The Nut Grass Symbolizes Boo Radley

Thus, this proves that not all “background” characters are completely worthless in every story. Jem and Scout learn important lessons such as staying persistent, and to never assume anything about things or people. These minor characters are important, because their lessons allow the children to develop throughout the course of the

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.

Here, it shows that since the kids never saw Boo, he must be locked up and is not able to come outside. Another reason the kids think he is locked up is because the doors of the Radley place are always closed. The text says, “The doors of the Radley house were closed on weekdays as well as Sundays, and Mr. Radley’s boy was not seen again for fifteen years” (Lee 13). This shows, Boo is locked up because their doors were closed so no one would see that Boo was locked up, and he was not seen again. The third reason the kids think he is locked up is because he never came out of the house when Mr. Radley died. Instead, his older brother returned most likely to keep Boo locked up in the house. Boo’s older brother would not have come home if it were not for having to keep an eye on him. Next, the kids are scared. The first reason they are scared is because they say the Radley pecans that fall in the schoolyard will kill you if you eat them. The book says, “...but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecans would kill you” (Lee 11). Here, it shows that they did not even touch the nuts, because they were so scared of anything that had to do with the Radley’s. One other reason they are scared is because

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

The class was very chaotic with many unexpected events including Burris Ewell’s bugs and rude behavior, and Walter Cunningham’s absence of lunch and refusal of money. Miss Caroline did not know how to properly handle some situations because she was on edge nothing seemed to be going exactly going as planned. Not only was Scout able to step into Miss Caroline’s shoes, but later in the novel she got to see what it was like to walk around in Boo Radley’s shoes. At first Scout thinks of Arthur “Boo” Radley as a terrible, violent man who did not love or appreciate anyone. This impression of Boo was made up of almost entirely rumors. Some of these include When Boo stabbed his father’s leg with a pair of scissors at the age of 33, and how Boo would go out in the dead of night and peep into other people's windows. Other rumors comprised of people's azaleas froze when Boo breathed on them, and how the pecans that dropped from the Radley tree on to the school grounds would kill any person who touched it. Besides the rumors, there are some facts that support Scout’s perception of Arthur Radley. One of these is that Boo had gone unseen for a period of 15 years and had no other human interaction besides his

Boo Radley is portrayed as a crazy maniac due to the rumors spread about him and a trial he underwent as a teenager.(Scout) "So Jem received most of his information from Miss Stephanie Crawford, a neighborhood scold, who said she knew the whole thing. According to Miss Stephanie, Boo was sitting in the livingroom cutting some items from 'The Maycomb Tribune' to paste in his scrapbook. His father entered the room. As Mr. Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities."(pg 11)Scout and Jem look upon him with fear and suspicion from the stories that surround them from the time they were children. She gradually becomes aware that Boo is just lonely and wants

Boo was extremely misunderstood. In chapter one, we find out that the entire neighborhood is afraid of Radley and his family. Everyone has made up stories about The Radleys. According to their neighbor, Miss Stephanie Crawford, he stabbed his dad with some scissors. In multiple chapters, Scout mentions that people have said that Boo eats wild animals. In chapter four, they mention that he bit off his mother’s fingers because he could not find any cats or squirrels to eat. Due to these stories about Boo, people wanted to kill him. Boo also never left his house. Scout’s brother Jem thought that Boo never left his house because his dad had him chained to the bed. While talking about misunderstanding people, Atticus hints at Boo and Walter Ewell. He tells her,

In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee there are two important characters revealed to us throughout the text. These characters are are Boo Radley and Atticus Finch. These important characters are revealed to us through dialogue, actions and choices and finally through what others say about them. Atticus is a courageous and unprejudiced man with good values and morals. Boo Radley is misunderstood and with one selfless act the opinions from from the community are rapidly changed.

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

The presents that Jem and Scout find in the knothole of a tree are from Boo - gum, pennies, and soap bar sculptures. This is a positive form of communication of giving presents between the children and Boo, and it shows that he is not as violent as what everyone believes. From this, it is implied that Boo Radley's impression is created only by rumours because he was never seen like the concept of a ghost. He suffers from those, although he is like a mockingbird that sings for people. The title 'To kill a mockingbird' links to the situation of Boo, where he is avoided by everyone despite his act of

Boo Radley in this metaphor quite clearly is a sheep, that is covered in wolf's clothing. Sheep are quite gentle, friendly, and sensitive creatures, just like Boo Radley. As you can see in my illustration, there is a sheep dressed as a wolf, and two people running away from it. The people running away are a representation of the citizens of Maycomb, who seem to be running away scared of the creature. The wolf’s color is evidently black, this represents darkness, horror, and terror, which contradicts Boo’s true nature.

To begin, when Boo Radley is first mentioned, Jem describes him similarly to a monstrous being without ever even meeting him. Later, Mrs Maudie states, “‘I remember Arthur Radley when he was a boy. He always spoke nicely to me, no matter what folks say he did. Spoke as nicely as he knew how’” (Lee 61).

In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout narrates the novel by telling the story of how Jem broke his arm. Atticus Finch is the father of two kids, Jem and Scout, who always get into trouble and are the most mischievous and nosy kids around. Atticus is a lawyer who is in a case defending a black man named Tom Robinson, who is harmless and innocent, while the kids are always tormenting and bothering the innocent Boo Radley. Because they are innocent and harmless, but treated with suspicion, both Boo and Tom exemplify the symbol of the mockingbird in this novel. Tom Robinson is represented by a mockingbird in this story by always being innocent and never harming, but always being tormented.

Arthur Radley is a representation of the mockingbird. [insert some background info here.] Miss Maudie remarks, “‘That is a sad house.’... ‘The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens behind closed doors, what secrets—’” (Lee 46) This quote implies that Boo Radley might have been abused by his father. It reveals that Arthur Radley was a kid, who lost his innocence and normal childhood because of the isolation and abuse imposed on him by his father. “According to Miss Stephanie, … Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his pants and resumed his activities.” (Lee 11)

Boo Radley never harmed anyone, but was judged by the rumors spreading across the community. Although he was not actually introduced until the end of the novel, Boo Radley is set up to be the last discovered symbolic character for the image of the mockingbird. During the last chapter of the novel, Scout comes to the realization that blaming Boo for Bob Ewell's death would be "sort of like shooting' a mockingbird." (chapter 30). Getting Boo sent to jail or killed would be like killing a mockingbird. Boo is truly a good person. He left gifts for Jem and Scout in the trunk of a tree, he wrapped a blanket around them when Miss Maudie's house caught on fire, and he saved them from Bob Ewell when he tried to murder them. Boo Radley is a victim of Maycomb's social prejudice and a perfect representation of Harper Lee's description of the mockingbird.