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Post by Grace Schwarzenberger on Aug 15, 2016 0:52:25 GMT
I believe Boo came out when he wanted too. He came when people were in need of him or his property was in jeopardy. He didn't change the view of other because we don't know how the rest of his life went, he just came out to help to children.
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Post by paigestan on Aug 15, 2016 0:52:53 GMT
In my opinion Boo Radley was apart from society because of what the whole town thought of him. He has a bad reputation and the town judged him in a unfair way. I think at the end when he saved the kids life it was like giving him a new life. People thought he was scary man but really he is just a regular guy who was judged.
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Post by brooke on Aug 15, 2016 0:57:15 GMT
In my opinion Boo Radley is a nice man who is only trying to do good in the book, when the towns people make up rumors about him instead of finding out the truth about who he really is and why he never comes out of his house.
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Post by davidcastillo on Aug 21, 2016 1:58:56 GMT
I believe boo avoided society on purpose because of things like the Tom Robinson case but he wished for it to be better and that's why he was often treated Jem and Scout with such good care. So yes he was still human but he simply hated the discrimination and hate that surrounded him and isolated himself from that society but saw that innocence in them and wished to help them.
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Post by Alexa Huesgen Hobbs on Aug 21, 2016 2:12:37 GMT
I'm a little confused seeing as your subject question is asking if Boo can still be human without being a part of society, while in your actual paragraph your question is how my opinion and the characters' in the book's opinion changed about Boo over time. So I'll just answer both. For your subject question the very nature of Boo sheltering himself from society shows him to be human. Perhaps it might have been an extremely dramatic reaction, but a reaction that was caused by emotional trauma and a distaste for society. So although being social and functioning in a society is generally seen as something humans do, not doing so does not make you any less humanitarian or "human". As for the evolution of how he is viewed it isn't so much as evil to good, but from one dimensional story character to actual human. As at the start of the novel he's treated like an old wives tale and Jem actually reenacts Boo's life for fun.
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