neighborhood legend. In To KIll A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ the protagonist’s neighborhood is Maycomb County. The neighborhood is very social and everybody knows everybody. Maycomb County’s neighborhood legend is a malignant person named Boo Radley. Boo Radley’s real name is Arthur Radley and he is in his thirties. He lives with his family in their house. The Radley house is an slate-gray house that nobody dares to enter. The neighbors may have stretched the truth about Boo Radley. Based on rumors‚ the
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The symbolism of the mockingbird relates to Boo Radley because he is of an innocent nature. Such as‚ the mockingbird which does not feast on things that it shouldn’t neither does it nest where it does not belong. Instead‚ all it does is create marvelous music for people to enjoy. Similarly‚ as the mockingbird is of an innocent nature so is Boo Radley because he never wished harm to befall anyone. In fact‚ his only act of violence was accidental. Yet people found it in their hearts to accuse him of
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To Kill a Mockingbird‚ Boo Radley can be compared to a popular urban legend called Green Man. Boo Radley and the Green Man are both supposedly horrifying to look at. Both men only come out at night‚ and when they do‚ they roam the streets and creep on people. Because Boo Radley shares multiple similarities with The Green Man‚ he should be considered an urban legend. In the story To Kill a Mockingbird‚ an urban legend takes place. Inside an old‚ dark house lives the mysterious Boo Radley. Boo Radley’s
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Samson Bennett TKAM Jenn The Real Monster In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the main theme is not racism or that it focuses on the trial‚ but the book’s real main theme is how Scout grows up into a mature and decorous young woman from innocent child. Nothing in the novel is a better symbol of her development than Boo Radley’s character and how she views him. At the beginning of the book‚ Scout’s opinion on Boo Radley’s image and character is shrouded by myths and rumors that she hears
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Brenda Suarez Legorreta Mr. Stefanelli English CP /"Gifts to Boo Radley" March 13 2014 At the end of the novel of Haper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ many things unravel. An adult Scout says‚ "Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls‚ a broken watch and chain‚ a pair of good-luck pennies‚ and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into that tree what we took out of it: we
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example‚ Katniss Everdeen has two identities‚ one is how she acts in public. Katniss comes off as strong to the public but in private she is not. Through Harper Lee’s character’s Boo Radley‚ Atticus‚ and Bob Ewell readers learn that it is necessary to develop a public and private self in To Kill A Mockingbird. For Boo Radley it is very important for him to have a private and public identity. Not many people have ever seen him but they have heard stories of him. People make up stories of him that are
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>>Pretend you are Boo Radley (from To Kill a Mocking Bird). Write your secret diary entry about how you have been punished and kept in a virtual prison for fifteen years. It has been so very long since my father first locked me up in this house. I mean‚ I was only a teenager having fun‚ I did not do anything serious or anything. At first‚ after a couple of days punishment‚ it thought I would be finally set free by father. After a couple of weeks‚ I realised that it seemed I would never be let out
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fictional novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee illustrates the types of prejudice that people often face. The story takes place in Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ during the Great Depression in the 1930’s. Two kids and a father experience social injustices‚ personal evolvement‚ and different perspective throughout the story. Prejudice is viewed in the novel through‚ social‚ racial and economical aspects. The social aspect of prejudice is shown through the novel by the characters Boo(Arthur) Radley and Dolphus Raymond
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Boo Radley: A Presence Unseen From the first chapter‚ Lee creates mystery with Boo. She doesn’t explicitly introduce him as a main character. She uses the words and actions of others to build interest in Boo and creates a setting for Jem to see him as a human being instead of a “malevolent phantom”. Jem is drawn to Boo’s story‚ which he has heard all of his life. Townsfolk tell stories of Boo coming out at night and peeping through peoples’ windows‚ freezing their azaleas by breathing on them‚
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about very often by most of the town. In the 1930s’ Maycomb County‚ Alabama of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird (New York: Grand Central‚ 1960)‚ this particular person was dubbed “Boo”. Not much is seen of Arthur (Boo) Radley which leaves the town much room to create many fictions that hide the little known facts. The real Boo is nothing like the town’s “Boo”. In the very first chapter‚ the town’s view of Boo is explained to newcomer Charles Baker “Dill” Harris (10-16). The very first words Scout used
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