Essay On Arthur Boo Radley

Arthur "Boo" Radley, the youngest child of Mr. and Mrs. Radley, is first introduced to readers as a shy and mysterious recluse who mostly appears in the imaginations of Jem, Scout, and Dill or in the stories told by the residence of Maycomb.
As the story progresses and the childrens' mind's continue to wander, Jem presents us with what seems to be the first reasonable description of Boo: "Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained- if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time." From this description Boo is portrayed to all three children as a demonised and mysterious character who only does evil, and their new

Mr. Radley thought this place was a disgrace and he wanted his son to have no part of it so he promised the judge that if his son were to be released, he would personally see to it that the young Radley boy would no longer cause any trouble. The judge trusted the word of Mr. Radley and allowed his son to walk free of charges, and that was the last day that Boo Radley was seen for fifteen years, until one day when everything went wrong.
According to Miss Stephanie Crawford the story went like this: After fifteen years of being kept inside away from humanity, the thirty-three year old Boo Radley finally snapped. It was rumored that Boo stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of siccors while he was cutting out newspaper articles from The Maycomb Tribune. His brutal actions caused Mrs. Radley to run into the streets screaming about how her son was killing them all, but when the sheriff arrived he found Boo quietly continuing about his business as if nothing had