Boo Radley's: Diary Entry

How do you us the word “conviction”? Do you use it to criminalize someone, or do you use it to show your faith in something? With a single word you can send out a message of guilt, or you can send out a message of sureness. Conviction is a symbol of courage, decision, and action.

Boo was seen as an evil phantom in the beginning of the book but later on in the book he was described to be a friendly person. Radley’s family has always been anti-social. Since they are anti-social the matters of the family never came out so, people started to assume about them. Most of the rumors are about Boo because he hasn’t been out of the house for years. The rumors were that he stabbed his father with scissors during his 15th year and he was chained to the bed as punishment. Jem, Scout, and Dill actually believed these rumors were true at first. They even use play a game, where they are acting one of the Radley's family

The title, To Kill a Mockingbird, is a huge aspect of this book. Harper Lee chose an appropriate title because it explains how innocent people can be destroyed in the face of evil. The two people who symbolize the mockingbird are Boo Radley and Tom Robinson.

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, one of the characters, Boo Radley, has a specific role. Boo Radley’s role shows us what effect rumors have on people, and how powerful rumors can be. In addition, it teaches us a moral of not believing every rumor that people pass on, because most of the time it's a lie. At the beginning of the book, Scout and Jem, two of the main characters, discuss the rumors that they heard about Boo, what he did, and his family. Boo does not have a positive reputation in his town. Boo doesn’t go out of his house very often , which leads people to make up rumors and spread these untruthful lies to the town. Harper Lee leaves us, the readers, without really knowing who Boo Radley is and whether or not these

1-2 The author depicts Boo Radley as a very haunting character, there to put suspense into the story. I think he may have a big impact in the story later on. The narrator Scout, and Dill and Jem often mess around the Radley house, daring each other to touch the porch. Scout is very smart, as she can already read as she starts school. Miss.

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.

Isabella Scott Mr. Abney English 9CP Per. 3 6 December 6, 2014 Essay In Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, the author characterized Boo Radley in a way that paralleled Maya Angelou, showing how their expanding perspective of prejudice lead to their aspiration to overcome false beliefs created by ignorant people.

Both To Kill A Mockingbird and the book The Hunger Games share a theme that shows courage stems from fighting ones internal fears. In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” Boo Radley is known for being an a mysterious, antisocial and Crossover with occasionally violent boy according to the way scout describes him “the doors of the Radley house were closed on weekdays as well as Sundays, and Mr.Radleys boy was not seen again for fifteen years.” (Lee 13). Despite Boo Radley being exceptionally shy he bravely steps out of his home to cover scout with a blanket after a recent fire “Boo Radley. You were too busy looking at the fire you didn’t know it when he put the blanket around you.” (Lee 96) .Boo Radley fights his internal fear

“Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them” (Lee 374). Scout, the main character of the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, realizes that her father, Atticus, correctly assessed that people like Boo Radley, their neighbor whom Scout had only heard rumors about, turn out far different in real life than what people say. Often, people’s perceptions differ from reality. For example, sometimes people misjudge others abilities or intentions on the basis of their appearance. With Atticus’ unexpected acts of braveness, Boo Radley’s surprising changes in character, and Mrs. Dubose’s true intentions for her seemingly mean behavior with Scout, Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, conveys the theme of the novel as things are not always as they seem.

What happens in Boo Radleys home? The man no one ever sees Does he eats cats and squirrels Like the neighbors say? Or give children gifts-- In a knot of a tree?

It was the summer when Dill first came along that forever changed me. If he hadn't dared me to touch the Radley house that day, I don’t know if I’d still be alive today. I changed a lot since that summer, I look at many things differently now. I did many things that I learned from such as, “playing” Boo Radley, getting my pants stuck in a wire, and reading to Mrs. Dubose just to name a few. In addition to this, I also experienced many different things in Maycomb County that have also impacted my life and point of view on things such as, watching Atticus shoot Tim Johnson, the Tom Robinson court case, and the encounter with Mr. Bob Ewell. It was events like these that I will never forget.

Arthur Boo Radley was brought into the story as a recluse who has never been seen stepping foot outside of his own house. He is more than often known as “Boo” although his actual name is Arthur. Boo is Scout’s mysterious neighbour who keeps to himself, he never interacts with anyone nor bothers them. Due to given circumstances, he is the target of cruel gossip. All of the town of Maycomb have labeled him as a uncontrollable maniac.

Dill, Jem, and Scout have a huge desire to meet and learn more about Boo Radley, his real name is Arthur Radley as we learn from Miss Maudie Atkinson. Boo is a boy with many mysteries and untold secrets, rumors about him haunt the kids and the neighborhood. Not much is know about him since he hasn’t left his house in centuries. But one thing is for sure, Dill, Jem, and Scout will do anything to find out what’s hiding behind the doors of Mr.Radley’s house.

To kill a mockingbird is a classic novel that touches on many world issues today liked racism.Arthur radley is my most like character in the classic by harper lee, because he is the most mysterious, kind and caring person in this book.

Boo Radley, the mysterious individual in To Kill a Mockingbird, is a very unusual character. I have decided to choose a very unusual individual in my life as well. I have chosen my mother. Many would think that a mother is a typical choice, but this is very untrue for me. I have known my mother all my life, but there are many things that I still have not yet discovered about her. We are very different people with our habits and our ways of thinking, so this project allows me to see the world through her eyes. Both in how she has grown up and lived her life has caused her to be a strong, wise, and independent individual, in which ways contradicts with myself. I am able to be with her throughout the day in my everyday life, yet I plan to notice