TKAM journal response 5

Quote:” His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor’s image blurred with my sudden tears. “Hey, Boo,” I said.”

This is a very important quote because it is when Scout finally learns the truth about Boo Radley. Since the start of this novel, the children believe that Boo is an old and scary man who is a bad person. Now Scout realizes he isn’t a bad person at all and that he saved Jem and Scout’s lives. Scout also realizes that she and her brother should’t have made fun of Boo in their games and that everything people tell them is not true.

The most common them in this book is growing up and this shows the realization that Boo is a good person and that you should not believe everything you hear. Also it shows that Scout has grown up because she even talks and is really nice to Boo. These acts of kindness show that she understands the type of person he actually is.