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What Is Boo's Position In To Kill A Mockingbird

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After Scout escorts Boo back to his home, she pauses on the Radley porch and, remembering her father's advice about how "you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them," she looks out across her neighborhood. Standing on Boo's porch in Boo's shoes, Scout now sees her little world from Boo's eyes, as if it is he standing there (or peering through the window), watching the events of the past two years. She understands that Boo has probably seen much of the children's activities, and standing there she remembers them more vividly than ever before: running to meet Atticus, acting out the Radley Game, fighting on the sidewalk, finding gifts in the secret knothole, and watching Atticus kill the mad dog. But it is

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