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Boo Radley would be characterized as flat in the book To Kill a Mockingbird. The perception of Boo Radley changed throughout this book. An example is when Scout remembers Atticus’s famous quote “you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them” (Lee 279). Scout uses this quote to look at him differently and she realized it. “Just standing on the Radley porch was enough” Lee (279). Without Atticus’s quote she would not have realized Boo was a nice guy. Scout realizes all of those rumors about Boo were made up. Scout also says “when they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things he was real nice” (Lee 281). Scout now knows that Boo is really nice and she shouldn’t have listened to those rumors. Atticus

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