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"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing" (23). :scout is faced with ignorance, racism, and disrespect, she will stand in the face of all of this. Scout has to step up and matures when she is forced to do so due to the trial, she is learning abundant knowledge from her superiors.
Over the three year lapse of To Kill A Mockingbird by. Harper Lee, scout has changed more than any character. After everybody found out that Atticus was defending a black person everybody started talking about it at school and she chose to not fight at school. “The school buzzed with talk about him defending Tom robinson, none of which was complimentary. After my bout with cecil jacobs when i committed …show more content…

"If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time... it's because he wants to stay inside" (304). Scout doesn't understand why people are cruel to each other when everyone is human. Also she's beginning to understand why boo stays inside his house. scout is better understanding maycomb, but she's creating more questions for herself. Scout did not mature on her own, she had the help of her father. "One time Atticus said you never really knew a man until you stood in his shoes and walked around in them" (374). Atticus tells her to put herself in place of who she is judging. Now scout is being more careful about who she judges and how. Scout is more wise and is becoming more mature and evolving. while scout is maturing she still has her faults. "Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts" (205) scout over exaggerates, that's why her father told her to delete the adjectives she it would be more accurate with the facts rather than her personal description. But scout is also learning from her mistakes. Scout is learning a lot from her experiences and is growing physically and

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