That’s right, sir.” I slipped my hand into the crook of his arm. Arthur, bend your arm down here, like that. I would lead him through our house, but I would never lead him home. I put my foot on the top step and stopped. “Will you take me home?” He almost whispered it, in the voice of a child afraid of the dark. He was still holding my hand and he gave no sign of letting me go. “I led him to the front porch, where his uneasy steps halted. Later, on page 278, Arthur Radley, or Boo Radley interacts with Scout, basically she’s empathetic to him. Scout tries to reassure Jem and makes him feel okay and safe. Thoughtfulness comes into play here when she tries to comfort jem. I reassured him: “Can’t anybody tell what you’re gonna do lest they live in the house with you, and even I can’t tell sometimes.” Can’t anybody tell what I’m gonna do lest they know me, can they, Scout?” Jem’s question was an appeal. “Like somebody was readin’ my mind … like somebody could tell what I was gonna do. It’s almost like-” “-somebody knew you were comin’ back for ’em.” Jem shuddered. Not like a lady sewed ’em, like somethin’ I’d try to do. “When I went back, they were folded across the fence … like they were expectin’ me.” “Across-” “And something else-” Jem’s voice was flat. When I went back-” Jem took a deep breath.
“There’s something I didn’t tell you.” As this was his first complete sentence in several days, I encouraged him: “About what?” “About that night.”… “When I went back for my breeches-they were all in a tangle when I was gettin’ out of ’em, I couldn’t get ’em loose. So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him… One afternoon when we were crossing the schoolyard toward home, Jem suddenly said:
SCOUT FINCH SKIN
I tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. We can see it in this passage from the book: These traits influence her relationships with others. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, the protagonist in To Kill a Mockingbird, has a few traits that influence her relationships with others.
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