To Kill A Mockingbird Relationship Between Scout And Boo Radley

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In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the main character Scout tries to figure out her neighbor Boo Radley. Boo is seen as a monster; he is known mainly for stabbing his father in the leg. He has been his house ever since the incident. During the book Scout’s relationship with boo grows closer, but she does not realize it. Scout says at the end of the book, “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 actually gave a lot back to Boo that she didn't realize. She gave him a chance when everyone had pushed him out, she gave him the privacy he wanted even if she didn’t really want to, and she protected him from meeting an awful fate.

Scout gives Boo a chance by trying to get to know him for herself. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird the mysterious Boo Radley is considered an outcast in Maycomb County. Scout still sees him as this monster, but still wants to learn more about him. She would even bribe him with food. She shows how desperate.” We're asking him real …show more content…

Bob Ewell follows them from the school and attacks them with a knife. Boo protects them and Boo pulls Bob off the kids and stabs Bob. Atticus thinks that Jem killed Bob Ewell but during a conversation with Sheriff Tate he realizes Boo killed Bob. They agree that Bob fell on his own knife. They don’t want to put Boo through all of that for doing what was right. “I never heard against the law for a citizen to do his utmost to prevent a crime from being committed, which is exactly what he did, but maybe you'll say it's my duty to tell the town all about it and not hush it up” (pg. 369). Officer Tate and Atticus both see the danger saying Boo killed Bob Ewell. After this is over Scout walks Boo to his door and he goes inside. Scout knows that in order to keep her new friend she can’t tell anyone Boo killed Bob

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