Jean Louise “Scout” Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee from the beginning of the novel sees the local solitary, Arthur “Boo” Radley, as a threat and insane, running past the Radley Place each day on the way from school. All her neighbors shared that Boo was a former criminal, stalker, and a threat to all Negroes, causing Scout to have the preconceived idea that Boo was a psychopath. However, in chapter 27, Scout walks by the Radley’s house from school and she expresses a different perspective on Boo, a moment that displays Scout’s transformation in character through imagery, characterization, and the story’s first person point of view.
Scout begins the passage describing the Radley’s house saying, “The Radley Place ceased to terrify me, but it was no less gloomy, no less chilly under its great oaks, and no less uninviting” (Lee 242).…