Boo is never seen outside his house until the end of the novel. His hands are the pale colour associated with people who spend their time indoors and only venture outside in darkness. This emphasises the fact that Boo is shy and lacking in confidence. Maycomb residents have not seen Boo for many years; in fact many people have not seen him at all. It is this sort of irresponsible gossip which has encouraged Scout, Jem and Dill to want to make Boo come out of his house.
Stephanie Crawford even told me she woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at her. However, they highlight the fact that people like Stephanie Crawford find it easy to believe that, when they are scared or when they believe someone is trying to hurt them, Boo is to blame. Autumn again, and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.
Just standing on the Radley porch was enough. A shift in perspective transforms Boo Radley from an evil spirit into a guardian angel. What really cements it for Scout is an act of imagination, as she visualizes what the events of the last few years might have looked like to Boo. It seems like the book is telling us here that, to understand and sympathize with others, all you need is imagination. Maybe that's why Lee has a child tell the story—because children can use their imaginations.
Sure, imagining Boo Radley as a monster may not have been very nice, but it did make the kids try to figure out how Boo Radley sees the world. Atticus, he was real nice Scout literally "finally sees" Boo Radley, but perhaps there's more to "seeing" than that. The Tom Robinson case suggests that it's all too possible for people to look at someone and still not see that he's a human being just like them.
Boo Radley starts out a monster and ends up a man, but he never rejoins the Maycomb community. Or perhaps, in taking an active interest in the Finch children, he already has: perhaps his character suggests that the bonds that hold a community together can be more than just social ones.
Parents Home Homeschool College Resources. Study Guide. By Harper Lee. The people make up fictitious stories about him, which further hurts his image. Jem and Scout absorb these tales and hunt for Boo Radley to make him come out to see if they are true.
After their plans to make him emerge fail, they start getting gifts from Boo Radley. They slowly begin to realize that none of Maycomb's vicious tales can accurately describe a nice, lonely, law abiding young man, who is silently begging for a friend. Scout and Jem grow from being young children, whose dream it is to see the dreadful Boo Radley, to thoughtful young adults who understand who Boo Radley is as a person.
By doing this, they set themselves apart from the Maycomb townspeople with a mature outlook on Boo Radley. Boo Radley is portrayed as a spiteful maniac, an idea that almost embeds itself in Jem and Scout's minds until Boo Radley shows them who he actually is, a quiet and reserved young man who knows right from wrong.
Boo Radley chooses to stay in his house because he is scared to come out of it. When Boo Radley emerges and saves Jem and Scout, the reality of his character is fully revealed to the children. Tina Bishop, M. In chapter 23, Jem says Boo Radley stays inside to avoid the prejudice and hatred in Maycomb, which have been put on full display by the Tom Robinson trial.
As Jem matures he begins to realise that one of the reasons Boo Radley may not leave his house anymore is because he no longer wants to. His house offers him the security that the outside world would not. At the end of Chapter 23, Jem makes the realization that Boo Radley is not a prisoner, he is a refugee.
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