Many people think they know somebody, when really they don’t know them at all. In “To Kill a Mocking Bird” Harper Lee proved that it’s hard to know someone until you go through what they go through. Through characterization Lee proved that you don’t know someone until you walk in their shoes, and see what they see every day.
Lee uses characterization to prove that it’s hard to tell who someone really is. Like Boo Radley, and Tom Robinson. Lee makes both of the characters seem evil, and mean. But once the story goes on Scout and Jem soon realize who those men really are because in some ways they are going through what they went through. In the end Scout realizes that Boo Radley isn’t an evil person he is a nice loving