How Was Boo Radley Treated

Treat others the way you’d want to be treated There is always that one person in your neighborhood who is recluse and he/she is very passionate about something they love like music, but it's not always annoying to hear. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the story takes place in the 1930’s in Maycomb County, Alabama. The story is told by a little girl named Scout and she has an older brother, Jem. They have decided to have a quick glimpse of their unseen neighbor (Arthur) Boo Radley. Meanwhile their father, Atticus is fighting for a client, Tom Robinson, a black man who was accused of rapping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. In the book, everybody thinks Boo Radley is just a crazy person that nobody cares for, but in the end

This explains just exactly what Jem really thinks about Boo, “Jem gave a 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” (Lee 13). Jem gave brief descriptions of what he really thinks about Boo, and by the looks of it, he makes him sound like a serial killer. Not what someone would want around your neighborhood. He probably learned all these facts from all the adults that live around him, and actually did not get to see what he is like with him one on one, but in the end, he learns

She heard all these horrible sounds and things happening mostly at night. “Every night- sound I heard from my cot on the back porch was magnified three fold; every scratch of feet on gravel was Boo Radley seeking revenge, every passing Negro laughing in the night was Boo Radley’s insane fingers picking the wire to pieces” (Lee 55). It was hard for Scout to sleep at night, all she did was roll around all night in bed, from almost sleeping to full awakeness; with all horrible rumors about Boo, she never felt safe at night knowing he only comes out at night. Another day comes by, it is about the testimony of Tom Robinson, “As Tom Robinson gave his testimony, it came to me that Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years” (Lee 193). It seems as if he will always be that man who was cooped up in his house for the rest of his