Why Is Boo Radley Innocent

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

Arthur “Boo” Radley is a man who was involved in a gang when he was young. Now he is seen as an insane and murderous person by the town. People rumor him to walk around at night and peer in people's windows and eat squirrels and cats.

It takes a lot of courage to kill someone who is intending to kill someone with a knife. Boo Radley is just another character to show courage in the

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 How to Kill a Mockingbird the kids, Jem and Scout, obsess over this man named Boo Radley. Boo never came out of his house and

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.

Boo Radley is labeled an outcast and an outsider by the society of Maycomb because of the rumors and myths that have surrounded him through the years of being confined to his brother’s home. For over twenty-five years, Boo Radley has been restricted to the indoor limits of the Radley house suppressing him further from the Maycomb community. Arthur “Boo” Radley was a troublesome child who sadly continued to make wrong choices once he became

Arthur Radley, also known as Boo, was the subject of many town rumors. He was speculated to eat cats, and kill children who came too close to his house. It was also said by the town gossip, Stephanie Crawford, that one day, while Boo was sitting in the living room cutting up a newspaper “ [His father] passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulled them out, wiped them on his leg, and resumed his activities” (Lee 11), and the family didn’t want to have the embarrassment of taking him to an asylum so they locked Boo away in his house. The rumors spread about him caused and were a product of his reclusion in his house. It metaphorically killed him as he could not leave the house because of what people would think, nor could he stay in the house because of the rumors it

'Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn't know it when he put the blanket around you.' My stomach turned to water and I nearly threw up when Jem held out the blanket and crept toward me." (Lee 72) Based on the stories that the children have heard about him, his behavior must have changed because they went from hearing stories of Boo stabbing his own father with scissors " As Mr. Radley passed by , Boo drove the scissors into his parent's leg , pulling them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities." (Lee 12) ,to knowing Boo put a blanket on Scout in Miss Maudie's fire, carried the Finch children home after the attack -saving their lives, and killed mean old Mr. Ewell. If you go by Miss Maudie's account, it may seem that Boo Radley did not change much. She says that he was always a kind, polite boy and, as far as we know, at the end this is still true. However, we do know that he underwent some change at some point to go from stabbing people with scissors to saving the lives of his neighbors. In the beginning of the story the Finch children are afraid of Boo Radley because of the stories they have heard about him, but by the end they say, "Boo

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.

Boo Radley, a mysterious character to everyone in the town of Maycomb. He is a gentle, caring man who loves the children. He is interpreted as a monster by some, but Jem and Scout never see that side of him. He was amused by them when Jem, Scout and Dill roll down in a tire, his laughter from inside the house could be heard(Pg#29). In the knot of the tree was gifts for the kids, pieces of gum, broken pocket watch and miniature sculptures of the children(Pg#25).

Jem and Scout saw Boo Radley as a frightening man who was a childish superstition based off of the rumors from the town. As the children grew up the stories about Boo Radley caused them to become more fascinated than frightened by Boo. The Radley house intrigued them to the point where they snuck into the backyard to try to make Boo leave his house but that resulted in the children thinking that every sound they heard was Boo coming for revenge. In the first chapters, Jem describes how they pictured Boo, which 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…”. Logically it is understood just by Jem’s description that the children had no relationship with Boo Radley other than

In the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Arthur “Boo” Radley is a mysterious and arcane character. Maycomb’s children spend their days fearing the wrath of Boo Radley. The rumors burgeoned as the children assume Boo is crazy and dangerous. In actuality, Boo just wants stay inside because he is an introvert.

    Arthur Radley better known as Boo was hanging around the wrong crowd. Even though people watched and saw it happen, nobody had the nerve to tell his dad Mr. Radley. Boo was in too deep one night when the boys resisted arrest and locked Mr. Conner who was Maycomb’s ancient beadle in the courthouse outhouse. The Cunningham boys were then sent to the state industrial school. Mr. Radley’s

We learn at the end of the book that Boo had a front row seat to the children’s lives, right from his front window. Boo was able to watch the children play, all summer long, “the day I rolled into the Radley front yard. Through all the head-shaking, quelling of nausea and Jem-yelling, I had heard another sound, so low I could not have heard it from the sidewalk. Someone inside the house was laughing”(Lee 54). Jem and Scout were were just playing their usual games, and they were taking turns pushing each other in a tire.