Boo Radley's Unreliable Narrator
Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird’s Scout Finch is an unreliable narrator in that many of the key events she mentions throughout her narration are taken from second hand accounts and other people. One of the main plot points of the novel is the character of Boo Radley. The Finches’ neighbour, Boo, was depicted as an elusive person. He hardly went outside or socialized with others, due to his violent nature. Scout had hardly any real contact with him until the end of the novel. All of the knowledge Scout knew of Boo was either from “…neighbourhood legend” (pg. 10), or Jem, who had “…received most of his information from Miss Stephanie Crawford” (pg. 11-12). By getting her information from different sources and telling it to the reader, Scout