Arthur Boo Radley Character Analysis

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In Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mocking Bird," the main character, Scout, changes a lot as she grows and learns new things. As you follow her life, her views as a child versus her views as an older girl, are quite different. Even as a young child she is very capable of understanding some things, that would be missed by other children. Even so she is still a child, and is entitled to her fantasies. This is impart because of her curiosity and willingness to learn, and partly because of Atticus. As she progresses her point of view and understanding of what is truth and what is made up has been sharpened, especially on the topic of Arthur "Boo" Radley. She learned all that she did through the teachings of Atticus, real world and personal experience, …show more content…
Especially the children, who foster ideas like poisounus nuts, lumbering giants, consumption of raw animals, and only appering out side at night. As a child, Scout along with everyone else belived in these falsehoods as much as the next child. With Jem spurring on her imagination and curiosity for a majority of their adolescent life, she was bound to have the same oppinion as many others. Once she knew the story to a better extent and actually got to meet Boo, she understood better, even if few words were exchanged. Undoubtedly, many people still have thir own ideas and opinions about what happend those many years ago, but the reader at least knows the part that counts. Scot from a young age had a twisted idea of what Boo was, as many of the other children did. Through life, he managed to suprise Scout in a good way. She had a better understanding each time and apreciated him more, especially after being saved from Bob Ewell. She bloomd as a person should, but unfortunatly had to face many difficulies. I think that tthe difficult events were part of the shaping of how she saw Boo though. She had to face difficult struggles and she could relate in a way to Boo's

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