Chapter 14/15: Explain what Dill means in the last line of chapter 14. Is this surprising to you? (Tom)
What Dill means in the last line of chapter fourteen, “maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to…” (Lee 192) is that Boo (Arthur) Radley doesn’t run away because he knows that if he does, he wouldn’t be able to support himself. After Dill is found under Scout’s bed and is fed, Scout and Dill have a heart to heart talk about how Dill made his way to Maycomb. Then, the conversation turns to Boo Radley. Here, Harper Lee makes the connection between Dill and Boo. Both Dill and Boo live with a relative who supports them. The reason why this is not surprising to me is that, in his own way, Dill feels compassion for Boo. A good example of this is in the second to last line of the book, where Lee writes “Dill sighed a deep sigh and turned away from me” (Lee 192). What do you think about Dill’s compassion for Boo? Do you think Dill and Boo can relate to one another?
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