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

Boo Radley is a mysterious and suspicious character, where throughout the beginning and middle of the book, Scout, Jem, and Dill have a preconception of him being a mean, old man. At the ending of the book, when Boo saves the children from Mr. Ewell, Scout sees how she prejudiced him based on other people’s beliefs. Boo is one of the most misunderstood characters of the book, starting out as a fantasy and a monster, but then he turns out to be very thoughtful, brave, and kind.

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.

In the novel, a mockingbird symbolizes a person that is not seen as threatening, and therefore can be called innocent. Throughout the novel, Boo Radley has proven that he is one of the “mockingbirds.” Society has shot him down by spreading rumors and making him the scariest person in the neighborhood. However, Maycomb County has not understood that he wants to be left alone. He sings by laughing at Jem and Scout and giving them gifts in the knothole of the tree; both of them unknowingly cheer Boo up when he watches them from his window.

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

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’.

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

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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 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

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

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,

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.

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