Journal #1: Dear Diary‚ I feel so trapped in this house‚ I haven’t been able to leave this place for years now. I am still currently living my brother Nathan Radley and he makes me feel like this house is hell. He won’t let me out or do anything fun around the house. I feel like a prisoner inside my own house. There is no hope of excitement in this house‚ absolutely nothing to do at all. My neighbors down the street‚ these two kids named Jem and Scout think I’m some kind of dangerous killer
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I think that Boo Radley should be locked up in jail‚ he is reckless and dangerous. Who knows what he gets up to during the night while we’re all sleepin’! His brother says he stays in the house‚ but we don’t know that for sure‚ now do we. Let me tell you a lil’ somethin’ about Boo Radley‚ he is a maniac. One night I awoke to see Boo Radley starin’ right through my window at me‚ oh and I know that if I hadn’t woken and seen him‚ he would’ve tried to kill me in my sleep! It is unsafe to have such a
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make generalizations about a person”. Boo Radley‚ a character of To Kill A Mockingbird‚ often keeps to himself in his house. He is barely outside the house and the people of Maycomb County have the fallacy of him being a monster to scare the town. Jem describes Boo as‚ ”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” (Lee 14). Not a lot of people have seen Boo or gotten to know him‚ so it is easy
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narration are taken from second hand accounts and other people. One of the main plot points of the novel is the character of Boo Radley. The Finches’ neighbour‚ Boo‚ was depicted as an elusive person. He hardly went outside or socialized with others‚ due to his violent nature. Scout had hardly any real contact with him until the end of the novel. All of the knowledge Scout knew of Boo was either from “…neighbourhood legend” (pg. 10)‚ or Jem‚ who had “…received most of his information from Miss Stephanie
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Boo Radley is essential to the book "To Kill a Mockingbird" because he is a catalyst for many other things to happen through out the book. For example he allows the reader to see what the mentality of some of the people in Maycomb. For example Miss. Stephanie Crawford‚ who demonises Boo as a monster and also a large proportion of the community who‚ for example‚ will not eat the nuts produced by the tree on the Radley’s property as they will be poisoned. "Miss. Stephanie Crawford said she woke up
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Finch‚ shows his understanding of prejudiced opinions by moving from naivety of Boo Radley to an understanding of why Boo is so reclusive. (2) Jems naivety is shown when he makes a preconceived opinion toward their reclusive and mysterious neighbor Boo Radley. Boo Radley is thought of as a scary man by the children in the community due to Boo’s appearance in court when Boo was a teenager. Jem begins to understand why Boo is so reclusive after witnessing Tom Robinson’s trial. (3) While talking to
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Atticus‚ and Boo Radley showed courage the most. In To Kill A Mockingbird these three characters popped out to me for their courage. Scout tried her best to show her courage. At times Scout did struggle with showing “too much” courage. Like when Scout’s first grade teacher asked Walter‚ a poor boy‚ if he needed money‚ and Scout tried to intervene‚ causing trouble for both her and Walter. Scout was also hesitant with some of her ideas. Including when Jem wanted her to play his game “Boo Radley”‚ and
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Radley or Boo Radley is a mysterious character in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee who lived in the Finches’ neighborhood in Maycomb. He never came out of his house in the day and wasn’t seen for fifteen years. There were rumors and myths about him and his family spread around town According to the rumor‚ he is an crazy man who he stabbed his father’s leg with a scissors and got locked inside the house. However‚ no one really knew the truth about him. At the beginning of the story‚ Boo was seen
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I will be predicting whether or not Boo Radley will be seen in the book. I predict neither Jem or Scout will see Boo Radley in the flesh. First of all most people of Maycomb has not seen Boo Radley. It would be very unlikely for Scout or Jem to have seen him. In the book‚ on page 13‚ it states that “ Mr.Radley’s boy was not seen again for fifteen years”. This shows that Boo Radley has not been seen out of his house for 15 years. Another quote from the book on page 10 says “ People said he existed
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waiting to ask a question. His eyes full of wonder‚ his mind full of thoughts; it made me remember the days I looked at a particular house with those eyes. Of course the house and its inhabitations were long gone but the memory remained. The legend of Boo Radley was now a bed-time story I told little
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