There are many different people in the world today, and one can’t understand all of them by just looking at them. One has to try to see the world from their perspective. In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, there are a handful of characters who can’t be fully understood at a first glance. A few of these characters are Boo Radley, who keeps himself shut inside his own home, Tom Robinson, a young black man falsely accused of rape, and Mayella Ewell, the daughter of Bob Ewell who was supposedly raped by Tom Robinson. A few characters in To Kill a Mockingbird are misunderstood, and to understand them better you’d have to walk a mile in their shoes.
Boo Radley is a recluse who lives on the same street as the Finch’s. At the start of the book based off of the rumors told about Boo Radley the kids see him as a monster as Jem describes him “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten, his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time”(16). These are the rumors spread about Boo Radley however throughout the entirety of the book Boo shows that he is a caring person instead of the monster that the kid’s thought he was. Some of things that he did are leaving items in the tree for the kids to find he placed a blanket over scout while she was watching the fire at Miss Maudie's house and most importantly he saved Jem and Scout when they were being attacked by Bob Ewell. As one can …show more content…
Most the people in maycomb county assume Tom Robinson to be guilty at first glance based off the color of his skin however as Atticus proved Tom Robinson wasn’t capable of the accused crimes since he doesn’t have use of his left arm. As Scout
Boo Radley is a recluse who lives on the same street as the Finch’s. At the start of the book based off of the rumors told about Boo Radley the kids see him as a monster as Jem describes him “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten, his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time”(16). These are the rumors spread about Boo Radley however throughout the entirety of the book Boo shows that he is a caring person instead of the monster that the kid’s thought he was. Some of things that he did are leaving items in the tree for the kids to find he placed a blanket over scout while she was watching the fire at Miss Maudie's house and most importantly he saved Jem and Scout when they were being attacked by Bob Ewell. As one can …show more content…
Most the people in maycomb county assume Tom Robinson to be guilty at first glance based off the color of his skin however as Atticus proved Tom Robinson wasn’t capable of the accused crimes since he doesn’t have use of his left arm. As Scout