How Is Arthur Radley Good

I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This book is about a girl named Scout Finch, who lives with her brother, Jem, and father, Atticus, during the Great Depression. They live in a small town called Maycomb, Alabama, where everybody knows all of the people who live in their town. The Radley’s are a strange family, which no one knows much about, but speculates quite a bit about. They have a trial for Tom Robison because Mr. Ewell says that Tom Robison raped his daughter Mayella Ewell and Tom is convicted. In this paper I will be evaluating and questioning.

people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions” (p. 9) Maycomb’s prejudice towards Mr Arthur Radley was cruel and unfounded; Boo was a mockingbird, who never hurt the world, but through people’s early judgment, they hurt him. Boo Radley proved to be one of the heros of the novel, which supported Atticus’s view that ideas formed before hand are groundless, and prejudice is wrong.

Set in the town of Maycomb County, this novel describes the journey of two young kids growing up in a small-minded town, learning about the importance of innocence and the judgement that occurs within. The individuals of Maycomb are very similar, with the exception of Arthur “Boo” Radley, the town’s recluse. Boo Radley has never been seen outside, and as a result of this, the children in the town are frightened of him and make up rumors about the monstrous things he allegedly does. This leaves the individuals in the town curious as to if Boo Radley really is a “malevolent phantom” like everyone assumes that he is or if he is just misunderstood and harmless. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Boo Radley is a saviour. This is

Boo Radley is a ‘malevolent phantom’ and a character that has been shaped by gossips and sustained by children’s imaginations. “Stephanie Crawford, a neighbourhood scold… said she woke up in the middle of the night and saw him looking straight through the window at her.” This dialogue is an example of the gossips and how the legend of Boo Radley developed, lies that persecute his innocence. Setting is used to develop Boo’s surroundings and to summon an eerie atmosphere giving Maycomb reason enough to reject and victimise him for being different. “…rain rotten shingles drooped… oak trees kept the sun away and the remains of a picket fence drunkenly guarded the front yard.” The Radley house has been established as a neglected, out of place and isolated home through Harper Lee’s use of connotative words. This evokes within the reader the same view of Boo as the rest of the town and allows us to understand where the misunderstanding comes from before we

Harper Lee’s novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” is set in a small, southern town, Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The story is told through the eyes of a girl named Scout about her father, Atticus, an attorney who strives to prove the innocence of a black man named Tom Robinson, who was accused of rape and Boo Radley, an enigmatic neighbor who saves Scout and her brother Jem from being killed. Atticus does his job in proving there was no way that Tom Robinson was guilty during his trial, but despite Tom Robinson’s obvious innocence, he is convicted of rape as it is his word against a white woman’s. Believing a “black man’s word” seemed absurd as segregation was a very integrated part of life in the south. The social hierarchy must be maintained at all costs and if something in the system should testify the innocence of a black man against a white woman’s word and win then what might happen next? Along with the prejudice amongst blacks and whites, the story also showed how people could be misunderstood for who they truly are such as Boo Radley. Without ever seeing Boo, Jem and the townsfolk made wild assumptions on what Boo does or looks like. Even so, while “To Kill a Mockingbird” shows the ugliness that can come from judging others, its ultimate message is that great good can result when one defers judgement until considering things from another person’s view. Walter Cunningham, Mrs. Dubose, and Boo Radley are all examples of how looking at things

2. Arthur Radley, or “Boo Radley”, the son of Mr. Radley is a distant, lonely, isolated man who isn’t ever seen by people outside his house. People in Maycomb perceive him as an awful person, with a terrifying appearance who fills them with aghast.

2. Arthur Radley, or “Boo Radley”, the son of Mr. Radley is a distant, lonely, isolated man who isn’t ever seen by people outside his house. People in Maycomb perceive him as an awful person, with a terrifying appearance who fills them with aghast.

Backtracking years, even decades, one will find the origin of Boo Radley’s knack for violence. It started when he was just a teenager. Fitting in with the wrong crowd, he befriended the Cunninghams. The closest thing to a gang Maycomb ever had, they went around causing, not too much mayhem at first, but soon became more and more violent. The first serious offense they committed was locking poor old Mr. Conner, Maycomb’s beadle, in the courthouse outhouse after they resisted arrest. Now one might be thinking, Oh, that was a long time ago. Boo’s changed. Well, he hasn’t. He’s only become worse since then. Not even thirteen years ago, the town saw Boo for the first time in fifteen years, when he drove a pair of scissors into his father’s leg. Every single person in the town knows the truth; Boo Radley is lethal. This is proof that he has kept his violent nature over the years, perhaps practicing for when a racist pig of a man attacks two children. That is, two children he has been stalking.

