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What is a good quote about Boo Radley being a Mockingbird?
“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
What are the only words Boo Radley ever says to Scout?
Scout then leads Boo Radley to the front porch, where he speaks his first and only words of the novel. While they are standing on Scout’s front porch, Boo asks Scout, “Will you take me home?” (Lee, 282). Scout mentions that Boo spoke so softly that it sounded like he was whispering.
How does Scout describe boo in Chapter 29?
How does Scout describe Boo Radley? His hands are “sickly white…so white they stood out garishly against the dull cream wall….” His face is just as white as his hands, and his eyes are so colorless that Scout thinks he may be blind. He is also extremely thin.
What does Boo Radley do in Chapter 8?
In the confusion, someone drapes a blanket over Scout. When Atticus later asks her about it, she has no idea who put it over her. Jem realizes that Boo Radley put it on her, and he reveals the whole story of the knothole, the presents, and the mended pants to Atticus.
What did Scout say about Boo Radley?
Scout is describing Boo Radley at the end of the novel when she sees him for the first time. Words like “khaki,” “gray,” “delicate,” and “thin” all reflect how physically unimposing and nonthreatening Boo actually is, as compared to the monstrous form that Boo took in the Finch children’s imagination.
How is Boo Radley described at the end of Chapter 29?
Harper Lee uses imagery to describe Boo in chapter 29. “His face was a white as his hands, but for a shadow in his jutting chin. His cheeks were thin to hollowness; his mouth was wide; there were shallow, almost delicate indentations at his temples, adn his gray eyes were so colorless I thought he was blind.
Who dies in Chapter 8 TKAM?
Mrs. Radley dies, and Atticus goes to pay his condolences at the Radleys. When he comes back Jem and Scout pounce on him to ask if he saw Boo in the flesh (he didn’t). Scout is terrified when she wakes up one morning to see white stuff pouring from the sky.
Why did boo stab his dad?
Atticus’s wife died when Scout was two, so she does not remember her mother well. Scout recounts how, as a boy, Boo got in trouble with the law and his father imprisoned him in the house as punishment. He was not heard from until fifteen years later, when he stabbed his father with a pair of scissors.