Since the beginning of the book until now, Boo was depicted as somebody who was scary, violent, and evil. However, at the end of the book when we finally meet Boo, he seems like the kindest, most caring, and introverted person ever. Someone who the whole town and especially Dill, Jem, and Scout were scared of, asked Scout, a child, to walk him home. After three hundred plus pages, Boo says, "Will you walk me home?" In the end, we find out the irony that everyone in the book was scared of him, but in the end, he is the one who's scared, is socially awkward, and has a mental disability. Just like Lennie, I feel sympathy for him. At the end of the book, Scout replays the book from Boo's point of view and uses Atticus's advice of stepping in someone else's shoes and walking around. I especially liked and thought it is was clever about how Harper Lee included The Gray Ghost at the end of the book and how Scout was really talking about Boo when she was talking about the Stoner's Boy. In the end, 376 pages later, one of the most important lessons we learn is that most people are nice when you finally see them. You just have to be tolerant and walk in others' shoes first. Because of this main message and the other important messages learned from this book, I think that To Kill a Mockingbird is beautiful in a way that the author delivers these messages through a marathon of emotional and shocking experiences.
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I liked how you said that we have basically grown up with Scout through all the experiences, because we kind of have. We spent three months reading this. Everything that you talked about in your blog post here about Boo is so true. All the gossip and rumors that Boo is scary, violent, and evil that even Dill, Jem, and Scout believed, isn't true. I feel sympathy for Boo too, it's hard not to. I also thought it was clever of Harper Lee to include The Gray Ghost as a comparison to Boo, and how you need to be tolerant and step in others' shoes first.
ReplyDeleteYou had a very good blog post and I liked it very much. I also found it crazy to see Boo as a calm scared man rather than the monster Scout and Jem described him as. I also do feel bad for Boo because he spends all his time alone and afraid, and I feel bad for him because no one understands his mental disability. I also liked the part where Harper Lee included The Gray Ghost because it was a smart the way that she was able to connect the book to Boo through Scout summarizing the book.
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