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Storms make trees grow deeper roots. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird Scout is friends with Dill and her brother Jem. Dill only comes by in the summer, when they are all hanging around they love to play games about how weird Boo Radley is or they try to sneak over to his house and mess around with him. But they don’t realize that later he may be their savoir. Scout learns to look at all situation’s through others' perspectives through messing with Boo Radley and the house he lives in which shows that everyone is unique in their own ways. In the beginning of the book Scout Jem and Dill are all playing this made up game that they created around the Radley family called “Boo Radley '' since they thought they were different from everyone else. This game leads them to them almost …show more content…

“Does this by any chance have anything to do with Boo Radley? No sir, said Jem reddining. I hope it doesn't, he said shortly and went inside.”(53-54). In this quote we can see that Scout is still making fun of others for being different. Lee uses Dramatic Irony to show that Scout shouldn’t be getting away with the things that he does and that Atticus needs to be a bit more tougher on his kids. A little later in the story Jem and Dill have an idea to go to the Radley house and try to look inside to see what is going on. This takes a turn for the worst and has the whole neighborhood worried. “Dill and Jem were simply going to peep in the window with the loose shutter to see if they could get a look at Boo Radley, and if I didn’t want to go with them I could go straight home and keep my fat flopping mouth shut, that was all''(69). This quote is an example of what a scout should have done instead of again bothering Boo Radley and bothering him when you don’t know what he is actually like. Lee uses an Idiom “fat flooping mouth” to show that Jem does not want Scout to go along with them because he thinks Scout will snitch on them in the end. At the end of the book is

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