We don't
know a great deal about what's gone on inside the Radley residence over the years. We know
thatonce stabbed his old man with a pair of scissors for some unspecified reason, but that's
about it. Because so little is known about Boo, the people of Maycomb have turned him into a
creepy boogie-man, a figure of local legend constructed out of scraps of gossip, prejudice, and
hearsay. The real Arthur Radley remains a complete mystery.
That is until he
starts to reach out to the Finch children by leaving them little keepsakes in the knot of a
tree. It's only then that we start to get a glimpse of the living, breathing human being beneath
the monster of urban legend.
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