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To Kill A Mockingbird

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, through a child's eyes Haper Lee develops a character named Arthur Radley. Arthur is know to the children simply as Boo . The name they have given him, depicts the way the children views him. Throughout the town of Maycomb, people twisted Boo's personality and character into a terrible person. As the novel unfolds, the children finally discover the true character of Boo. But, because Arthur Radley lived in the shadows of society, the creation of the myth of the monster Boo Radley thrived.
One of the reasons for the mysteriousness of Arthur Radley leads to Miss Stephanie, who filled the children's heads with numerous, false tales. The children's minds are soiled with the idea that Boo looked like a horrible monster. This idea was rendered from Miss Stephanie who, in the novel, is the town gossip. She has told Jem plenty of times how Boo looks. "Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained-if you ate an animal raw you could never was the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellowed and rotten; his eyes popped and he drooled most of the time"(Lee, 13). This image of Boo was permanently etched in the children's minds. Every time they were around the Radley house all they could think of was the six-feet-tall monster in there. Of course, Arthur did not really look like that, but any child with an imagination could not dispose of this image. The town was filled with the rumors of dangerous Boo Radley. Everyone had heard the stories of him being violent and dangerous. Jem tells the other children about a story he heard from Miss Stephanie Crawford. He explains that one day Boo was cutting some information from Maycombs newspaper to paste in his scrapbook. Then, when his father entered the room, Boo stabbed him with the scissors....