“.If there’s just one kind of folks, why can’t they get along with each other? If they’re all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time.it’s because he wants to stay inside.”-Jem (240)

“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”-Scout (293)

The Sheriff When he arrested Boo Radley (suspected of stabbing his father in the leg with a pair of scissors) he “hadn’t the heart to put him in the jail alongside Negroes”.

Boo Radley is another innocent, good person who is in jeopardy. When he kills Mr Ewell to protect the children, he should have been brought before a court, but Heck Tate decides to report that Mr Ewell fell on his knife in order to spare Boo. Scout understands this: “bringing Boo to court would be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?”

Arthur Radley is one of the “mockingbirds” in the story. It is said that he was a good person, scared by the world after being shunned by his family. He only speaks one sentence in the book: “Will you take me home?”.