In chapter 8 or so of To Kill a Mockingbird, Miss Mausie'd house burns down. Scout and Jem are standing out on the side walk of their street watching the commotion. When the two go back inside of their own house, one of them notice that Scout has a cover over her. Her father, Atticus says, " I thought I told you to stay put."
" Why, we did. We stayed-"
" Then whose blanket is that?"
"Blanket?"
"Yes ma'am, blanket. It isn't ours (p. 71)."
Right here nobody knows who's blanket it is and where it came from. So, Jem comes out with the idea of it being Boo Radley's. He says that he crept up behend Scout when they weren't looking and covered her up.
In my opinion, I think that this whole blanket thing is a figment of Scout and Jem's imaginations. I think that they are so scared of the Boo Radley stories, that whenever something weird happens they blame it on Boo. But they are little kids so maybe its just a way with dealing with their fears. Blame them on something else.
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That wouldn't make sense....
They wouldn't blame him for giving her a blanket ...
That would be a GOOD thing..
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I had not thought of it that way Brassy. It is an interesting point of view for sure, but the fact that Atticus is involved has to make me think that there is something more to it. I am starting to wonder if he is even important though. Maybe he is simply used to show how easily people judge others for things that are out of their control. It could even just be used to illustrate the immature age that Jem and Scout are in at the moment.
Well I'm pretty sure that if this blanket was a figment of Jem and Scout's imagination, that their father would not have been able to see it, so I'm pretty sure that they actually did have a blanket, and I also think that it was Boo Radley who gave her the blanket. It just seems very possible that it was him.
Yeah i agree with keys. If they had gotten a blanket from him, they wouldn't have been scared of him anymore. I'm sure they would've thought we has nice and they wouldn't have been afraid of him anymore.
Who even says Boo gave them the blanket though....
you know what they say about making assumptions...
Well I guess that the blanket might be a "figment of their imagination". I didn't see that way. But I like your point of view good thinking. :)
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