The chapter begins with Atticus rushing Scout out the door with her boots and coat on. As she opens the door she can not believe what she sees at Ms. Maudie's house...A huge fire has occurred and Scout and her brother Jem are right in front of it, watching the building slowly fall apart. It was about one A.M and they were both trembling in the cold night time. So much was going on in just one small moment, Scout, as everyone else, was so focused on the fire, she was attentive to what was going outside of the fire. When Scout wakes up she finds a blanket rapped around her and her father Atticus asks her who's it was and why it was rapped around her but Scout's mind was blind, she didn't even realize she had a blackness until Atticus pointed it out. She explains to her father that she had no clue as to who's it was, but suddenly Jem figures the mystery out and tells his family that it was Boo Radley. As Scout hears the words coming out of Jem's mouth, something else wants to come out of hers...Just the thought that Arthur (Boo Radley) was right behind her makes her sick to her stomach.
This small moment in the book hugely affects Boo's character. What Harper Lee was trying to was get the children of Maycomb County, and the reader, to think twice about Mr. Radley. Now Boo isn't the monster that lives next door anymore, but he isn't the nice man who lives next door either. The reason to this is because the kids have so many ideas in their head right now they don't know what to think and this is what they, and the reader as well, will figure out during the book.
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