After having read throught the story to the end quite a few times, I still have a suprised feeling toward's the novel's ending. In the ending of the novel, Arthur "Boo" Radley finally shows himself to the characters in the story, and Scout finally gets to see him and know how he looks like. All along, Scout, Jem, and Dill were afraid of Boo, thinking that he was a monster and was extremely scary. They also had a fixed perspective of Boo, and thinking he was a horrible person, due to the rumors spread about him, and a trial he underwent as a teenager. It is implied during the story that Boo is a very lonely man, who attempted to reach out to the children for love and friendship. Throughout the novel, he is shown as kind and generous. Boo placed gifts in the knothole of the tree for the children in the beginning of the book, and when the kids were watching Miss Maudie’s house burn down also placed a blanket on Scout's shoulders, without being noticed. I feel that the ending is a good one, as it explains more about Boo and it makes me have a clearer understanding of the story. Scout finally gets to see how he looks like and undertstands that he was not as scary as she had previously pictured.
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