To Kill A Mockingbird: Essay The strange and mysterious Radley home evoked fear in the children of Macomb. The Radley home was tall, set back on a dark lot where shutters flapped on the windows, withholding secrets to the Radley'’ lives which left the people of Macomb to their wild imaginations which started gossip and rumours about the Radleys’ lives. “Boo Radley” and the details Harper Lee includes about the Radley home put the reader …showed first 75 words of 561 total…

…showed last 75 words of 561 total…risking her life. The children were possibly afraid of the creature believed to live inside, or that the house had its own dreary personality itself. In conclusion to my thesis, the Radley home truly wasn’t a place to fear, but the children’s wild imaginations with the aid of small town gossip, allows it to be the “talk of the town” and truly something to enlighten their lives with suspense, fear, and mild enjoyment.