Boo Radley Setting

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Boo is a boy who once went into a house that was “Haunted”. Boo’s dad, Mr.Radley is a very strict person. Boo is mean and a bad person. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the intro is about a boy named Boo.My story is based in Maycomb, Alabama . Boo is a character that hangs around the wrong crowd. When Boo’s father, Mr.Radley, died everyone thought that Boo would come out and show himself. Mr.Radley was not a nice man people would say “hey” and he would just ignore them. After Boo’s father died his older brother came to live with him but his older brother was just as mean. Throughout the novel the setting is in Maycomb, Alabama. The setting is important in this case because of how they are living. I can tell that Maycomb is a is a place where it has trees and lots of grass. Main events in this story is when a boy named Dill is peaking over the fence while Jem and his sister are talking then Dill asks can he listen then Jean tells a story about Arthur,Boo, about …show more content…
Walter told Jem that he almost died from eating pecans from the Radley’s yard. When Jean went back to school Miss Caroline noticed that something was crawling in Burris head. It was lice, Ms.Caroline told Burris to go back home and wash his hair. Burris informed Ms.Caroline and told her that he only come on the first day of school after that he never comes back. Ms.Caroline noticed that Burris mother died and that his dad is a low-class man that drinks a lot. Burris had made Ms.Caroline cry and when he left the class tried to comfort her. When they went home that day they made sure to run past the Radley’s house. One night Jean’s dad asked her was she ready to read and her dad could tell that something was wrong with her so he asked her and she said “ her teacher told her that your dad can not teach you how to read because he is doing all wrong”. Later that night her dad said that they could keep it a secret that they read

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