He says to his wife “You’d never guess what that kid has been doing up there!” After Terry’s uncle and aunt find what he has been doing, they both laughed at the fact that a boy was playing with paper dolls. However, Terry
No one really ever saw Boo Radley and the people of the town made up many weird stories about him and the spooky house he lives in. It illustrates that when someone is different’ from us we will make up stories or blame them for things that are not their fault because we are afraid. Despite the kindnesses shown to the children by Boo, (Chapter 4 ‘Scout passes the Radley Place and sees some tinfoil sticking out of a knothole in one of the Radleys’ oak trees. Scout reaches into the knothole and discovers two pieces of chewing gum’ and in Chapter 7 ‘When they come home from school that day, they find another present hidden in the knothole: a ball of gray twine’) the children do not see Boo as a human being but as a person to be feared. The children’s father Atticus, tries to make the children more compassionate and tries to get them to see things from the other person’s point of view before judging them, (Atticus, Chapter 3: ‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view .
Boo Radley is portrayed as en evil figure for most of the novel, mainly due to rumours circulating about him. For example, Jem is told by Miss Stephanie Crawford (the town gossip) that Boo “[drives] [a pair] of scissors into his [father’s] leg, pull[s] them out, wipe[s] them on his pants, and resume[s] his activities” (11).Boo’s innocence is shown, however, when Jem says to Scout; “I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It’s because he wants to stay inside"(231). This passage reveals to the reader that Boo Radley is not a figure to be afraid of, but to be pitied. Boo is afraid of how Maycomb will judge him, much like how the blacks are judged and prejudiced against by the whites.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Dialectical Journal Ch 1-3 “ The Window Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was a rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the window was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out” (1,1) “ When we was ten foot off Tom whispered to me, and wanted to tie Jim to the tree for fun. But I said no; je might wake and make a disturbance, and then they'd find out I warn't in. Then Tom said he hadn't got candles enough, and he would slip in the kitchen and get some more. I didn't want him to try. I said Jim might wake up and come.
When Scout arrived home, Atticus immediately began to question her about the incident. Scout was unaware of who the dark figure may be, until she realized that Carasone 3 Boo Radley was standing in the room. Shocked she then understood that it was Boo who saved her and her brother. “I took him by the hand, a hand surprisingly warm for its witnesses” (277). Scout understands that Boo is a compassionate person, unlike the mysterious unknown neighbor they once thought.
After Boo Radley saves Scout’s life by defending her from Bob Ewell, Scout walks him home. Standing on his front porch, she reflects, “Neighbours bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbour. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbours give in return.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee tells the story, mainly through Scout’s eyes, of the events that led up to Jem breaking his arm when he was nearly thirteen. The reader follows Scout through the novel and sees how she matures and develops, and also how Jem matures and develops, often shown by Scout being puzzled about the way he behaves. Having given the reader a history and context for the novel, the author introduces key characters, including neighbors such as the Radleys, Mrs. Dubose, Miss Maudie and Miss Stephanie. The visiting Dill creates a dare about the Radley house, concerning Arthur Radley, who is described as a‘malevolent phantom’. By describing Scout’s first days at school, Harper Lee criticizes aspects of the education system in Alabama and to reveal the views of Atticus, the lawyer father and single parent of Jem and Scout.
Arthur “Boo” Radley, is the most glaring outsider in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Boo Radley is a man who had some problems with the law when he was a teenager. Ever since then, his father kept him in the house. Readers never encounter Boo throughout the whole novel until the final chapters. They do hear plenty of rumours though from characters in the novel, building an aura of mystery and fear around Boo.
The lesson learned in this novel is quoted directly in the book, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” This story takes place during the Great Depression in a town called Maycomb, Alabama. The narrarator, Scout Finch, lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus. Boo Radley is a neighbor of the Finches. Jem, Scout, and Dill, a friend, let their imaginations run wild with thoughts of Boo. The children have been terrified and fascinated with their neighbor.
He never directly says the meaning of the hat other than its unusual appearance but I can interpret pretty well on what its true meaning is. Holden wants to be the catcher in the rye. He wants to save children from falling off the cliff. With that said the hat might also represent the catcher in the rye and who had the hat was the catcher. After he gave Phoebe the hat, he kept on feeling like he was going to fall when he came to each block and was asking his dead brother Allie to stop him from falling.