Boo Radley's Interest In To Kill A Mockingbird

Since Dill came to Maycomb he stood out as different. (16) When talk of Boo Radley began, Dill wanted to make him come out of his house. He turned the Finch kids into more adventurous kids wandering closer to the Radley house. Atticus’ kids changed him too though. When they got a few years older Dill had become a little more mature too.

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

Scout and Jem explain to Dill about all the devious acts Boo does in the small town of Maycomb county. Scout says… ¨Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom¨(Lee 10). This quotation shows us how Scout depicted Boo Radley. She didn't really see him as a

Boo Radley is a mysterious person who often staked out by Jem, Scout and Dill. Apparently, Boo save Jem. It turned out that Boo Radley was not as unexpected. Then Atticus tells Jem about Boo who is a symbol like a mockingbird.

Boo Radley is the town haunt of Maycomb, rumoured to eat cats and squirrels and peer through windows at night. Most people regard the Radley house with suspicion and fear, because he never leaves it. Though shrouded in mystery, Arthur “Boo” Radley is a perfect model of integrity in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird because he retained his humanity in spite of abuse and was willing to leave the comfort of the shadows to do what he knew was right.

Soon, Jem and Scout mention Boo Radley to their new friend Dill. Being a newcomer to Maycomb, Dill becomes curious and wants to know what Boo is like. In an attempt to give Dill a sense of who he is, “Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six and a half feet tall... he dined on raw squirrels... his eyes popped.”

Summer comes; Dill comes to Maycomb only for the summer from Meridian to visit his aunt Miss Rachael. Dill, Scout, and Jem Finch (Scout’s brother) are all best friends and do everything together. They all want Boo Radley to come out of his house. Boo Radley a mysterious old man who has not come out of his house for 20 years. Boo stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors and is known as a psychotic monster.

He is accountable for creating many themes as well affecting the actions and development of other characters. Furthermore, he plays a major role in the maturation of Jem and Scout. Jem, Scout, and Dill are fascinated by the rumors of Boo Radley around them. People in Maycomb perceive Boo as someone who, “dined on raw squirrels and cats” and “the teeth he had were yellow and rotten”(16). This quote shows the people’s impression of Boo and how they affect the childrens in the book.

Jem and Scout begin to talk to Dill about the neighborhood, especially the Radley house. The Radley 's are a very unusual family. If anything bad or unexpected happened, mostly everybody blamed it on the Radley house. Dill began to investigate in this situation. Scout said, " The more we told Dill about the Radley 's the more he wanted to know.

Also, he uses the word tracks which seems as if he is trying to say Boo has monstrous feet that would leave tracks not prints. Another quote that also comes from Jem is him explaining once again how Boo Radley’s appearance is not as normal as other people, “...what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time” (Lee 13). This piece of text also shows that people treat Boo much like a monster because of the description of the way his teeth and eyes are. The next time that people describe Boo like he is non human is when Jem is dared by Dill to touch the Radley front door, “You’re too scared even to put your big toe in the front yard” (Lee 13). Dill says this saying Jem is not man enough to put even his toe

hapters 1-3 1. Scout’s comments and reactions contributed to the pressure Jem felt to accept Dill’s dare. At one point, Scout says, “Always runnin’,”(Lee 17). This insinuates that Jem is alarmed by even the idea of going past the house, so he will surely never have the gall to run up and touch the house. It also states that Scout “sneered at him”(Lee 18).

Jem functions as the mentor and bigger brother of Scout, and similarly to Dill, from the beginning of the story. However, as Jem’s character develops, he begins to see Scout under a mild authoritarian view. During the first summer, Dill and Jem are constantly daring each other to touch or approach the Radley house, when Scout warns Jem about the consequences for this daring challenge, Jem retaliates by telling her that “‘you act so much like a girl it’s mortifyin’”(50). Jem’s outburst gives Scout

In Chapter 4 of To Kill a Mockingbird Jem and Scout find several things in the knot-hole of the old oak tree on the Radley house. The children are very curious about who left these things there. Later in the book they realize that it is Boo Radley is leaving the gifts. He is trying to show them his affection for them. Throughout the novel Jem and scout find 2 sticks of gum, a pack of gum, 2 old Indian head coins, gray twine, soap figures carved to like Jem and Scout, old spelling bee medals and an old watch on a chain and an aluminum knife.

Decide how the relationship between Scout and Boo Radley evolves providing sufficient evidence In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, Scout develops a strange relationship with a mysterious character, Boo Radley. Scout, Jem, and Dill are interested in Boo Radley because of the mystery that dominates around him and the Radley house. The town people poorly judge Boo Radley and hearing stories from Miss Stephanie Crawford frightens Scout and Jem. Although the relationship starts out as fear and mystery, as time passes, Scout begins to realize that Boo isn’t the monster they described him as, he is rather a nice and caring person.

Throughout the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird,” written by Harper Lee, the readers can see how Scout changes her view about Boo Radley. Because of their nosiness, Jem, Scout, and Dill try to drag Boo out his house and to the outside world. Their innocent actions combined with Boo’s actions changed the image of Boo, in their minds, from “a malevolent phantom” (10), a person who kills cats and eats squirrels to a neighbor they can trust, who saves them from Bob Ewell. Scout says at the end, “Boo was our neighbor” (373). The readers can see a great change in their relationship.