Boo Radley is a very quiet man who got into trouble with the law at a young age and has stayed inside his house since. Around town, he is seen as a bad man who is very weird for staying inside his house, and rumors about him are everywhere. Scout and Jem hear about this and are very interested about this, so they go and mess around at his house. Even with all these people thinking he is a weird, crazy person, Boo Radley is still a great person. When there was a fire, the kids were outside when it was cold, and Boo Radley was nice enough to wrap a blanket around Scout.
The Pulitzer Prize winning novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” written by Harper Lee portrays the life of a young girl, Scout, and her family who live together in Maycomb, Alabama circa 1930s. Scout lives next to some fascinating people that have legends and myths made about them because of their back story. One of them being Boo Radley. Boo was locked away in his house by his parents for most of his life after committing crimes that put him away for good. After the news got out about his vanishing into the Radley house forever many stories were made up about him.
To kill a mockingbird In life some people are misjudged and treated unfairly for many different reasons, your impressions on these people may change after time. This happens with some characters in the Harper Lee's to kill a Mockingbird, like Mrs. Dubose, Mr. Dolphus Raymond, Boo Radley and others. Mrs. Dubose shows how her personality changes and how brave she is dying clean of morphine and fighting so hard, the kids see this later on in the novel. Mr. Dolphus Raymond opens up to the kids and trusts them with his secret, he really is not a bad man he is just making sacrifices for his family and their situation. Boo Radley comes across as a bad person in Harper Lee's book, he gets into trouble a lot, the kids see on the night of the
None of the kids have saw him a day in their life, but they hear countless stories of how terrible he is and that he has been locked up for a very long time. Boo (Arthur) Radley has been getting locked up basically his entire life. Boo drove a scissors into his father’s leg it stated on page 9. This is the start to Boo Radleys life in solitude. After he was tried in court for the stabbing Boo was locked in the courthouse basement because no one had the heart to put him in jail with the Negros.
In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the circumstances of Boo Radley’s fate signifies the sin of killing a mockingbird because of his disconnection to the world as a result of his maltreatment. In his reckless teenage years, Boo Radley and his Old Sarum friends drove around the town square in a borrowed car and locked Maycomb’s beadle in the courthouse outhouse. Harsh punishment ensued as a result of his brash actions when Mr. Radley detained Boo in their house and “was not seen again for fifteen years” (13). This symbolizes the killing of a mockingbird because Boo Radley was a young, foolhardy boy who was cut off from the world by his father due to a single mistake.
Boo Radley is firmly misunderstood by the people of Maycomb and seen as a menace to society , just as the mockingbird was. Many people in Maycomb know the tale of the scissors. It goes
Mr. Radley isolates Boo from the outside world, so Boo, at the age of thirty-three, stabs Mr. Radley in the leg with a pair of scissors. Again, Mr. Radley prefers confining Boo to the courthouse basement than accept that “Boo wasn’t crazy, he was high-strung” (11). Mr. Radley saves the family reputation by preventing Boo’s incarceration, but the time Boo spends locked up in his own home makes Boo unhinged. When rumors about Boo’s attack circulate Maycomb, they turn a blind eye to “what [is happening in Boo’s house] behind closed doors” despite knowing Mr. Radley is “the meanest man God blew breath into” by arguing that Boo is crazy, and they choose to ignore the obvious emotional abuse (12, 46). Society
To Kill a Mockingbird is about a little girl named Jean Louise Finch, called Scout, and her brother, Jeremy Finch, called Jem. A few houses down from theirs is the Radley’s house. Throughout the story, they try to make Arthur Radley, sometimes referred to as Boo Radley, come out of the house, because he never does. Some people are puzzled as to why Boo Radley doesn’t like to come out of his house, and I have a theory. This world is a cruel place, but many people don’t realize that.
The book depicts Boo as a distraught boy and who is never seen as anything more. Eventually, Boo has enough, and protects himself from the cruel discrimination of his fellow townspeople by hiding out in his own home. Though Boo’s reclusion shows his depression the nonstop talk about him continues on. These rumors soon became the tales of the Maycomb “Haunt”. Therefore, the discrimination towards Boo Radley demolished his life and turned it into a tragedy
Something acquired is referred to as a lesson. Tom Robinson and Boo Radley, two key figures in Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbird, are criticized and falsely accused of committing crimes. Scout, the primary character, learns a valuable lesson from this: Never judge a person by their circumstances or appearance. Boo Radley's inability to exit his house caused the entire town of Maycomb to view him as insane. After meeting him, Scout learns that he was a nice guy and that all the conspiracies had been disproven.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee many characters are victims of the harsh conditions of Maycomb County. Often those who are seen to be metaphorical mockingbirds are punished the most. A mockingbird is one who only wants and attempts to do good. Characters such as Boo Radley, Jem Finch and Tom Robinson are exemplars of mockingbirds in Maycomb. In the novel it is explained by Atticus that killing a mockingbird is a sin because they do not do anything to harm to us like nesting in corncribs, or eating up the gardens, they only sing for us.
Boo was sentenced from an early age to be a “monster” of sorts due to his past dealings with the law and his time spent in solitary confinement. This story that is invented by the people of Maycomb alters Boo Radley’s true appearance greatly, deeming him to be something he is
Boo Radley who “was not seen again for fifteen years”, is the most misunderstood person in Maycomb. His childhood mistakes marginalise him from society by a “form of intimidation Mr Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight.” To elaborate, Boo did not intend to separate himself and be perceived as a “malevolent phantom.” In truth, Boo is intensely lonely and wants to befriend the children in which he saves their lives. Similarly, in The
Rumors swept through the town, ruining a man’s reputation and giving him no reason to step outside of his own home. In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Arthur “Boo” Radley is the most complex of Maycomb’s residents. Many say Boo is a killer that should not be trusted near children. However, Scout thinks otherwise as she tries to understand Boo herself. She learns more than she figured, as Boo teaches her numerous lessons without even meeting her.
Boo Radley represents one of the “mockingbirds” in the book, and a mockingbird is someone that is pure and innocence in the world. He is a good person that is hurt by the evil of mankind. In a lot of ways, Boo Radley might have have wanted to stay shut up in his house after seeing some of the awful acts that the townspeople have committed. But after seeing the Finch kids being attacked by Bob Ewell he had no choice but to leave the comfort of his own home that he has been enclosed in for so long to come out and save them. All though it would have been easier for this man to stay in his house rather than leave and then be drug into court, he did what he knew would be right and rescued the
