To Kill a Mockingbird

At the end of the novel, Atticus reads to Scout as she drifts off to sleep. How does the topic of the story connect to one of this novel’s major themes?

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She falls asleep while Atticus reads to her, and wakes up while he carries her to bed. She tells him she was listening all the time, and that the book is about a character who was chased and caught and then found to be innocent and "real nice." Atticus tells her, "most people are, when you finally see them." Atticus then spends the rest of the night by Jem's side. That obviously directly relates to a major theme of the story.

Scout comes into Jem's room to find Atticus reading The Grey Ghost. She asks him to read ti her, and he starts from the begining. As he's reading to her, she drifts off. She wakes up when Atticus is carrying her to bed. When she tells him that she was indeed listening, and to prove it tells him that it's about a charactor who had been acused for something, chased around for a while, and when he was finally found, was totally innocent and "real nice". Atticus says that "Most people are, when you finally see them." It can be almost directly related to the theme of Boo Radley being quite innocent of most of what he was accused of. Like "being crazy", "eating raw cats", et cetra.