How Does Boo Radley Change In To Kill A Mockingbird

Have you ever judged someone before you've met them, and then once you have met them you wonder if your judgments were correct? This is just what happens to Boo Radley in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird .I think that it is hard to determine whether Boo Radley changed or remained the same in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird because we do not see much of him throughout the story, but we do know that he changes in his amount of public appearances and his behavior but his personality may not change based on Miss Maudie's record. At the beginning of the story, Boo Radley would never come out of the house under any circumstances and the children had never once seen him leave the house, but by the end of the book he came out enough to save

Boo Radley is just a quiet guy, who wants peace and quiet because he just to be left alone and in the book Scout, Jem and Dill try to make Boo come out with a fishing pole with a note at the end. Boo does nothing to harm anybody just like a mockingbird, mockingbirds just make music for people to enjoy and they don’t eat people’s gardens and Boo is just quiet and enjoys being inside away from the world outside. Boo just helps people out when they need it like when Jem and Scout went to his house they had to escape so they decided to go under the fence and Jem had got stuck and his pants had ripped and then Jem went backed his pants and they were sewed up like someone was knowing he was coming back.

With a description like that, Scout thought that Boo Radley was the scariest man alive. Scout didn’t know any better at the time than to believe whatever she heard about him from others. When Scout finds gum in the knothole of the oak tree near the Radley house, she starts to think that maybe Boo isn’t so bad. When he saves Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell, they realize that Boo actually cares about them and wants to keep them safe. Scout and Jem always believed Boo to be evil, when he is actually a good-hearted human being. At the close of the novel, Scout talks about Boo to Atticus, saying that “he was real nice” (323). Scout learns that people are not always what they seem to be at first, and there is always something good underneath every harsh surface.

He was often referred to by Scout as “Boo” Radley. The name shows that he is shadowy character. Boo was a victim of human malevolence. Ever since he was a child, he had been wrongly confined in his home by his father after stabbing his father in the leg with a pair of scissors. He was misunderstood and seen as a monster by the community. In the beginning he is a victim of false rumors. Jem and Scout saw him as a person that murdered children. On the contrary Boo Radley left presents for Jem and Scout as tokens of friendship. Boo is a mockingbird because he is innocent and cares for Jem and

Boo’s bravery and kindness were hidden from the public eye since he was a recluse. Despite being misunderstood, he was kind to the children by giving them gifts and asking nothing in return. Those who are selfless and kind make the world a better place, yet from the very beginning of the novel, Boo Radley was described as a mysterious and frightening individual. ”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 blood stained- if you ate any animal

Many of the Finch’s neighbors in Maycomb had stories, or more accurately, rumors, about Boo that characterized him as a rabid monster in human form. As the story progressed, these bits of information that Scout and Jem thought they understood about Boo became increasingly implausible. Jem’s first experience with this was when Boo had folded, sewn, and placed his pants on top of the fence in his backyard where they had been snagged a few days prior; Scout’s was when Boo stealthily placed a blanket on her cold shoulders the night when Mrs. Maudie's house burned down. The final revelation of his pure nature was when Scout, “...finally saw him” at the end of the novel and realized, “...he hadn’t done any of those things…he was real nice” (Lee chapter 31). Boo in fact, was as innocent as a

At the beginning of the novel, Jem and Scout do not understand the perspective of a character named Boo. There is a family in the community named the Radleys. According to neighborhood legend Boo Radley at the time a teenager was to be sent off to a school as punishment for a petty crime. His father requested for the punishment to be waved in return Boo would never do such a thing again. It has been fifteen years and Boo has been seen by only a few people in the town. Boo’s father has passed on and yet Boo never leaves his house. The children of the neighborhood speculate that he is some sort of demon that kills small animals for food. Jem and Scout speculate why Boo

Arthur “Boo” Radley was from a recluse family in Maycomb County called the Radleys. At the beginning of the book (page 10), he was described as a “malevolent phantom”. For every little thing that went wrong in the town, Boo was thought to be the culprit. As time went on, however, Boo began to show his true colors. On the last page of the book, Scout described him as nice.(376)

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Boo Radley as a symbol of the intolerant way the townspeople react to the unknown. Rumors are constantly spread by the citizens of Maycomb, saying how, in addition to his supposedly barbaric nature, Boo has violent tendencies and is quite hideous. Provided that nobody knows much about him, that makes it even easier to pass around these rumors. In the beginning of the book, Jem uses some of these rumors while describing Boo. Although he knows nothing about him, he gives him these horrid, animalistic qualities that are just a tad unrealistic. He says, “Boo … dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch ... There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow

During his childhood years, Jem sees Boo as an evil creepy monster. For example, the house even has a bad name due to Boo radley “Inside the [Radley] house lived a malevolent phantom.” (9) The whole town knows about this hose and it isn't necessarily in a good way, and they didn't want anything to do with him.Jem thinks he is an evil man because of all the rumors and legends about him. In addition, when Jem is explaining to Dill how Boo would look like he is showing his immaturity “thats why his hands were bloodstained.” (9) They both think that Boo dines on raw squirrels and cats that he catches himself. Since they

Boo Radley’s actions helped Scout and Jem realize you should walk in someone else's shoes before judging them. Jem, Dill and Scout were outside one summer day when Jem wanted to play a new game, which it’s characters were based off of the Radley family: “ Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and shrieked and howled from time to time” (Lee 52). The kids were mocking Boo Radley on the gossip they had heard, thinking it was true. They had believed most of the gossip they heard about him and didn’t take the time to find out who Boo really was. Soon after, Boo saves Jem and Scout and gets invited into their house that night, they get to see him and realize he is just a quite individual but would never hurt Jem and Scout: “His

After witnessing the true evils of society (The Ewell’s, racist institutions, Tom Robinson trial trial, etc.), Scout and Jem view Boo as merely an ordinary person. Who once was considered a nightmare, was outweighed by society’s atrocities, bringing light upon the children’s perception of him. '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” (Pg. 16). This quote, prior to the trial, was a rather bizarre description of Boo Radley, and demonstrates the infantile thoughts of these innocent children. The children believed that Boo was a malevolent phantom, when in reality, he was simply an introvert, avoiding the harsh realities of the

Boo’s father doesn’t press charges, and doesn’t want Boo to go to an asylum. So the judge and Mr. Radley reach an agreement that Boo will behave, but Mr. Radley locks Boo up in the house and doesn’t let him leave.(Page 7) Another misconception is the description Jem makes of Boo when talking with Dill and Scout. Jem says, “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 get 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.” (Page 9) The real Boo Radley is thoughtful and throughout the summer this is proven. One incident is when Jem, Scout, and Dill reenact Boo’s life from the stories they have heard. But when school starts back up, and Dill goes back to his home, the Finch children begin finding little gifts in the tree in front of the Radley house. The gifts started out as gum, and twine. Then, the Finch children found a boy

Leslie Miller Archie 5th Period Mrs. McCord 1.  How do Scout, Jem, and Dill characterize Boo Radley at the beginning of the book? In what way did Boo's history of violence foreshadow his method of protecting Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell? Does this repetition of aggression make him more or less of a sympathetic character? 

 Scout and Jem imagine that Boo is over six feet tall and insanely ugly, a monster who strangles cats with his bare hands and then eats them.

Boo Radley is a very reclusive character, and not much is known about him until the end of the book. In the beginning he is described as a horrible monstrosity, as Jem said, “About six and a half feet tall, dined on raw