In , page
24, Miss Maudie tellsthat the reason that , or Arthur Radley (as she insists Scout calls him),
stays at home is that his father was a foot-washing baptist. According to Miss Maudie,
"foot-washers believe anything that is a pleasure is a sin." She even says that some
of them told her that "my flowers were going to hell." They thought that Miss Maudie
was committing a sin because she spent more time admiring and sitting in her garden than staying
inside reading the Bible.
From this perspective, it is no wonder that Boo
Radley stays in his house. He has grown up to believe that he should take the Bible literally.
According to Miss Maudie, foot-washers believe that even women are a sin.
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