Boo Radley's Journal

I am reading To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, I am on page 42. So far the book is about the town of Maycomb, Alabama and about each character and how they live in Maycomb. In the journal I will be predicting and evaluating. There is evidence in the book that the kids will never meet Boo. One piece of evidence is that Boo is locked up in the Radley house. When Boo was in his teens, he and some of the Cunninghams formed a gang in Maycomb, Alabama. The gang was discussed by the town and publicly warned by three ministers from three pulpits. Everyone in the town had the guts to tell Mr. Radley that his boy was in with the wrong crowd. Once, Boo was sitting in the living room cutting items from the newspaper to paste in his scrapbook. As his father, Mr. Radley, walked by him, he

Burris Ewell is a little rough around the edges. At one point in the story, Miss Caroline told Burris to go home and wash his hair. He had so much lice that his teacher sent him home and told him to come back when his lice was treated and gone. Miss Caroline didn’t want her other students to catch lice. Burris chuckled rudely and said to Miss Caroline, “I’m not going home”. She told Burris to sit back down. His stubbornness showed as his face turned red and he said, “You try and make me.” (Harper Lee 36). Miss Caroline took action because of his behavior. She told him to go home and if he didn’t she would call the principal. Miss Caroline told him she would report him anyway. Burris snorted and walked out the door slowly. The Ewell’s have been a disgrace to Maycomb for three generations. They live like animals. They rudely assume they could attend school whenever they wanted to. The family was part of an exclusive society made up by the Ewell’s. Bob Ewell, Burris’s father, was permitted to hunt and trap out of season. Clearly, Burris Ewell is rough around the