MY Boo Radley!!!

This was a very hard assignment to think of. There are so many Boo Radleys in this world but the one that is the most prominent in my life right now is death. Death is an unknown fear of mine just like Boo Radley was an unknown fear to Scout. You might come close to knocking on deaths door but you never really do, instead it will find you when the time is right! The thing about death is that you are totally unsure of it. In the back of my mind I feel like death will never come to me. That something will happen, that I'll live forever. Scout was told that Boo Radley was alive but in the back of her mind she felt that maybe he was dead. Just like Scouts perception of Boo Radley is shaped by what others tell her, death is to. I mean none of us truly know about death. We know something happens that makes the person motionless, yet few of us know what actually happens. Do you go to heaven, or hell? Is God really up there? Death is life's greatest mystery.

Death is the one thing I think most people fear most, only because it is the one thing they know least about. Most people say they are scared of spiders, guns, murderous people but all this leads back to death. Why are people scared of spiders? People are scared of spiders because a lot of spiders are poisonous and they don't want to be poisoned which can ultimately lead to death. The other thing people fear most is pain. Death can be very painful, all this is really going in circles.

Dose life go around and around? If I die tomorrow will I come back the next day? Is life ever going? Are some people "older" and some "Younger"? Have some traveled the earth more? Are there ghosts? All these are unknown questions that in my mind really need answers. Scouts situation was very similar. She had all these questions about Boo Radley. Was he crazy? What did he do inside all day? What did he look like? These were unknown to her and that made it scary.

The most mind bending question about death that will forever be unanswered in my human mind is: when will I die? It is such an unknown concept and when I try to grasp this concept I feel as though I am blind. It is like staring into pitch blackness. You don't know and you never will. Scout knocked on Boo Radleys door a few times in hope of finding an answer to her questions but never could proceed to go all the way into the house. I feel this way a lot. I think about death a lot, "looked at the house", but have never "knocked on the door" or attempted to "go into the house." Some physics or more spiritually enlightened people have "knocked on the door" and have a better grasp on what is inside, perhaps by looking through the windows or just getting a feel from the houses aura, but noone who is alive(that I know of) have ever actually been inside the house. Death for me is a little more serious because there is no way of knowing. For Scout, however, she could've answered the question if she had've had the courage. She eventually got to know. Her questions were answered.

Death is an interesting topic because there are so many different idea's of what is going to happen and where you are going to go. Some out there think they're sure of what is going to happen. They think they know exactly where they're going to go. But many, like me, are unsure. They leave it to fate and let things flow because they have no other option. There were many different opinions in Maycomb about Boo Radley as well. Some thought he was best to be left alone, "let things flow." While some wanted to find things out and to get answers. Others already thought they knew, "They were sure of what was happening in that household." The truth is the world will never come to a consensus, people will always have different opinions and ideas. Death will never be answered completely as a whole for the world.  Lucky for Scout her mystery was solved, maybe mine will be too, but I doubt it, instead I think death will always be a mind twisting, contorting, adventurous, unexplainable thing for me.