Essay On Boo Radley

Firstly, Scout assumes the worst of Boo Radley. In the beginning of the novel, Scout says she was so scared “To face Boo Radley and his bloody fangs” (Lee 64). Scout saw Boo as a monster and not a person. She created this image of him from all the stories she had heard. She does not give him the benefit of the doubt and believes all the stories about him. To add on, Scout explains that “Every night-sound I heard from my cot on the back porch was magnified threefold; every scratch of feet on gravel was Boo Radley” (Lee 74). In the beginning of the book she has two categories for people: good and bad. She immediately places Boo in the bad category just because of all the stories she had heard about him. She does see things beyond just good and …show more content…
Boo Radley was only one of her many examples of Scout’s point of view changing. This also shows how children and parents have similar points of view. Atticus was one of the few who were open minded in Maycomb and he taught Jem and Scout how to be open minded. If Scout had been in any other family, her views on people like Boo would not have changed without a parent who gives everyone the benefit of the doubt. Atticus succeeded in teaching Scout and Jem that people are not always how they are told through stories. Atticus had explained to them that you don’t know a person “until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39). This applies to the real world because people should not be labelling others without getting to know them first. People need to give each other the benefit of the doubt to be in a non-judgmental society. Though judging is part of human nature, people should try to put their best effort to judge others less. Scout change of view on Boo was an example why assuming other people’s personality from stories is inaccurate. To sum up, the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, explains how stories about a person can be