In part one of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, the reader is introduced to Scout, the narrator of the book, her family and other members of the community in which she lives. Scout and her older brother Jem are the children of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in Maycomb County, Alabama during the Great Depression. Scout and Jem meet Dill, a boy spending the summer with his Aunt Rachel. He is between Scout and Jem’s age and becomes a great friend and playmate. He, like Scout and Jem are enjoying the freedom of no school, using their imagination inventing, and playing games throughout the summer. Next door to Scout and Jem, lives a very curious individual whom they have never seen but heard rumors about. This individual has been kept isolated by his father because of some innocent pranks he was involved in over fifteen years ago. Arthur “Boo” Radley is a young man rumored to be root of all evil in the small town of Maycomb. Curiosity is a theme repeated throughout part one as the Scout, Jem, and Dill desire to know or learn more about life and Boo Radley.

Locked in a dark house, never leaving, lives a man known as Boo Radley. In a small town in Alabama known as Maycomb, the narrator of “To Kill A Mockingbird” a young girl named Scout, her brother Jem, and best friend Dill’s, worlds’ revolved around the mysterious Radley house. Atticus, Jem and Scout’s father was bothered by their obsession with the character Boo Radley. Finally they did leave him alone when their world turned around when Atticus took a court case defending Tom Robinson, who was being tried for the rape of Mayella Ewell. Being a black man, Tom was bound to be found guilty, no matter the evidence. Atticus having good morals took it knowing he’d lose, because he knew he wouldn’t be able to live with himself without even defending

1. “…He was about six-and-a-half feet tall with hands that were permanently bloodstained… and a long jagged scar ran across his face… What teeth he had were yellow and rotten and his eyes bulged out of their sockets! (Pause). That was the initial gruesome description we were given for the harmless Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley, but did any of those horrific features actually appear reasonable to you? (Pause) I didn’t think so! When a mature reader reads this extract from the novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, they would immediately recognise that the description of ‘Boo’ is only a result of Jem Finch’s overactive imagination.

In “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Atticus relates to the main quote by showing his children how they could never understand Mrs. Dubose until they experience her struggles. Atticus explains to Jem and Scout Mrs. Dubose’s situation. To Jem and Scout, Mrs. Dubose is a mean, old cranky lady who doesn’t respect anyone. To Atticus, Mrs. Dubose is a fighter. When Mrs. Dubose insulted Atticus, Jem finally snapped and cut her camellia bushes.

When I look back on my experience in Maycomb County, I remember the kinds of things people thought of others, just ‘cause they were different, or just ‘cause they didn’t take part in normal things. Arthur “Boo” Radley definitely was one of those people who was judged harshly by “normal” folk. People believed that he was a “malevolent phantom”(8) who committed crimes and “peeped in windows”(9). Even after the real culprit of the crimes was revealed, everyone was “unwilling to discard their initial suspicions”(9). Jem and I also believed it ourselves, completely oblivious to the fact that the town folks’ gossip was nothing but lies. But we realized soon enough that we had only scratched the surface of this one man’s story. One night, Jem and

People, forgetting to put themselves in the positions of others, often judge blindly. Several times, Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird demonstrates unfair judgment in court and in the daily lives of the folks in Maycomb County. One of the obvious victims of unfair judgment from other people is Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley. Due to the fact that Boo Radley barely comes out of his family’s cold house, people assume the worst about him. They spread false stories of how he devours raw meat of any cat or squirrel he could find, and some even say that he once bit his mother’s fingers off when he could not find any more cats or squirrels to eat! (Lee, Ch. 4) However, even when rumors about him circulated Maycomb, Boo Radley displays his kind and heroic streak towards Jem and Scout. Not only does Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley posses kindness and courage, but enigma as well.

Imagine being locked up in a house for many of years only having time to think. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird written by Harper Lee Boo Radley is a guy who has been locked up in his house all of his life. No one has seen him or talked to him. All everyone has ever heard about him were rumors that were bad, but there was no proof towards them. In this book two kids named Jem and Scout Finch are interested in their neighbor Boo Radley who lives down the street in a very old house.