At the beginning of the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Jem and Scouts relationship with Boo Radley wasn’t really a relationship at all. Jem and Scout were afraid of Boo and Boo didn’t associate with them. The point in the novel where the relationship between the children and Boo began to form, was when Boo started to leave little gifts in the knot of the tree that Jem and Scout always passed. This was the start of their relationship, as Boo had started to take a curiosity in the children, just as the children had taken a curiosity in him. When Dill, Jem and Scout would play in the yard and reenact stories they had heard about Boo, they started to weave this horrible cruel person in their imaginations, so when Miss. Maudie's house fire occurred, and Boo put a blanket around Scout, Jem and Scout were horrified. After a certain point in the novel, Jem and Scout grew bored of their imaginings surrounding Boo, the reason they grew bored was because they were both growing older and less naïve and then the Tom Robinson trial occurred and life got a little harder for them, so by the time the trial had passed and Maycomb grew settled again, Jem and Scout had forgotten about Boo, until the night of the pageant when Bob Ewell attacked them. Boo was the one who killed Bob Ewell the night he attacked Jem and Scout. After the attack, Scout met Boo for the first time. It was at that moment that the relationship between Boo and the children changed into somewhat of a friendship. The children realized that Boo wasn’t so scary and Boo learned that he had two allies in Maycomb, and even if he didn’t come out of his house often, he knew that Jem and Scout would be waiting for him when he did.