- What does Miss Stephanie Crawford say about Boo Radley? Do you believe her? Why or why not? What does this show us about her?
- What does Atticus say about Boo Radley? Do you believe him? Why or why not? What does this show us about him?
- What does Calpurnia say about Boo Radley? Do you believe her? Why or why not? What does this show us about her?
- What do the children say about Boo Radley? Do you believe them? Why or why not? What does this show us the children of Maycomb county?
- What do you believe is the truth behind the story of Boo Radley?
- If someone stole the idea right out of your head, respond to their comment pushing the conversation further. Don't just agree with them, add to the conversation by providing quotations, examples and explanations.
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Lizzie
10/2/2015 07:33:49 am
5. I think the real story behind boo radley is that he was a teenager who got into some messed up stuff and then his family realized that he had some mental health issues that they needed to keep and eye on. But the town made a bigger deal about it and maybe started to provoke boo sometimes and that's what got him all riled up and got him doing bad things.
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Soha
10/3/2015 12:31:42 pm
I agree with Liz that Boo got into some trouble as a teenager but I think that when Mr. Radley started to keep Boo locked in the house is where his mental health issues began rather than Boo having them before him and his friends got caught. I also agree that the town started to provoke him, which made his mental state even worse.
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Garrett
10/5/2015 04:33:39 pm
I agree with both Liz and Soha, but because not many people had close relationships with Boo, it can't be said surely which information is true, and which information is false rumours that have gotten distorted as they have been passed along.
azra
10/2/2015 10:05:21 am
5. I do believe that Boo Radley might be unstable or does have a mental problem that affects the way he is. I feel as though him being a 30 year old and him being very unstable, something about his past affected him in some way which makes me feel as though that is the main reason why he is the way he is. Either that or it could have been a birth defect.
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Katie
10/2/2015 10:10:35 am
4. The children say a lot of silly things about Boo, like he stabbed his dad with scissors, and such. I don´t think I really believe everything that the kids say because most of what they hear is rumours, and with rumours the story can change a lot from the original thought. Also you never know if the original story was even true or not. Scout was a child at the time of the story and now she is an adult, her memories may not be very clear and she could just be trying to fill gaps by adding random details.
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Sarah
10/2/2015 02:45:05 pm
I agree with Katie. The children do say many weird things about Boo. In the book when Scout is talking with Miss Maudie, Scout says, "I never heard why, though. Nobody ever told me why." (Lee 58) "Why" is representing the story about why he stays inside his house all the time. Since Scout really does not know the complete story many of her ideas and details told so far in the book are not 100% true because she does not know the full story. Everybody in the town has a different perspective and idea of what exactly happened to Boo Radley so it is hard to know who is right.
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Soha
10/3/2015 12:22:27 pm
I agree with both Katie and Sarah about how the children say many rumours about Boo which can't be proved as true so I don't believe them either. When Jem and Scout are talking to Dill about Boo Jem says, "Miss Stephanie Crawford said she woke u in the middle of the night and saw him looking straight through the window at her... I've seen his tracks in our back yard many a mornin', and one night I heard him scratching on the back screen , but he was gone time Atticus got there" (Lee 16). This quote shows that Jem and the other children believe any stories told to them about Boo and even add their own thoughts. There is no evidence that the tracks Jem saw or the scratching on their backscreen was Boo. I think this shows us that the children of Maycomb see Boo's life as a form or their entertainment because of all the rumours and continue to talk about him because I'd assume their lives are very repetitive in their small county whereas he provides some excitement into their routines.
Maggie
10/2/2015 01:30:06 pm
1. Miss Stephanie Crawford says that Boo is dangerous and crazy, as shown by her saying that Boo stabbed his father in the leg with scissors nonchalantly. Personally, I don't believe her at all because I believe Boo's father would not live with his crazy psychopath of a son anymore if he was stabbed in the leg with scissors. I think there was a reason behind the stabbing and that Miss Crawford was exaggerating it extremely. This shows us that she is a very fickle person, and that she likes to gossip, regardless of how the person/people in question would feel.
