The Radley house creates a new understanding for us as readers. The house shows the quietness and deaf-like attitude the Radley house portrays in the novel. “A tiny, almost invisible movement, and the house was still.” (Lee 19) The Radley family, besides Mr. Radley, Nathan, and Boo on occasion as said in the book, never comes out of the house and has never bothered anyone. The story foreshadows that Boo Radley is the mockingbird of Maycomb. He has always been there to help when needed, but has never hurt or done anything awful to the people in Maycomb. “When I went back for my breeches… they were folded across the fence… like they were expectin’ me… They’d been sewed up… All crooked. It’s almost like--somebody knew you were comin’ back for
