Character Analysis Of Boo Radley In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Scout and Jem really had a rather large fascination with Boo Radley because he was mysterious, even though it didn’t really start until Dill came to town. All they knew was that whenever something bad happened it was because of Boo Radley. "When people's azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them. Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work" It was easy to make these accusations because he was never seen and apparently had a troubled childhood.

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

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.

To Kill a Mockingbird Essay - Perspectives on Boo Radley No one in Maycomb would ever think of going anywhere near the Radley house, that is because Boo lives there. He is the most feared person in Maycomb by far. Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the character Boo Radley is depicted as someone extremely mysterious since no one has ever actually met him. He has always been ‘locked up’ in his house and never came out.

Toward of the beginning of the novel, Scout was very scared of Boo Radley. She would not dare to touch his house and was scared for Jem when Dill dared him to do so. This shows her immaturity because she believed in Maycomb County’s rumors that he was a monster. She believed that he had hurt his father, eaten squirrels for dinner, and would not mind hurting children. In Chapter 30, the reader notices a drastic change in Scout’s behavior with Boo Radley; through this, she proves her development in the novel.

Mr Radley was ashamed of his son’s behaviour when he got into the wrong crowd as a youngster and punished him by locking him up. There is a lot of gossip around Maycomb about Boo and people blame him for any bad things that happen in the neighbourhood, ‘Any stealthy crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.’ Jem turns him into a monster, ‘his hands were blood-stained’, and ‘his eyes popped’. At the end of the novel however, we find that Boo is misunderstood, and gossip of the town’s folk has made him up to be a ‘malevolent phantom’. Scout tells us he is timid, he had, ‘the voice of a child afraid of the dark’.

Boo Radley is considered one of the minor characters that stands by the theme of the novel. To explain the mysterious character Scout says,“ inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but jem and I had never seen him... Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people’s chickens and household pets were found mutilated: although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually downed himself in Barker’s Eddy, people still looked at the radley place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions”(Lee pg). In the town of Maycomb people are quick to judge and fast to make rumors, Boo was described as psycho and typical recluse. The Scout finally gets to see his true nature in the very last chapter when she finally meets Boo, she stands on his porch reflecting on all of the events

Everyone believes they need to stay away from Boo Radley because of the stories that have been told about his father and at the end of the book Scout and Jem are walking home from a play and Jem is hearing footsteps behind him, then they had got attacked by Bob Ewell and knocked Jem unconscious, then Boo had picked up Jem and carried him home and Scout was trying to figure out who was carrying Jem back home, she looked behind the door and she said “Hi Boo”. Boo had helped Atticus by taking good care of his children and that is when Scout got to meet Boo.

Jem and Scout only saw Boo as an innocent and giving person. Boo Radley was not the malevolent phantom that most described him to be. Despite realizing that Boo was such a good person later on, at the beginning of the book Jem and Scout disturbed him quite often. They tried to give him a note through his window telling him to come out and asking what he does inside his house. There was also the time when the kids tried to look in his windows at night, but were chased away by Nathan Radley, Boo’s brother.

In the beginning of the book, Boo Radley is nothing more than a mysterious town. The children were not even 100% sure if he was real. “Boo was sitting in the living-room cutting some item from the Maycomb Tribune…drove the scissors into his parents leg…ect” on page 12. Toward the middle of the novel the young children’s curiosity begins to form. This is shown in the quote “Jem was merely going to put the note on the end of a fishing pole and stick it through the shutters” also in chapter 1. At the end, the once “savage monster” is perceived as kind of friendly neighbor. Boo leaves presents for the kid

First of all, Boo Radley is one of the good characters in this novel, but he is considered an evil character. For example Jem described him as, “Boo was about and half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that why his hands were bloodstained…” (Lee 13). Also, many people in Maycomb knew the story of Boo stabbing his father in the knee with scissors. He

Boo Radley represents a mockingbird slain by society 's prejudice towards those who don 't conform. Boo is a thoughtful, vulnerable man who is ridiculed by his neighbours. Scout describes Boo as a harmless, shy character, similar to the vulnerability of the mockingbird. His idle neighbours ridiculed and alienated him as he was a recluse who failed to meet the town 's standards. The neighbourhood did not bother to reach out to him as they were intolerant to his differences. Gossips were made about him and he was known as a "malevolent phantom". Despite of the rejection he faced,

Boo Radley is one of the mockingbirds in this book. He is innocent but this wasn’t recognized by everyone. Scout understood

Often in novels, the most misjudged characters are the ones that end up setting the tone for the story’s theme or deeper message. Boo Radley’s character in To Kill A Mockingbird helps establish one of the central themes about innocence and good will, which is partially summed up when Harper Lee writes, “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”(119). Atticus Finch’s advice to his children metaphorically applies to several of the book’s characters, but it especially relates to Boo. The characters in the book are quite different when it comes to their personalities, which is one reason that the plot is so interesting. Boo Radley, plays a large role in the story even though he does not even say anything throughout the whole book. During the novel, Boo Radley presents himself as a generous, misunderstood, and mysterious person.

At first Boo could easily be seen as a sort of villain or insane person in the story when looking at who he is and what he does\did.Boo Radley (as described by Jem )”...six-and-a-half feet tall,judging from his tracks...There was a long jagged scar that ran on his face;what teeth he had where yellow and rotten:his eyes popped,and he drooled most of the time” (Harper Lee pg 13 citation:Lee 1960) Boo allegedly sneaks out at night when there is a full moon.During these times Boo walks around,looking into other people’s houses and supposedly even eats raw squirrels,catching them before they run away but the description of Boo is not correct and is simply imagination.When we first actually see Boo is near the end of the book (and according to