The novel 'To Kill a Mockingbird' is a story about the older Scout looking back at her childhood in Maycomb, Alabama retrospectively as an adult, how she had grown up from a world of complete innocence which she should have at her age into a much more complexed adult world contains lots of negative elements that she had never thought about trough numbers of vital lessons taught by different people.
Boo Radley, a mysterious figure whom lives only a few yards but children can only know from the myths all around him spared all over the small town of Maycomb played an important role in their maturation of Jem, Scout and Dill. The children used their creative imagination which is a significant feature of child to interpret and make sense of Boo Radley. Although he only begins as a figure of 'scary monster' in the children's imagination, their unique relationship changes as the outside world start to interup with the children's innocence.
Dill, a seven year old boy who comes from Mississipi in the summer is an important plot link between Jem and Scout with Boo Radley. Being an outsider, Dill have the curiosity of the 'moster' Boo that Jem and Scout wouldn't have because they were grown up with it and it was a social rule in Maycomb not to get close to Boo which doesn't apply to the outsider Dill.
The children start to be interested at Boo, they play games about Boo such as Dill trying to get boo to come out of the house, or looking trough the window of the Radley's place to have a sense of Boo even though Atticus had told them constantly to stay away from the Radley's are childish, innocent way of seeing themselves if the legend of Boo is real. Latter on Jem 'invented' a game of role play and the polt was the story of Boo, after they been told off by Atticus Jem still tries to play the game in a way that Atticus wouldn't trough it's about Boo. The children's relationship with Boo becomes a fun game they could play with in their free time, and presented this…
Dill, Jem and Scout act out Boo Radley's childhood.
In "To Kill a Mockingbird," according to Scout, Boo Radley lives in the Radley house.
In the Radley's Yard
Boo Radley leaves the presents for Scout and Jem in the knothole of the tree near the Radley house.
Scout ask Atticus what does rape means?
Atticus tells Scout very little about the Radley house, as he wants to respect the privacy of the reclusive Radley family. He also wishes to instill in Scout a sense of empathy and understanding for others' perspectives. Atticus encourages Scout to be compassionate and respectful towards Boo Radley and his family.
boo radley saved jem and scout. bob Ewell tried to kill them and he stabbed bob. my heck tate covered it up for him.
Scout and Jem are standing in the Radley yard during the episode. They are near the Radley house, observing Boo Radley from a safe distance.
Scout hears laughter and someone's voice saying "You touch it, you look at it" coming from the Radley house after she rolls into their yard in a tire.
Jem and Dill first took Scout into the Radley yard the night before Dill was supposed to leave Maycomb for the schoolyear. However, Lee does state that Scout "rolled into the Radley front yard" earlier in the book when she Jem and Dill were playing with an old tire.
The tree with a knothole in "To Kill a Mockingbird" symbolizes hidden treasures and acts as a place where Boo Radley can subtly communicate with Scout and Jem. It also represents empathy, understanding, and the innocence of childhood.
she landed at the Radley's house