As I read Scout's experiences in TKAM, I remembered some things that I have done as a small little child which I think is quite childish to me now. I remembered that I used to go down to the play ground and play a game my friends and I called 'mission'. I don't really remember what it was like, but what I know was that it was basically going around the area, not touching things of a certain colour, or only touching things of a certain colour, or, we might also be playing catching under a certain theme, like a murder, or theft and we would assume one of us to be the "bad guy". I remembered this as in TKAM, there was the scene where the three kids would act out some stories, and make stories about Boo Radley and act them out.
Analyzing Literature
1. The three of them tested their courage by trying to touch Boo's door. This tested their courage as they pictured Boo as a monster whom will kill them all if they got to near, and they would die if they touched Boo and a lot of stuff like that.
2. They find a sculpture of they themselves, and some bubble gum. Apparently whoever put things into the knothole knew that they were taking stuff from it and wanted to give them things. This was probably Boo as after a while Nathan Radley sealed up that tree. This shows that Boo wasn't the monster that everyone thought him to be. Also, during the fire, Boo had put a blanket on Scout. He had also found Jem's pants for him.
3.They had insulted her father as a nigger-lover. I can thus see that Maycomb is actually a very discriminative place, where Negros and everyone who did not hate them were outlawed and hated.
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