They were white hands, sickly white hands that had never seen the sun, so white they stood out garishly against the dull cream wall in the dim light of Jem's room.

They were white hands, sickly white hands that had never seen the sun, so white they stood out garishly against the dull cream wall in the dim light of Jem’s room.

– Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 29. How Scout describe Boo Radley when she meets him for the first time. His overall paleness speaks of all the time he has spent indoors, he is never seen outside his house until the end of the story.

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