Character Analysis Boo Radley

To Kill A Boo Radley? Boo Radley may not have appeared until the very end of To Kill A Mockingbird, but the story would not be the same without him. To Kill A Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee, and it is Fictitious. About the first third of the book, the reader finds that the children have heard stories about how Boo is a terrible person and how he stabbed his father. Even though he is only spoken of, he still does things to change events in the novel without being there. An example of Boo making an impact on the main characters is when he was filling the trees with goodies. The children would collect them, and they loved to play with them. It is known that Boo put the items in the tree, and he affected the story. Another example is when Boo stitched up Jem’s pants when they were ripped. He was in a hurry, and had to leave without his pants. They had …show more content…
He’s very pale from never getting sunlight. This is proof that Boo couldn’t have been out making differences physically, but the stories about him were enough to make the townspeople frightened of him. Nobody has any evidence that Boo Radley is a bad person. They have just heard rumors about him. One of them is about how he stabbed his father in the leg while he was clipping newspaper articles. Miss Stephanie claimed to have seen it happen. People avoid their house just because of the rumors. The children all play games at their house and get in trouble with Atticus. Everyone might not have always been on the lookout for him, but he was always in the back of their thoughts. Boo comes and saves Jem and Scout at the end of the book. The readers see him for the first time and he did not come to hurt any of the good characters. Without Boo being there the entire time, what would have changed? Boo Radley, in To Kill A Mockingbird, is definitely a minor character with a major