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Anya
10/5/2015 10:05:22 am
I agree with what you're saying, about Miss Crawford over exaggerating. Miss Crawford also said "[I] woke up in the middle of the night and found him looking in the window at [me]"(Lee 60). This shows that she is a person who seeks attention. She probably didn't see Boo, but wants attention, so she created a story to have something to talk about. I think something happened inside the Radley house, but i'm not sure if it was a stabbing of some sort; it would be very hard to contain someone after an event like that. There is a possibility that Mr Radley was mentally unstable and blamed Boo for the rumored events. But now that Mr Radley is gone, and the older son is back, I think that Boo might want to come out, but knows about the legend Maycomb has created.
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Will
10/3/2015 11:34:32 am
2. Atticus thinks that Boo Radley is like everyone else, (Normal) thus this quote proving it: "What Mr. Radley did might seem percurlier to us, but it did not seem percurlier to him" (65). As well as in chapter 5 near the end when the kids got caught trying to give a letter to Mr.Radley, Atticus says, "... stop tormenting that man" (65). This shows that Atticus is a person who respects the privacy of people and everyone is treated the same through the eyes of him.
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Mikayla
10/4/2015 11:40:11 am
2. Atticus's kids tend to make fun of Boo and he doesn't allow it. They try to make Boo come outside and so far they have never seen him. It is evident that when Atticus is telling the kids to leave Mr. Radley alone he means it. He thinks of him the same as he does everyone else. There have been many rumours about Boo and his mental stateAll on page 65 Atticus is going on to Jem, Scout and Dill how Radley will do what he pleases and if he wants to be alone, let him be.
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Samantha
10/4/2015 01:17:30 pm
5. I think that us as readers but also the characters in the story don't know the truth behind Boo Radley's story. All we know is what Scout knows but everything that she knows has been told through a chain of rumours. I think that Boo Radley likely has a mental health issue but us readers don't know what caused it (maybe a traumatic childhood experience or maybe just born that way). Either way, I think that no one actually knows Boo Radley's story and that the majority of the rumours are currently just rumours.
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Hope
10/4/2015 06:07:42 pm
1)Miss Stephanie Crawford says that Boo once stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors. Only someone is psychotic or mentally ill would do something like that out of the blue. But even after that incident happened his father continued to live with him? Who would live with a psychopath? If Boo really did stab his father in the leg then surely Mr. Radley wouldn’t continue to live with him. He would at least try to help Boo in some way but as far as we know they just carried on after the incident. Miss Stephanie Crawford is a gossip so it makes her an unreliable source for information, so I don't really believe her.
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Justin
10/4/2015 07:44:14 pm
5) I agree with the fact that you would have to have serious issues to stab your father in the leg therefor I highly doubt that it is the truth. When miss Stephanie Crawford says that boo stabbed his father this could either be gossip which would make her an unreliable source or she could have heard it from somewhere. Potentially boo could have come up with the story to make himself even more untouchable and make everybody scared of him.
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Justin
10/4/2015 07:44:53 pm
That meant to be 1)
Mitchell
10/5/2015 05:47:13 am
I agree with what Justin has said. Stabbing your father with scissors doesn't really seem realistic. I think boo Radley might have a mental disability which might not even factor in because everyone already thinks he's really scary so they will probably believe he's crazy because he ate too many squirrels or something.
Scott
10/5/2015 10:09:54 am
#5) I think that Boo Radley is just a teen who doesn't like to go outside and people have conjured multiple rumors about him. For example, some neighbors and kids think that he stabbed his dad in the leg with scissors and has literal bloodstained hands, while Atticus describes him as a potential devout christian who thinks pleasure is not right and that's why he stays inside alone. Potentially
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Phoenix
10/5/2015 03:47:17 pm
5. I believe that Boo Radley used to be a normal, happy kid, as Miss Maudie said, "'I remember Arthur Radley when he was a boy. He always spoke nicely to me, no matter what folks said he did'"(Lee 61). But I think he made some very poor choices as a teenager which led to his father never letting him leave the house. I believe because of the things Boo did in his teens neighbours have made up various stories and rumours about him, like that he stabbed his father in the leg, because he can't defend himself. As well, his neighbours just assume the worst because of his choices while he was a teen.
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Julia
10/8/2015 05:28:12 am
I agree with Scott in the sense that child with a good upbringing will do something so violent. If the rumours are true I think it says more about Boo Radley's father than it does about him. Kids are a product of their environment and if a child feels the need to act violent towards someone it's probably because that person has been violent towards them.
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