To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee – Chapter 31 (Final Chapter)We have reached the end of a poignant story. Jem and Scout are safe at home following the harrowing events of the evening. Scout is so accustomed to Boo Radley’s absence that she doesn’t notice he is present until he coughs. She accompanies him to say goodnight to Jem who is peacefully sound asleep. Scout encourages Arthur to pet Jem, which he does, and escorts him home. Asking him to bend his arm, Scout slips her hand into the crook of his arm so that anyone spotting them would see
“Arthur Radley escorting me down the sidewalk, as any gentleman would do.” After reaching his doorstep, she never saw him again.
Scout’s story comes full circle as she recalls
“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.” As she turns to go home, Scout notices the 360 degree view she has of the neighborhood and flashbacks to all the escapades they have had over the course of the last few years. In the end
“Atticus was right. One time he said you never know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.” As she makes her way home, Scout realizes that she has matured a great deal in the last few days, even hours.
“I thought Jem and I would get grown, but there wasn’t much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra.” 
Upon returning home, Scout finds Atticus in Jem’s room and decides to stay up with him for a while. Atticus is reading
The Gray Ghost by Seckatary Hawkins. He is hesitant to read it out loud for fear it might scare Scout, especially after the evening’s drama. She surprises her father by telling him that neither she, nor Jem for that matter, were scared.
“Besides, nothin’s really scary, except in books.” When Atticus puts Scout to bed, she awakens to tell him she was listening to the entire story and sums up the message in TKAMB
–“An’ they chased him ‘n’ never could catch him ‘cause they didn’t know what he looked like, an’ Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . . .” Atticus replies “Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”In effect, Boo Radley is "The Gray Ghost," who once noticed and understood, is just a normal person, and nice to boot. He tried to befriend the children in his own way and protected them in their time of need. Had Scout and Jem truly not given Boo Radley nothing in return for his gifts? Was not the quiet interaction with the children gift enough? Without their obsession with him, would he have even existed in the eyes of anyone?
(BTW,
The Gray Ghost is a children’s novel written by Robert F. Schulkers. Seckatary Hawkins is the fictional lead character in the series. Seckatary Hawkins's The Gray Ghost book, and Stoner's Boy are frequently quoted references within TKAMB.)
THANK YOU for summarising the end of this book so beautifully Lady Jane... 
