How Did Boo Radley's Influence In To Kill A Mockingbird

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.

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

Boo Radley is a representation of the mockingbird because of his innocence and acts of kindness. While Miss Maudie's house was burning down, Boo Radley secretly wrapped a blanket around Scout. " 'Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn't know it when he put the blanket around you' " (Lee 60). Scout realizes that Boo Radley is a kind man who wants to protect and take care of her. The residents of Maycomb County know very little about him, but still spread rumors and view

Throughout the book To Kill a Mockingbird Boo Radley takes on the characteristics of being shy, mysterious, and protective. Boo Radley leads the readers to think that he is shy when Scout says “It was deep in shadow. Boo would be comfortable in the dark.” (Lee 364). This shows that Boo is uncomfortable around people. He is mysterious when the author tells us about the event “As Mr. Radley passed by,

A symbol is when an object, person, or a situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning. The major symbol in To Kill a Mockingbird is the mockingbird. The mockingbird symbolizes innocence. The symbol relates to several characters in the book. It relates to Tom Robinson because he was only trying to help Mayella, but was accused of rape and put on trial for it. It also relates to Atticus because he was harassed for doing what was right and defending a black man. Another character that relates to the mockingbird is Boo Radley. Boo is an innocent man who was wrongly kept in the house by his father after a childish prank.

The pages of Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird are filled with many lessons. Throughout the book we follow “Scout” Finch as she navigates young life and learns from the people around her. One of these people is Arthur “Boo” Radley: a man known only through the stories told by his neighbourhood as he never leaves his home. Scout’s view of Boo changes drastically though out the novel as her understanding of him develops. Originally, Scouts view was skewed by the untrue stories she was told. But when she finally meets Boo and sees that he is not the person the stories describe, she learns some important lessons about judgement.

To start, Boo Radley is one character in the book To Kill a Mockingbird that represents the mockingbird theme. First of all, throughout the book, Boo has been helpful to Jem and Scout. When Mr. Ewell attacked Jem and Scout, it was Boo who came to their rescue and murdered Mr. Ewell (Lee 362). For this reason, Boo can be considered a mockingbird because mockingbirds are innocent and do nothing but help people. Even though the rumors about Boo told otherwise, Boo had never done anything to hurt his neighbors, suggesting that he watches over them, which is equivalent to singing his own silent mockingbird song. The children had never been nice to him in the past (mocked him with games, invaded his privacy), but he still chose to help them. Also,

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.

In To Kill A Mockingbird, aside from Boo Radley and Tom Robinson, Atticus best symbolizes a mockingbird. First, after the Tom Robinson case when everyone brought food to Atticus, Calpurnia explained, “They ‘preciate what you did, Mr. Finch” (Lee 286). When Atticus stood up for Tom he unwittingly brought joy to lots of people. Mockingbirds spread joy through their singing and Atticus created joy through his job as a lawyer defending those who needed it. Second, immediately following the shooting of Tim Johnson, Scout inquires about why Atticus stopped shooting to Miss Maudie who replies, “I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things” (Lee 130). Mockingbirds never cause

To start Boo Radley is a kind person, he cares about everyone. This can be seen throughout the book in a series of events, like when Boo put a blanket on Scout’s shoulder

I am rewriting chapter seven from Boo Radley’s point of view. This chapter is written from Scout’s point of view.

To Kill a Mockingbird was written and published in 1960, “in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement” (Carolyn Jones). This time was just a few years after events like the murder of Emmett Till, a fourteen year old boy accused of whistling at a white woman, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the ruling in Alabama that segregation on buses is unconstitutional happened (PBS African American World). This goes to show that the time period had some effect on Harper Lee at the time.

To Kill A Mockingbird is a 1900s novel that was based on the 1930s written by Harper Lee. Harper Lee’s comment on life in the South during the 1930’s through her novel To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper wasn’t just going to sit around and not say anything about the things that were happening around her such as; the Scottsboro case , roles of women, and segregation.

Why is To Kill a Mockingbird relevant? To Kill a Mockingbird is still relevant because today we blindly ignore racial inequalities, sexism, social inequalities, and also we learn and taught moral education. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird takes place of in 1930s and uses a perspective of a young girl to show various different kinds of stereotypes and various conflicts we still experience that are all still relevant today.

At the beginning of the novel, Scout is discussing the infamous Radley house, “Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. People said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him”(10). Many citizens of Maycomb think of Boo Radley as a dark soul who has no care for anyone in the town, although, they are completely wrong. When Scout walked Mr. Radley home, she turned around on his porch and realized she “had never seen our neighborhood from this angle” (373). Boo can see the whole prejudice and old town from his house which is how he is able to look out for Jem and Scout, as well as keep up with what