Arthur Radley's Character
Ms. Lee has gone a long way to create this novel of carefully sustained mystery that she calls "To Kill A Mockingbird". Harper Lee Describes her tranquil southern town that surprises you with a climax so astonishing, it can be described as an erupt lava of emotions. In this melodramatic novel, the most unforgettable character, in my opinion, was Arthur Radley(A.K.A. Boo). Boo can be characterized as reclusive, misinterpreted, and in some ways parental. In the remainder of this essay, I will explain to prove why this traits are true. First of all, Boo Radley lives in seclusion. Arthur's Father was a Foot-washing baptist and according to Miss. Maudie "Foot-washers believe anything that's pleasure is a sin."(pg.44). This could have pressurized Boo into staying inside. Jem seems to understand why Boo lives in seclusion when he tells Scout "I think I beginning to understand why Boo Radley stayed shut up in his house all this time... it's because he wants to stay inside."(pg.227). When Scout meets Arthur for the first time, she sees that this was a man that never goes out, b
As well as being secluded, he is also misinterpreted. False rumors have spread through Maycomb affecting everyone's opinion about Boo Radley. For example, when Jem first met Dill "Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was 6 1/2 feet tall... dined on all the raw squirrels and cats he could catch... you could never wash the blood off... there was a large scar that ran across his face... his eyes popped and he drooled most of the time."(pg.13). Of course this wasn't true, and the children were quite frightened by him. On one occasion, Miss Maudie tells Scout "Miss. Stephanie told me that once she woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at her... I said what did you do, move over and make room for him."(pg.45) Another example of misunderstanding would be when Scout, as narrator, says "Inside that house lives a malevolent phantom... people say he went out at night... and peeped into windows... Stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.. Radley pecans would kill you... a baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball, and no
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