How Does Boo Radley Characterize In To Kill A Mockingbird

Characterization is a device that is used very well with the protagonist, Scout Finch. In the beginning of the novel Scout was an innocent 5-year-old girl who actively played with her brother, Jem Finch, and their friend, Dill Harris, in the summertime. As a young girl, Scout developed a fear over Boo Radley describing him as a "malevolent phantom" and not thinking of him as a person. Scout always solves her problem with violence, and Scout could never understand why people do and think things. A little bit more into the story Scout finds presents from “Boo Radley”, hidden within a knot hole in a tree in front of the Radley property and she begins to think about him more as a human. Throughout the story, Scout progressively gets older as she gets a bit more mature, but

He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad” (373). In this case, Scouts word choice and her ability to be able to connect with Arthur Radley clearly shows that she has developed a lot throughout the story. In the beginning Scout was never able to even think of Arthur Radley of being human, but now she is able to humanize him instead of thinking of him as a senseless ghost. Scout also shows that she can finally understand how others feel by being in their shoes which shows a lot of growth within Scouts personality. Characterization is not the only device that is used very good within the story, symbolism is an important device as well. Throughout the novel the mockingbird seems to have a very important significance within the plot, and main conflict of the story. After Atticus gives his air rifles to Jem and Scout to shoot, Uncle Jack teach them how to use them due to the fact that Atticus is not interested in guns. One-day Atticus told Jem that he would rather him shoot tin cans instead of