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Chapter 1: Myths of Boo Radley – provide specific myths/stories associated with Boo and the Radley Place (be sure you include specific descriptions about the house, as well as the individuals) · The mayor didn’t want to put him in jail, so he kept him in the town hall basement.

· He’s six and a half feet tall and his face is like a skull.

· He looks into people’s houses and goes in their yards at night.

· He eats squirrels and cats alive.

· His family keeps him locked up in the house but he gets out at night.

· When he was a teen, he was in the first gang in the area.

Character description and analysis of Dill Dill · Personal Traits o Adventurous § He does a lot of crazy dares and is always curious o Fun- Loving § Always laughing and finding some way to have fun o Humorous § Loves good comedy o Everyone looks up to him § Like the leader of the pack in a way · He doesn’t like to talk about his father o Makes up stories about his father to cover up who his dad really is o All of his friends have a good father, but his father isn’t exactly a perfect parent · He is always looking to do something fun · Fascinated by the myths and stories of the Radley house · Wants to try to get Boo Radley to come outside of his house. o Will go to any extent to make Boo come out 

Events surrounding Dill’s dare · The reason for Dill’s dare began with the fact that “the Radley Place fascinated Dill” as, described by Scout even though he would come only as close as the light post near the house. · These stories included some basic information about the Radley’s such as how Arthur “Boo” Radley got into a lot of trouble and even ended up joining a gang who terrorized the town. Dill was also fascinated by the fact that the Radley’s pretty much never left the house. · This led to Dill asking for more and more information on the Radley’s. · Dill eventually accepted the dare to go up and knock on the door of the Radley’s simply through many of the stories he had been told. · Some of these stories included the fact that even when the Radley’s were to come out or were observed, many strange things were noticed. · An example of this is how Mr. Radley was said to eat dead animals. · All of the stories about Boo Radley were actually counterintuitive meaning that the were what excited Dill and made him want to get closer and closer to “the Radley Place.” However, Jem ends up knocking on the house only after Dill claimed that Jem was too scared to do it. · Dill probably tricked Jem into doing it because he was too scared to do it himself. Read the last paragraph – What is shocking? What literary terms does Harper Lee incorporate? Why? · “The old house was the same, droopy and sick, but as we stared down the street we thought we saw an inside shutter move. Flick. A tiny, almost invisible movement, and the house was still”(Lee 15). · This very may well be one of the most important lines of the book. This shows that Boo Radley, who the town says is a murderer (Expected to be dead), is alive and watching. · This creates a frightening moment for the children as they feel that somebody is always looking at them. · Literary Terms-

1. Harper Lee uses onomatopoeia, by saying flick.

2. She also uses foreshadowing by saying that someone is inside the house. By having someone in the house it shows that Boo is alive!

3. It also uses personification when the novel says “an inside shutter moved”