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He runs away to the Finches because he feels more welcome there than he does at home. Dill himself is very lonely: his mother is divorced and remarries sometime before the novel’s third summer, and now Dill’s parents don’t want much to do with him. In the year that follows, Dill begins to suspect that Boo is really very lonely and doesn’t have any friends. Dill begins to show that he’s sensitive and compassionate, however, when he decides that they need to give Boo a note asking him to come out and sit with them and offering to buy him an ice cream. He prefers his own stories to reality, hence his fascination with the Radley Place and with making Boo Radley come out of the house-the thought that Boo feeds on cats and might be dead piques Dill’s interest, which leads to all manner of shenanigans that, in retrospect, Scout realizes were extremely rude. In his play dramas with Jem and Scout, Dill plays all manner of characters but truly excels at portraying villains. Dill comes to stay with Miss Rachel in Maycomb one summer and immediately shows that he’s a prolific liar and storyteller. Jem and Scout’s friend and Miss Rachel’s nephew.
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