Boo's Personal View

Boo is definity one of our many mockingbirds. People make up rumors about him, even though none of them are true. They never make the time to actually get to know him, and they ridicule him even though he did nothing wrong. Mr. Heck Tate has been trying to help him when he figured out that it was Boo that killed Bob Ewell. Mr. Tate wants to save Boo from all the publicity, because he is the only one in the county that would not want to be so public. Boo would be a mockingbird in this scene, because all he did was save two children and killed a man for it, and the whole town would think he is a hero and bring him angel food cake. A normal person would like the attention and all the food cake, but not Arthur, he doesn't want much attention in the town, all he likes to do is stay inside. Now we know that Arthur actually likes staying inside, because it keeps him from all the attention that he doesn't want. 

Boo has been a character that has popped in and out of the book thorought chapters. Before now, we have never seen Boo, but we have been able to get glimpses of what he is like. He was there for everything. When Scout was in the tire, he was there laughing, when Jem touched the house, he was watching them, he left gifts for the children to find in the knothole of the tree, he helped Jem with his pants after they got caught in his fence, he was the shadow that they saw move past them in the window, he put a blanket over the kids the night of the fire, and he saved their lives when they needed him most. Thorout this entire book, Boo has been there the entire time in different ways. It may have been a small shutter flick or a laughter, but he was still there.


I think that Boo is one of my favorite characters, because he is the one that just comes in to save the day, but he doesn't want the attention of all the people. All he wants is to be left alone, and I find that so funny because that reminds me of a lot of people I know, they just don't want to be around people, and I find that really funny. However, now after realizing what Boo is dealing with I can understand why he doesn't want to come out. People have pre decided what he is like, and they have made up in their mind that he is some killer that spies on you. I think that Boo is very relatable in many different ways, but we need to understand that Boo doesn't want to be in the spot light, and if people find out he is a hero, then that could lead to more potential problems for him and for the people of Maycomb.