Boo Radley has essentially been held prisoner by his religious zealot of a father since he was in his teens. Boo got in trouble with some other boys and was going to be sent to a reformatory, but Mr. Radley insisted on punishing Boo himself. When the story begins, Boo is in his early thirties and has not been seen in about 15 years, save the time he stabbed his father in the leg with a pair of scissors. So Boo has had no contact with the outside world since he was a teenager, and one could imagine what kind of effect that would have on a person.
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