The quote in question is actually only said by Dill in the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robet Mulligan in 1962. In Harper Lee's actual book, Dill is only obsessed with wanting to see what Arthur (Boo) Radley looks like, not with the sordid rumors of his past.Author Harper Lee begins to depict Dill's obsession with Arthur Radley in the very first chapter. Dill begins hugging the...
The quote in question is actually only said by Dill in the film version of To Kill a Mockingbird, directed by Robet Mulligan in 1962. In Harper Lee's actual book, Dill is only obsessed with wanting to see what Arthur (Boo) Radley looks like, not with the sordid rumors of his past.
Author Harper Lee begins to depict Dill's obsession with Arthur Radley in the very first chapter. Dill begins hugging the lamppost just outside the Radley gate, standing there and staring at the property, wondering. The more Jem and Scout tell Dill about Arthur, the more Dill hugs the lamppost, wondering. At one point Jem makes up myths about Arthur's appearance, such as Arthur being "six-and-a-half feet tall" and having a "jagged scar that ran across his face." It's at this point that Dill articulates exactly what he has been wondering as he hugs the lamppost and stares:
Let's try to make him come out ... I'd like to see what he looks like. (Ch. 1)
Dill's desire to see what Arthur looks like leads him and Jem to make up the game mocking Arthur's life based on rumors, as well as to the adventure of Dill and Jem trying to get a glimpse of Arthur through a window, which leads to shots being fired and Jem losing his pants.
However, by the next summer, Scout tells Dill the story of Arthur leaving gifts for the children in the knothole of an oak tree on the Radley lot, and Dill loses all interest in his obsession with Boo Radley. The obsession is replaced with the intrigue of Tom Robinson's trial.
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