The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee includes the contradictory characters Mayella Ewell and Arthur Boo Radley. These opposite individuals have identifiable similarities and differences. Mayella and Boo are similar and different in many ways. One similarity is the are both lonely. Mayella is lonely just about the whole book, but Boo gets a little less lonely at the end of the book because scout becomes his friend. Another similarity is they’re both alone. There is a big difference in being lonely, and being alone. You can be in a room full of people and feel lonely. You can also be alone in a room with no one in it and be completely fine. Having no friends their age is a third similarity between the two characters. Despite their
