Boo Radley Setting Analysis

In the Harper Lee novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the author used the Maycomb Alabama setting of the story for multiple purposes. Throughout Scout 's memories, the reader is transported into the world of a small southern town. Lee interrupts Scout 's chronological narrative to reach back in time and enhance and increase the story with past events. Throughout her childhood Scout develops and expands her standards and ideas as she meets characters who come from all points of Maycomb 's culture. Scout learns about honesty and what is wrong by watching the trial of an African American man. She witnesses the divisions of class and race in her small town. She discovers courage, both in herself and in those around her, and she comes to respect the mixture of the people in her community, people such as Tom Robinson and Boo Radley. The theme of social unfairness is stated through Scout 's version of …show more content…
At the begging of the novel, Boo Radley is a mystery to the children. As they continue to try to get Boo to come out of the house, their judgment of him changes from one of fear to one of snooping. The gifts in the tree bring relationship to one of distant friendship. This is when the children begin to make Boo the hero of their games rather than the antihero. Boo Radley has become a distant watchful defender, which is the role he continues to play until the end of the book. Boo Radley is a wonderful person. When Boo was a teenager, he and some friends got into some trouble and were going to be sent to an institution. Mr. Radley assumed that would be an embarrassment to the family, so he took Boo’s into his own hands, important to Boo being locked away in the Radley house until he was an adult. When Mr. Radley died, Boo’s older brother Nathan returned to Maycomb and took over the household. “Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn’t know it when he put the blanket around