Would you perform an exceedingly perilous deed merely for fun? In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem, Dill, and Scout did that very thing, not to their best good. The story took place in the late 1940’s in a sleepy town in Maycomb County, Alabama. Boo Radley, whose real name was Arthur Radley, lived three houses down from the Finches, and Boo occupied that house without ever coming out for 15 years, carefully guarded by his father, until his father passed away, and then by his brother, Nathan Radley. He never wanted to leave his house. The Radleys were sick, pale, mysterious people that didn’t really have friends and therefore never really talked to anyone, for that matter. So the mischievous Dill, Jem, and Scout decided to make him come out. Everyone agrees that the Radley’s place was intriguing and mysterious. Some maintain that the children should have tried to make Boo come out. Others believe the contrary. The children should not have pestered Boo for three reasons: It was dangerous, it was disliked, and it was not christianly.
First, it was dangerous. Nathan Radley owned a gun, and one of the times that the children tried to pester Boo, he shot into the air. Afterwards, he declared that, he would aim better the next time he “saw someone in his collard patch”. Also, the neighbors’ legends maintained a possibility of …show more content…
The Radleys were shy, and didn’t know many people. It would be much nicer of the children to knock on the door, rather than sticking a note on a pole through the blinds. And it is not christianly to bug and talk so much about people that would rather mind their own business, as the children did. Furthermore, when Jem, Dill, and Scout pestered Boo, it served them right when Jem lost his pants escaping from the Radleys’ yard under a fence. Doing wrong is like a boomerang. It always comes back to you, and has its individual consequence, no matter how hard you try to make it a
First, it was dangerous. Nathan Radley owned a gun, and one of the times that the children tried to pester Boo, he shot into the air. Afterwards, he declared that, he would aim better the next time he “saw someone in his collard patch”. Also, the neighbors’ legends maintained a possibility of …show more content…
The Radleys were shy, and didn’t know many people. It would be much nicer of the children to knock on the door, rather than sticking a note on a pole through the blinds. And it is not christianly to bug and talk so much about people that would rather mind their own business, as the children did. Furthermore, when Jem, Dill, and Scout pestered Boo, it served them right when Jem lost his pants escaping from the Radleys’ yard under a fence. Doing wrong is like a boomerang. It always comes back to you, and has its individual consequence, no matter how hard you try to make it a