Boo Radley's Point Of View Essay

From the beginning of the story, Scout, Jem, and Dill wanted to what was inside the Radley’s house, and see who was Boo. Later on, they have a idea to lure Boo out with a note. Taking in their courage they try to go pass the Radley gates;s again. But are stopped by Atticus and tells them “What Mr. Radley did was his own business, If he wants to come out, he would.”(ch5; 54).Warning them to stop bothering Boo Radley, Atticus stop them from disrupting

In the book, Scout and Jem are inadvertently deceived about Boo Radley. Boo is a shut-in whose reclusive lifestyle is viciously commented on by the residents of Maycomb. The gossip spurs Scout’s and Jem’s fascination with Boo Radley and drives them to incorporate Boo into their games and activities.

These factors reflect their perceptions of the social norm. Boo behaviours as a hermit sparks their imagination to create an image of Boo. “...Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from 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 along 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...”(TKAM, 18). This image of Boo led the children to be extremely curious and eager to see him for themselves. “‘...Let’s try to make him come out,’ said Dill. ‘I’d like to see what he looks like...’” (13) “...Dill and Jem were simply going to peek in the window with the loose shutter to see if they could get a look at Boo Radley...”.() “Dill had hit upon a foolproof plan to make Boo Radley come out at no cost to ourselves (place a trail of lemon drops from the back door to the front yard and he’d follow it, like an ant).”(144). At one point they attempt to contact Boo with a note put through an open window with a fishing pole. Atticus, the father of Jem and Scout, catch them and he teaches them a lesson of respecting privacy as well as treating everyone in an equal and humane manner. “What Mr. Radley did was his own business. If he wanted to come out, he would. If he wanted to

Scout, Jem, and Dill work many summers to try to get Boo to come out of the Radley house for the first time in many years. Jem had been told many things about Boo in his short years in Maycomb, and he tells his sister Scout about the ‘monster’, saying, “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from 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” (chap. 1). Jem’s ideas about Boo are very biased toward rumors that can be heard around Maycomb. This shows how Maycomb’s people often judge before they know, seeing as no one has seen Boo Radley in over twenty years and people are prejudiced to believing the unknown is always bad. Prejudice and rumors can often not be trusted and Boo Radley is no exception. After Miss Maudie’s house catches fire and half the town rushes outside to watch it burn, Atticus tells Scout, “someday you should thank him for covering you up” then Scout asks, “Thank Who?” And gets a response from Atticus, “Boo Radley. You were too busy looking at the fire, you didn’t even notice when he put the blanket around you” (chap. 8). Boo Radley is not really a bad person, he

Boo Radley developed with his Almost unnoticeable interaction with Scout at the end of Chapter 8. Scout is watching Miss Maudie's house on fire and when atticus comes back he notices something. Scout is wrapped in a blanket that she didn't have when she left the house.Scout says that she stayed right where he told her to, in front of the Radley Place, but she and Jem saw Mr. Nathan fighting the fire. They Come to the conclusion that it must have been Boo who had put it on her. This would step up the interaction that boo had previously had with the children and now. This also contributes to the Children's Mystery regarding Boo Radley

He is referred to as a mockingbird because he suffers he is stuck and constantly talked negatively by the town.It's the only form of contact he has with the outside world. Boo (Arthur Radley) is actually a very shy character who is often misjudged by society including scout and jem. As the story goes on, we find Scout beginning to realize Boo radelys true intentions and the situation when she tells Atticus that exposing Boo would be "sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?” Throughout the novel, Scout, Jem, and Dill are curious about the "mysterious" Boo Radley because he never comes outside from his house or associates with anyone in the neighborhood.

Boo Radley never harmed anyone, but was judged by the rumors spreading across the community. Although he was not actually introduced until the end of the novel, Boo Radley is set up to be the last discovered symbolic character for the image of the mockingbird. During the last chapter of the novel, Scout comes to the realization that blaming Boo for Bob Ewell's death would be "sort of like shooting' a mockingbird." (chapter 30). Getting Boo sent to jail or killed would be like killing a mockingbird. Boo is truly a good person. He left gifts for Jem and Scout in the trunk of a tree, he wrapped a blanket around them when Miss Maudie's house caught on fire, and he saved them from Bob Ewell when he tried to murder them. Boo Radley is a victim of Maycomb's social prejudice and a perfect representation of Harper Lee's description of the mockingbird.

