My Boo Radley

When I had just turned four I wondered, who is this person that comes and goes from the end of our driveway? As I woke up in the morning some days I would look out the window at this car go by and a man would get out and put papers in a box held up by a stick on the end of the driveway. I did not want to ask anyone about the figure because I was so afraid of him. At that age I was really unaware of how harmless he was, so all I could really do is wonder and be intimidated and terrified of him.This may be something that alot of kids probably already knew at that age but this is the only thing that I could think of in my childhood that was at all similiar to this prompt.

Similar to Scout's experiences, I would always run to the end of the driveway when he had gone and check to see what he had left me I would consistently get papers, ads, magazines, and bills and I was so confused as to why he was giving these things to me. This went on for a couple of weeks, but like scout my Boo Radley left things for me, I was unsure of him, and in a big way I was intimidated by him. There were a couple times though that my mom would go out to the end of the road and he would just hand her the mail and at that point I thought of my mom as a brave person. When my mom came inside sometimes she would be upset, not too much to throw something but not too little to not notice she would be looking at a page and shaking her head in a negative way (bills) and I didn't find that one out until later on.

At the end of the story Scout finds out that Boo is really in fact harmless when he saves her. In fact, I was saved by my mailman when I got angry with my mom one day and decided to pack up my little suitcase that had a rugrat(dill) on it and walk to the end of our street and when I went out to walk into the road a car was coming and the mailman stopped it and told me to watch out. Bythis time my mom was running down the end of the street and I was mortified so
I clung to my mom as she thanked him and she told me to thank him, so I did and immediately felt a rush of relief. From that day on I was never startled by him ever again, and I started meeting him at the edge of the driveway for our mail.