Scout's Narration

Living in the sleepy town of Macomb, Alabama, Scout Finch and her brother Jem Finch go on different adventures with their foreign comrade Dill. In doing so, they discover Arthur Radley also known as Boo an old man who has never ventured out past his doorstep. There father, Atticus, a peaceful and quiet lawyer and their black maid Calpurnia teach them import lesson about racial equality. During the fall Dill returns home and Scout goes to school. She detests it, for she is very smart and too advanced for the class. During school Jem and scout find a hole in a tree filled with gum. They take the gum, but little do they know that Arthur Radley had placed it there for them to enjoy. Later in that year they spy on boo only to discover that he wanted to be left alone.

I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time... it’s because he wants to stay inside.'' This is the first step Jem and Scout take to understand Boo, as Jem realizes that, with all the hate going around in Maycomb, maybe Boo just wants to stay inside, away from society. From now on, the kids become less preoccupied with Boo as their, and the reader’s, perception of him changes. While Boo is still an other, he is no longer a monster and is now more of a mockingbird, an innocent neighbor trying to stay inside, away from the hate Jem and Scout are currently experiencing in

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

Scout like most young girls, is very observant about the world around her. Scout tends to show an observant side to her personality when people started to talk trash and spread rumors about Boo Radley. Being a young girl at that time she followed along with the rumors and stories she had heard. Scout, Jem, and Dill then decided to make a game out of the Radle’s ever so

Burris Ewell, however, "was the filthiest human being [Scout] had ever seen". He "laughed rudely" and "slouched leisurely" away from the classroom. This apathetic, lackadaisical and disrespectful attitude is typical of the Ewell family, and contrasts with Walter's strong sense of dignity, showing the vast difference between them.

Scout(Jean Louise) is an adventurous young girl who narrates the story To Kill A Mockingbird. She stands as an unreliable narrator because of her actions while eating dinner with a past friend. Mr. Caroline offered Wallter a penny for lunch but he refused to take it. In response to other students telling Scout to talk, she stepped in and tried to explain why the Cunninghams don’t borrow from others. The planned backfired as Ms. Caroline thought it was an insult to the Cunninghams. Scout showcased being an unreliable narrator when she had a conversation with Calpurnia, “‘He ain’t company, Cal he’s just a cunningham.’ ‘Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’

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

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.

Due to the fact that both Jem and Scout are young, innocent characters, they have no other thoughts other than to assume that the terrifying stories of Boo Radley are true, and so from that they derive the games to make Boo Radley emerge from his house, all the while Boo is actually watching the children’s antics from within his sanctuary. This all explains how the symbolism of Boo Radley portraying idle gossip conveys the interesting idea of prejudice, as people, including Jem and Scout, make pre-judgements of a person, in this case Boo Radley, based solely on the stories and mistruths that are weaved by people within a community, and how those stories get exaggerated the longer they go on for.

Throughout this journal, Burris Ewell can be characterized as unsanitary and rude. Firstly, Burris can be characterized as unsanitary. In the third chapter of the story, Burris Ewell and the Ewell family is introduced to the audience, and Scout describes Burris in this brief section of the text. “He was the filthiest human I had ever seen. His neck was dark gray, the backs of his hands were rusty, and his fingernails were black deep into the quick” (Lee 35). Although Scout is young when she first sees Burris Ewell and she may have over exaggerated on her description of his appearance, judging by the way that Scout’s teacher reacted when she say him, it is fairly obvious that the boy is very dirty. More evidence to further prove that Burris is not sanitary is how the teacher attempted to get Burris to clean off some of his filth.

“Instead that Boo not be charged with anything he was not a criminal” on the contrary he was a hero he's he's safe to innocent children from being massacred by a drunk hatred drawn man. Boo a rumor cat killer not by a man but by Society itself. “When Mr. Radley went under Boo would come out with older brother returned from Pensacola and took Mr. Radley's crepe place” as a keeper of the scary psycho killer named Boo Radley (so they say). Trapped by Society “why do you reckon Boo Radley never run off” and tried to get help. A caring man that became a shut in because of a childhood mistake left only as a rumor in the town of Maycomb. People dread lonely lives but “Boo Radley who had not been out of the house in 25 years” is the Loneliest but most respectable man I have ever

So lies and accusations got more than one person killed in that town all because of rumors. One of the rumors that was spread around a small town was a rumor about a man named Boo Radley. The rumors went something like “Mrs. Radley came running out of her house screaming help Mr. Radley went in to see what was happening and Boo was sitting on the couch cutting paper and when his father walked over to him Boo cut him with scissors and then just kept on cutting”. That was just one rumor about him and the other ones don’t exactly make him sound so good either.

One night Scout, Jem, and Dill all began to be slightly inquisitive about their neighbor Boo Radley. He was known as a scary man who “was about six and a half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch”. (14) He was also portrayed as a man with “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. ”(14)

You are better off staying away from Jem and Scout; they will bring you nothing but trouble. I mean, look what they do! They torment you with stupid notes, act like you and even try to come into our collard patch to sneak up on us! Remember the night when I scared those children away with my shotgun? You didn¡¯t do anything for them again, did you? They talk about you like a monster, and even think about you like a ghost more than human. I know they are just children, but they will be a grown-up one day. Wait and see. They will change.