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To Kill A Mockingbird Boo Radley Analysis

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In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are examples of Boo Radley being a symbolism for prejudice. Boo Radley is being judged and thought of as “a Malevolent phantom”, by others in Maycomb and the main characters Scout and Jem even though “Jem and I [Scout] had never seen him” (Lee 10). Jem and Scout have a negative thinking towards Boo Radley despite that they have never met one another. They are judging Boo Radley before they even get to know him and they based their thinking the fact that Boo Radley likes to stay at home. Countless rumors and theories are talked among people because of the way Boo Radley likes to live his life: “Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work” (Lee 10). Numerous people in Maycomb have used their creative imagination and negative thinking towards Boo Radley to make up ridiculous stories even though most of them don’t know him very well and that much of them have heard about Boo Radley from someone else: “People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in the windows. When people’s azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them” (Lee 10). The negative judgment of the …show more content…

From someone who have met Boo Radley like Miss Maudie she have said something different about Boo Radley than everyone else as she has not judged him by rumors in town: “‘I remember Arthur Radley when he was a boy. He always spoke nicely to me, no matter what folks said he did. Spoke as nicely as he knew how’” (Lee 61). All evidence has proven that nearly all of the town have judged Boo Radley as a negative character basing on unjustified stories that others make up because of the usual way Boo Radley likes to live his life, therefore Boo Radley is a symbolism for

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