Boo Radley and Scout Essay Example

inferences about him based on what they have heard. These feelings about Boo

Radley starts to change when the children begin to find presents in a knothole outside of the Radley place. They figured that they were from Boo Radley. It was a way for him to show them that he wants to be their friend. The children do not realize this until later and then want to thank him by inviting him out for ice cream. They were caught by Atticus and he told him to stop pestering Mr. Radley. On Halloween night, as Jem and Scout were walking home from the school play, they felt as if they were being followed.

Scout thought that it might be Cecil Jacobs since he tried to scare her earlier. As it turns out, it was Bob Ewell. Still angered by Atticus's attempts at making him look like a fool, he tried to murder Scout and Jem. Jem has fallen unconscionably and has broken his arm, leaving Scout to defend herself. When scout thought that she was going to die, something mysterious had happened. She had realized that she had a savior, but she was not sure who it was. The next thing she saw was a man carrying Jem home and Bob Ewell dead with a knife in his ribs.

When she returned home, Jem was in the bed resting when Atticus told scout that there is someone that she needs to meet. It was Boo Radley, the man she feared the most who had saved her life. At that moment Scout is no longer afraid and treats Boo as an equal. She

knows he saved her life and Jem's life, and looks upon him with respect. The power of this moment brings Scout to tears, but, as always, she handles herself with maturity beyond her age. When Atticus found out that Bob Ewell was dead he said “There's a black boy dead or no reason, and the man responsible for it's dead. Let the dead bury the dead this time.... ”. (Lee 278) In a sense, one could look at Arthur “Boo” Radley as the symbol of this novel, the mockingbird. He never really harmed anyone, he just stays inside leaving the people of Maycomb at peace. Scout says that Mr. Arthur is like a mockingbird because telling everyone that he is the mockingbird is like killing him from the inside. It would give him publicity and a person like a boo, that is shy, would feel scared from all of it. So it would be like killing a mockingbird.