This picture relates to the Radley house story to me. I’ve never read the book before, but there has to be two sides to every story, especially considering the fact that most of the stories were basically rumors. The left half of the picture represents what people have come to think of the Radley home (even though Boo Radley isn’t a girl). The left side looks almost like a ghost, and gives off a negative image. It doesn’t look very happy or pleasing. The right side of the picture, however, could represent a happier side of the story. After all, the Radleys never leave their house… just because they’re closed off from society doesn’t mean that they’re necessarily bad people (although that is implied).
The first thing I noticed about this post is its not a house. Thank god. You have a good point. It made me think about the other half of the story that we do not know. We don’t know that much about the Radley’s other than what people say about him. Everyone knows that gossip usually is not one hundred percent true. Most of the time they are false. Words get twisted around, one person makes an assumption and as it passes from person to person until it gets through the whole town, the first person that said it will have something different than what the last person that heard it said. Maybe the Radley’s aren’t so bad like you said. I think reading this changed my opinion on the Radley’s greatly and just leaves me questioning their motives for being secluded.