Who Is Boo Radley A Monster

In chapter one, Jem describes Boo as “...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 an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off (Lee 14).” Not just the Finch family, but the entirety of Maycomb thought of Boo as an odd individual. Throughout the town, there were even rumors that he had stabbed his dad with scissors. Given Boo Radley’s weird reputation early on in the book, it was unexpected of him to demonstrate the E Ola! values of Mlama and Kuleana later on in the chapter.

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 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 Radley’s character fits into the evil figure with a good heart archetype. As quoted in the novel Jem’s description of him was “ he is six and a half feet tall, dined on squirrels, and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands were bloodstained.” The description is as of a monster’s behavior not only by Jem, but also by the whole Maycomb community fears Boo.. As the novel progresses the children start to figure out Boo’s behavior “I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up

“[Boo Radley] 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...” (Lee 16), a child frighteningly whispers about the town “monster”, Boo Radley. In, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Arthur “Boo” Radley is a misunderstood adult of whom the entire town is scared of, even though he does not come out of his house. However, when he does come out of the house, he commits a courageous deed that ends up with the Finch Kids, Jem and Scout, indebted to him. Boo Radley is a positive citizen in the town of Maycomb because of his incredible feat of bravery for the children.

Only because they were too scared to know why he never could come out the house. Jem said “Boo Radley was about 6.5 ft 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 an animal raw, you could never wash the blood of. There was along a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; he drooled most of the time”(1). This quote proves that boo radley is a mockingbird because it shows how much children in the neighborhood really wants to know what he looks like and if he really did in the story’s that they were told about and believed were

Boo Radley hates to create trouble, so he remains inside and lacks vitamin D causing him to be as white as a ghost. "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.” (page 259) The quote explains how Boo chooses to not interact with the outside world and not get in anyone’s business. The community speaks about Boo a lot and depicts him to be a juvenile delinquent. “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…” (page 14) Here Boo is characterized to be a wild animal and a monster even though there is no significant evidence to support Jem’s claim because of society’s influence Scout accepted it as being true. Boo in all these circumstances shows how he genuinely is a

Boo Radley is a reverent hero. He saved Jem And Scout when they were being attacked by Mr. Ewell. He stepped in and stabbed Mr. Ewell with a knife. He then carried Jem home to safety where he was looked at by a doctor (Foote 75). However he is still merely looked at as a threat. Everybody knows him for attempting to kill his dad or for being chained up in his basement

Mr Radley was ashamed of his son’s behaviour when he got into the wrong crowd as a youngster and punished him by locking him up. There is a lot of gossip around Maycomb about Boo and people blame him for any bad things that happen in the neighbourhood, ‘Any stealthy crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.’ Jem turns him into a monster, ‘his hands were blood-stained’, and ‘his eyes popped’. At the end of the novel however, we find that Boo is misunderstood, and gossip of the town’s folk has made him up to be a ‘malevolent phantom’. Scout tells us he is timid, he had, ‘the voice of a child afraid of the dark’.

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

Originally I strongly disliked and feared Boo Radley because of what Scout had heard about him from Jem “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

However, Tom Robinson is not the only mockingbird in the story. Boo Radley is another harmless creature who falls victim of cruelty. He is unjustly regarded as an evil person and used as the scapegoat for all the bad happenings around town. Women are afraid of him and so are children. When the sheriff decided that he would not arrest Boo Radley for killing Bob Ewell and that would present his death as an accident, Atticus asked Scout if she understood the meaning of this decision. Scout replied that she did. Her exact words were: "Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?" (282). Boo here is also compared to the gentle bird and again it would be a 'sin' to punish him. The symbol of the mockingbird can be applied to Boo Radley from another point of view as well. The mockingbird has no song of its own. It just imitates other birds. Therefore it makes itself present and is seen through other birds. In the same way, Boo Radley is seen through the eyes of other people. He does not have a character of his own. What the reader knows about him is what other people say. He is believed to " dine on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, his hands were

He saves Jem’s life after he was attacked by Bob Ewell, and he has been injured severely. He “[walks] with the staccato steps of someone carrying a load too heavy for him… He [carries] Jem…and [he takes him] inside,” (263). Boo realizes that Jem needs helps, and so he carries Jem to his house for the attention he needs. Boo helps Jem during a time of day when no one would be mindful of the outside noises, and when most people are asleep. He displays the first trait of a mockingbird of being good, by the fact that he is focused on the objective to keep the children safe during the time of the attack. He also displays the second trait by being misunderstood by Jem and Scout as they talk about him. Jem emphasizes the idea that “Boo [is] about six-and-a-half-feet tall…, [dines] on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch…, there [is] a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had [are] yellow and rotten; his eyes pop, and he drools most of the time,” (13). Jem’s description makes Boo Radley look like one of the fictional serial killers in horror stories. This description is the actual image many people in Maycomb have when they hear the name Boo Radley. The description shows that Boo Radley is misunderstood by many people. Therefore, he displays the final trait of a mockingbird of being misunderstood by people. Boo Radley

With any great program, it takes time to build a strong and stern program to help the inmates get through with this program and accomplish all the goals that are put in front of them. The time frame that we all agreed with would be four months for our group to put this program together because we would need to go through the hiring process which would involve us having to make a website for the officers to start with the application process to find out what kind of experience they have and what they bring to the table following this would be the interviewing picking the officers that will be a part of this brain to find out where they are psychologically and then ending with the background check looking at your past work experience

When the Flinch children moved into Maycomb bad rumors were spread about the Radley house, and soon the children were terrified of this “ghostly” neighbor. Little to their knowledge Boo Radley was not a scary mean person like they thought. Boo taught both Jem and Scout that you should not judge people based on what rumors say. For example, in the beginning of the novel Scout and Jem find a knothole in a tree, but when they kept going to the tree there was always something new, like someone had been putting presents for them in their. “I were trotting in our orbit one mild October afternoon when our knot-hole stopped us again. Something white was inside this time.” (page 79). Even though Boo knew that the kids were scared of him and that they believed the rumors he still put effort into making their day and giving them something. Another example was at the very end of the novel when Boo Radley saved Jem and Scouts life. At this moment Scout had a whole new respect for Boo because he wasn't what everyone said. He was better than that. “ A man was passing under it. The man was walking with the staccato steps of someone carrying a load too heavy for him. He was going around the corner. He was carrying jem. Jem’s arm was dangling crazily in front of him.”(page 352). That was Boo that was carrying Jem back to the Flinch house. Boo Radley saved their lives and Scout will never forget him and learned a valuable lesson