to the public after all these years of him locked in his house, it would be like killing an innocent mockingbird. At this moment Boo Radley officially becomes a mockingbird.
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