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They stopped at an oak tree, delighted, puzzled, apprehensive. Winter, and his children shivered at the front gate, silhouetted against a blazing house. Summer, and he watched his children's heart break. Autumn again, and Boo's children needed him.

Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough. A shift in perspective transforms Boo Radley from an evil spirit into a guardian angel.

What really cements it for Scout is an act of imagination, as she visualizes what the events of the last few years might have looked like to Boo. It seems like the book is telling us here that, to understand and sympathize with others, all you need is imagination. Maybe that's why Lee has a child tell the story—because children can use their imaginations.

Sure, imagining Boo Radley as a monster may not have been very nice, but it did make the kids try to figure out how Boo Radley sees the world. Atticus, he was real nice Scout literally "finally sees" Boo Radley, but perhaps there's more to "seeing" than that.

The Tom Robinson case suggests that it's all too possible for people to look at someone and still not see that he's a human being just like them. Boo Radley starts out a monster and ends up a man, but he never rejoins the Maycomb community. Or perhaps, in taking an active interest in the Finch children, he already has: perhaps his character suggests that the bonds that hold a community together can be more than just social ones. Parents Home Homeschool College Resources.

Study Guide. By Harper Lee. Previous Next. Arthur Radley Boo Boo the Monster. Thank you for my children, Arthur, he said. The whole incident where Boo rescues the children allows us to see how kind he is. He leaves his house and risks his own life in order to save them yet he has had so little kindness shown to him throughout his life.

This emphasises the point that far from being the monster some people in Maycomb believe him to be, he is a decent human being who has developed the ability to display kindness despite being treated with great unkindness himself.

Boo Radley Reclusive. Feared by many. Reclusive How is Boo like this? Feared by many How is Boo like this? Evidence Stephanie Crawford even told me she woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at her.

Kind How is Boo like this? What does Mrs. Dubose teach Scout and Jem? Why does Dolphus Raymond hide Coca-Cola in a brown paper bag? Why does Mayella Ewell lie on the witness stand?

What qualities make Atticus a good father? Why does Aunt Alexandra move into the Finch household? Characters Boo Radley. Previous section Jem Finch Next section Calpurnia.