Boo Radley had impacted Scouts learning and development throughout the story. This is because Boo Radley was once the scary man living in a haunted house to the man who had saved Scout’s life by Bob Ewell.Jem and Scout had gone through a traumatizing experience after sneaking around at the Radley place. when they try to get a glimpse at Boo, a man began to chase them with the shotgun. “ Jem leaped off the porch and galloped toward us. He flung open the gate, danced Dill and me through, and shoed us between two rows of swishing collards. Halfway through the collards I tripped, as I tripped the roar of a shotgun shattered the neighborhood” (Lee 53). Scout has just had conflict with someone at the Radley place. after this experience, she begins to make better decisions rather than acting childish. Later on in the text, she found out that food was never the antagonist. she had been saved by him and finally saw what he looks like. Scout begins to describe Boo . “ I looked from his hands to sand stained khaki pants; my eyes traveled up his thin frame to his torn denim shirt. His face was white as his hands, but for a shadow on his jutting chin. His cheeks were thin to hollowness; his temples, and his gray eyes were so colorless I thought he was blind” (Lee 270).She finally sees Boo after

Boo Radley was the reclusive man who never setted foot outside his house. He is a powerful symbol of goodness. In the Halloween night when Jem and Scout returned from school, Boo Radley saved them from Bob Ewell who tried to kill them by the knife because of the hatred with Atticus Finch. Then he carried unconscious Jem home to the safety of the Finch house. Boo watched Jem and Scout day by day and gave them soft of gifts in a tree outside the Radley place. There was a lot of imagination with rumors about his appearance but he was scare to appear to save Jem and Scout. "First of all," Atticus said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things form his point of view until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." Jem and Scout learned some of things from Boo that they could not judge people without knowing them. Boo Radley was one of the novel’s “mockingbirds,” a good person injured by the evil of

Bob Ewell tries to stab Scout and breaks Jem’s arm, but Boo Radley arrives just in time to stab Ewell with his own knife and kill him. Heck Tate thinks that hushing up the incident would be the best decision for Boo Radley, and Scout finally understands Atticus’s advice about not shooting a mockingbird. Boo was only trying to protect the Finches, and forcing him out into the open would be harmful to him. Here, Boo Radley is a symbolic mockingbird. She explains to Atticus, “Well, it’d be sort of like shootin‘ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”(370). Scout has finally understood Atticus’s advice about not harming the innocent and vulnerable, and Boo Radley directly helped her to realize

“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee takes place in an old town called Maycomb where Scout’s family lives. In chapters one through seven we know that Jem, Scout, and Dill are trying to gain more information about Boo Radley, better yet meet him in person. My reasoning for the main idea based on the chapters is “don’t judge a book by it’s cover”. Many people speculate the dangerous actions Boo can commit, however, if Scout, Jem, and Dill succeed in confronting Boo, furthermore seeing the real him, then this would prove the town folks wrong.

Scout and Jem's view of Boo Radley evolve and adjust throughout chapters one to eight. The children keep receiving hints and clues in their everyday life that makes Boo Radley not a fictional character, but a real one. In the beginning of, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem says,”I’ve seen his tracks in our back yard many a mornin’, and one night I heard him scratching on the back screen, but he was gone time Atticus got there” to Dill and Scout (Lee 14). Jem’s description reveals that he has never actually seen Boo Radley before and just based this on his own imagination and stories he has heard from other townspeople. The way that he describes how Boo Radley acts is also very far fetched, which Jem most likely knows is not how a human would really

Miss Maudie and Atticus have shown Scout a whole new perspective in the world by changing her viewpoint on Boo Radley from a raw squirrel-eating ghoul to a kind person who is just misunderstood, this helps Scout be more considerate with the people around her.

I would not agree with sheriff Tate’s decision. Even though it seems like it was good to “protect” Boo Radley from the social aspect of the court case lying is still wrong. It is the sheriff's job to keep and uphold the law and truth. Bending it for the good of one person is also breaking it. If they had told the truth, Boo would be tried and found not guilty, because like Atticus said, “It is a clear cut case of self defense”.The only good lying about it would do is to keep Boo Radley out of the public eye.

We learn at the end of the book that Boo had a front row seat to the children’s lives, right from his front window. Boo was able to watch the children play, all summer long, “the day I rolled into the Radley front yard. Through all the head-shaking, quelling of nausea and Jem-yelling, I had heard another sound, so low I could not have heard it from the sidewalk. Someone inside the house was laughing”(Lee 54). Jem and Scout were were just playing their usual games, and they were taking turns pushing each other in a tire.