Through life, the perception a person has rules over everything they know while also emphasizing how they are perceived by others. Furthermore, perception can bring people to wrongly judge what they see in the world. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the perception of a child in a town full of rumors to fully affirm Arthur “Boo” Radley as the true mockingbird. Considering that the perspective of the novel is told from a child, it can be hard to see Boo Radley as anything more than a menace in the beginning. At the end of the novel, Boo is finally seen as what he truly is, innocent. The reveal of his true character at the end of the novel is startling to readers, who have thus far only heard the bad things about him. Boo
