To Kill A Mockingbird Essays: Why Do Children Meet Boo?

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I predict that the kids will not meet Boo, there is just no way that it will happen. One of the reasons I believe that the kids will not meet Boo is that, he never comes out of his house. He is locked up/hidden, he has done some bad things, which is why he is locked up in his house by his father. He has been in many ‘incidents”, where he has been involved in some violence among people. He was part of a gang that most of the members were sent to prison, for doing a crime, but Boo’s father insisted on letting Boo stay with him. Another way to see that he never comes out of the house is, his yard is very dirty and pretty much everything about the house is not very well taken care of. His family also in general just never goes out of the house. None of them go to church on sunday, or anything religious that is outside. …show more content…
The kids have found out about these stories over the years, and these stories include one about Boo stabbing his dad with some scissors. People around the town believe, not just kids, that the sidewalk outside their house his pretty much haunted, to the point where people will walk across the road to get by. Another belief about the Radley’s just in general is that if you eat one of the pecans outside of their house, is that you will straight up die. Boo also looks like Death himself according to the children. He has a massive scar that, no one really knows how he got it, there are stories, but no one is for sure. They do not know much about him, like if he is buff or scrawny, he is very mysterious. People have assumed in the past that Boo was responsible for mutilating their pets or cattle, and it would not be very surprising if it was based on his always dark, evil expression. These are just some of the reasons that I think that there is no way the kids will meet Boo, there is just to many unknown things about him, except that he is dangerous of
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