![]() ![]() This means that stories have spread about Boo’s apparently grotesque appearance and awful deeds. Maycomb residents have not seen Boo for many years in fact many people have not seen him at all. This emphasises the fact that Boo is shy and lacking in confidence. His hands are the pale colour associated with people who spend their time indoors and only venture outside in darkness. Scout’s description of Boo when she meets him for the first time reinforces the amount of time he has spent indoors. ![]() They were white hands, sickly white hands that had never seen the sun, so white they stood out garishly against the dull cream wall in the dim light of Jem’s room. Although Jem and the reader begin to suspect Boo is responsible for leaving gifts in the hole of the oak tree and sewing together Jem’s torn trousers, he is not actually seen until he rescues Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell’s attack. Reclusive How is Boo like this?īoo is never seen outside his house until the end of the novel. By the end of the novel, both Scout and Jem realise that Boo is a very different man to the one they imagined him to be. His house offers him the security that the outside world would not. He rewards them by leaving Jem and Scout gifts in the hole in the tree outside his garden but he also tries to look after them, especially when they are attacked by Bob Ewell.Īs 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. When Mr Radley dies, people in Maycomb think Boo might be allowed outside but his brother Nathan Radley returns home and Boo’s imprisonment continues.īoo becomes fascinated with watching Scout, Jem and Dill play in the street outside his house. For a while after this incident Boo is imprisoned in the basement of the courthouse, but is later moved back home. He becomes like a ghost who is unable to lead a normal fulfilling life, apparently rebelling only when he stabs his father in the leg with a pair of scissors. The judge agreed but unfortunately for Boo this meant that he spent the next 15 years of his life locked up in his childhood home. The other boys were sent to an industrial school but Mr Radley, Boo’s father, thought it was too embarrassing for his son to attend such a school and asked if he could look after his son instead. One night the boys crashed a “ flivver ” and appeared in court. When he was young he began to associate with a gang of boys and gradually they became a nuisance in Maycomb, drinking whiskey and going to dances at a gambling den. Boo Radley is a neighbour of the Finch family. ![]()
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