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What are some quotes that depict Boo Radley and Tom Robinson as innocent, good individuals throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?

In Chapter 5, Scout asks Miss Maudie if she believes the rumors about Boo Radley. Maudie tells Scout that whatever Stephanie Crawford says is false and comments,


"I remember Arthur Radley when he was a boy. He always spoke nicely to me, no matter what folks said he did. Spoke as nicely as he knew how" (Lee 29).


In Chapter 30, Heck Tate comments on Boo Radley's heroics, as well as his innocenceby...

In Chapter 5, Scout asks Miss Maudie if she believes the rumors about Boo Radley. Maudie tells Scout that whatever Stephanie Crawford says is false and comments,



"I remember Arthur Radley when he was a boy. He always spoke nicely to me, no matter what folks said he did. Spoke as nicely as he knew how" (Lee 29).



In Chapter 30, Heck Tate comments on Boo Radley's heroics, as well as his innocence by telling Atticus,



"I never heard tell that it's against the law for a citizen to do his utmost to prevent a crime from being committed, which is exactly what he did, but maybe you'll say it's my duty to tell the town all about it and not hush it up. Know what'd happen then? All the ladies in Maycomb includin' my wife'd be knocking on his door bringing angel food cakes. To my way of thinkin', Mr. Finch, taking the one man's who's done you and this town a great service an' draggin' him with his shy ways into the limelight---to me, that's a sin. It's a sin and I'm not about to have it on my head" (Lee 169).



Sheriff Tate mentions that Boo Radley did his utmost to prevent a crime which depicts Boo's morally upright character. He also comments on Boo's "shy ways" which illustrates Boo's innocence.


In Chapter 9, Scout asks Atticus why Cecil Jacobs said that he defended niggers. Atticus explains to Scout that he is defending a Negro named Tom Robinson and mentions that Tom is a good man. Atticus goes on to say,



"He's a member of Calpurnia's church, and Cal knows his family well. She says they're clean-living folks" (Lee 48).



After Tom is convicted and dies while attempting to escape from prison, Mr. Underwood writes an editorial which depicts Tom's innocence. Scout mentions,



"Mr. Underwood simply figured it was a sin to kill cripples, be they standing, sitting, or escaping. He likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children, and Maycomb felt he was trying to write an article poetical enough to be printed in The Montgomery Advertiser" (pg 241).


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