"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climbed in his skin and walk around in it.'' - Atticus Finch, "To Kill a Mockingbird" When Harper Lee wrote her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," she brilliantly conveyed the message of how important it is to see things from the perspective of others. Lee wanted us to see what it was like during the 1930s, writing the novel during the civil rights movement in 1960. Harper Lee showed us how wrong it was to treat the African Americans without respect and equality. There are numerous characters in the novel that are wrongly misunderstood in the novel such as Arthur "Boo" Radley, Mrs Dubose and Tom Robinson. Through the characters of Boo Radley, Mrs Dubose and Tom Robinson, we see how terrible it can be to be misunderstood. In the exposition of "To Kill a Mockingbird," Boo Radley was introduced as a "malevolent phantom." He was a mysterious man who was locked up in his house for fifteen years because he was too much of a rebel. In Maycomb, gossip can become a recreational sport, the major problem with gossip is that people did not have the time to stop and get their facts right and often passed on false information, which resulted in misunderstood people such as Boo Radley. In the novel Jem and Dill created an urban legend about Boo Radley. Boo was "six and a-half feet tall  and that he "dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch . However Boo was not like that at all in the novel, Boo was a kind and protective person who would leave gifts in the tree trunk for the children. In one of the crisis points, Miss Maudie's house was on fire and Scout was outside watching while standing in the cold. Boo has noticed Scout was freezing cold, so he came outside and covered Scout with a blanket and retreated back into his house. This shows that Boo Radley is not a monster or a threat to anyone, instead he symbolise as a "mockingbird." At o