To Kill A Mockingbird Examples Of Shyness

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People often associate a person’s shyness with their intelligence level. The book To Kill a Mockingbird has an excellent example of a man who is shy, but is not unintelligent. There’s also examples in modern day to prove that quiet people have clever minds. People who identify themselves as being introverts, soft spoken and like to be in solitude, are often some of the world's most powerful people. In To Kill a Mockingbird Boo Radley is the book's biggest introvert. Scout, Jem, and Dill often make trips to the Radley place and sit outside trying to get messages to Boo or trying to catch a glimpse of Boo. During the many trips the children make to Boo’s house they never actually see him or talk to him. Boo is seen as being the mysterious

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