In To Kill a Mockingbird, someone was leaving gifts for the children in a hole in a tree. Who was leaving the gifts, and why were they leaving them?

Boo Radley is the person who has been leaving little gifts for Scout and Jem in the knot of the old tree. Boo Radley has been shut away in his house for a very long time. He does not come out to socialize with people, and he has sort of become the neighborhood bogeyman. Scout and Jem tell imaginative stories about Boo and who he supposedly is and what he supposedly has done. Boo, of...

Boo Radley is the person who has been leaving little gifts for Scout and Jem in the knot of the old tree. Boo Radley has been shut away in his house for a very long time. He does not come out to socialize with people, and he has sort of become the neighborhood bogeyman. Scout and Jem tell imaginative stories about Boo and who he supposedly is and what he supposedly has done. Boo, of course, is nothing like the stories at all, and Scout and Jem will come to realize this by the end of the novel. Boo leaves the gifts in the tree because it is his way of reaching out to Scout and Jem and making friends. It's his way of sharing a little bit of himself with the other two children, so they won't be so frightened of him and his house.