My name is Arthur Radley‚ Boo is my nickname. I live with my brother in our parent’s house. I’m shy so stay indoors away from people. I see everything from my window. Next door is a widowed lawyer‚ Atticus Finch‚ and his two children‚ Jem and Scout. They are fairly well off and have a black maid‚ Calpurnia. This particular summer was more interesting than most. The kids made friends with a new boy‚ Dill. They acted out stories together. Dill spends time staring at my house like he is afraid of it
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Jem‚ who is four years older than her. Scout and Jem understanding about Boo Radley changes gradually throughout the book. Scout and Jem were taught to see Boo Radley as the town’s lunatic. It has been said that Boo Radley had stabbed his father‚ been accused of killing animals. To talk about Boo in maycomb is like telling scary stories in the dark. The children have never seen him so they don’t know if he’s alive or real. “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall‚ judging from his tracks; he
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includes the contradictory characters Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. These characters have identifiable similarities and differences. Tom and Boo and similar in many ways. One similarity is they are both compared to mockingbirds in the book. Another similarity is they both just try and help out. A couple examples of this is that Tom helps out Mayella to try and be nice‚ yet he goes to prison and eventually dies for it. Another example is that Boo kills Bob Ewell to help save the kids. Also they both
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scene when scout leads boo Radley to his house and she realizes and learns that she is becoming a young adult? I will be explaining the different literary elements in this scene‚ plot‚ p.o.v‚ and the setting will affect the scene. I chose these three elements because I felt that they fit the scene and I feel that it brings out the true colors of the characters. The first literary element I will describe is p.o.v and how it changes the perspectives between scout and boo Radley. in pages 371 to 374 scout
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Between Arthur (Boo) Radley and Jean Louise (Scout) Finch In To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee‚ Scout is an educated six year old child who is very mature for her age. Despite her capability to understand things that most six year can not‚ she is a bit curious. That curiosity can be viewed as rude and or childish. She is curious about Boo Radley‚ as to why he never comes out of his house. Scout and her brother‚ Jem‚ try to come up with ways to get Boo to come out of
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"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." (Lee 13). That was how the children described Boo Radley in the beginning of the novel‚ they thought he was a frightening phantom
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man named Dolphus Raymond‚ and the Radley family. The Radley family is comprised of Mr. Radley‚ Mrs. Radley‚ Nathan Radley‚
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Boo Radley As the novel advances‚ the children’s changing attitude toward Boo Radley is an important measurement of their development from innocence toward a grown-up ethical perspective. At the beginning of the book‚ Boo is merely a source of childhood superstition. For example‚ when Jem finds his pants sown and laid out on the fence of the Radley’s‚ as he explains to Scout‚ then allowing them to consider the possibility that perhaps this childhood superstition really does exist. At
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In this journal‚ I will be predicting that they will not meet Boo Radley. One reason I think that they will not meet him is because he is locked up. The first reason I know he is locked up is that the kids have never seen him. They have not seen him‚ but people say that he exists. The second reason I believe he is locked up is because he does not go to church or socialize with anyone. One Sundays the doors and shutters on his house are always closed which usually means cold weather or sickness. He
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Mockingbird Figures Boo Radley and Tom Robinson were prejudged because they both weren’t socially fit in society. Tom Robinson was an ordinary typical black man of the age twenty-five who had three children and lived in Maycomb‚ Alabama. Everyday before going to Link Deas cotton farm‚ he would pass by Mayella Ewell and tip his hat at her. Often times she would ask him to fix something up. In To Kill a Mockingbird we often refer to Tom Robinson as a Mockingbird figure. “Mockingbirds don’t do one
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