To Kill A Mockingbird Kindness Analysis

Scout is correct when she says “Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. 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.” Scout is implying that when Boo Radley left those things in the knot hole, Scout and Jem just took out of the tree and never really thought of giving an act of kindness or some gift(s) back. When the least they could’ve done was give an act of kindness back too Boo. This goes for anyone if you are given something out of kindness you should give kindness back to them. Similar to when it rains, water is evaporated, which make clouds, then it rains onto earth. Which is raining its kindness that

“… when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.” (from chapter one). This was like a detective game to them based off rumors, which made them more suspicious and eager to get Boo too come out. Many of these rumors make Boo seem very savage like, such as “Boo bit is mothers finger one night when he couldn’t find any cats or squirrels to eat.” (chapter one). “Boo was about six-feet-tall, judging from his tracks.” , “He dined on raw squirrels and cats he could catch.” , “ His hands were bloodstained because once you ate a raw animal, the blood would not wash off.”(chapter one). Although there were some solid facts about him that boo was in trouble with the law, he was locked up in his house by his father and his brother

“… Mr. Nathan put cement in that tree, Attics, an’ he did it to stop us from findin’ things- he’s crazy, I reckon like they say, but Atticus I swear to God he ain’t never harmed us, he ain’t never hurt us, he coulda cut my throat ear to ear that night but he tried to mend my pants instead … he ain’t never hurt us, Atticus-“…” You’re right. We’d better keep this and the blanket to ourselves. Someday, maybe, Scout thank him for covering you her up.” “ Thank who?” I asked “Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn’t know it when he put the blanket around you.” Which is very kind although she still thought of it somewhat grotesque since “My stomach turned how she turned to water and I nearly threw up.” Implies this. Which shows how she still doesn’t really know if he’s kind Boo Radley or the creepy and savage like Boo