Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, is set during the 1930's. Times were different back then; African Americans did not have the same rights as white Americans. The story revolves around a society in which African Americans were not given the same opportunities as whites and were looked upon as inferior. However, a man named Atticus Finch tries to reverse the attitude towards African Americans. One's actions can alter society's view of oneself.

Atticus was not the only one who's actions changed society's view of them. In Boo Radley's case, it was a lack of action that changed society's view due to the fact no one ever saw him; people would tend to just make stories up about him. As Boo was growing up Miss Maudie remembered him as a boy who "always spoke nicely to me, no matter what folks said he did. Spoke as nicely as...