Examples Of Maturity In To Kill A Mockingbird

It’s interesting to see the ways different authors depict how a character matures. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird we can easily see how she chose to do it. The novel is set in Alabama in the 1930’s, while black vs. white racism was a big issue and problem for many. Atticus is the father of Scout and Jem, young children who witness the discrimination first hand when their father, a white man, defends a black man in court. Lee does a great job developing the characters; especially the narrator, Jean Louise Finch (Scout). Scout’s thoughts, conversations, and actions, illustrate that she’s emotionally maturing from the innocent child that she was.

Since the first spark of human life, coming-of-age has even occurred at the time of Adam and Eve. Many people think that the only part of maturing is puberty. However, one of the greatest parts of growing up is not, surprisingly, going through puberty. Coming-of-age involves recognizing different perspectives.

As people grow in life, they mature and change. In the novel , To Kill a Mockingbird ,by Harper Lee, Scout, the main character, matures as the book continues. Slowly but surely, Scout learns to control her explosive temper, to refrain from fistfights, and to respect Calpurnia, their maid, and to really learn her value to the family. Scout simply changes because she matures, and she also changes because Atticus, her father, asks her to.

Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, many characters develop and mature in unique ways. Boo, who fears talking to others, Aunt Alexandra, who is against people of other races or social classes, and Scout, who is young and is not aware of life’s challenges, constantly suppress their emotions and personality. Their life choices and decisions that they make throughout the book, lead them to be more accepting of others and less prejudice. As the book progresses, Boo, Aunt Alexandra, and Scout learn life lessons and develop into mature adults.

As people get older they go through experiences in their life that can change them in bad ways or most of the time change them in good ways.This good change occurs usually by the experiences teaching them important lessons they should know in life.These changes are very important in ones life because it matures them into an adult. This transformation happens to certain characters in every novel and it is called coming of age. In the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, both Jem and Scout go through this coming of age and learn what it means to be courageous, the unfairness of the world, and to look at other people's perspective before judging them.

In ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ written by Harper Lee, the author has used numerous different methods to portray the themes of innocence, maturity and growing up. These themes were put in so that the audience could become more empathetic towards the characters, especially the protagonists. She depicts these themes through characters, events, using symbolism, imagery and contrast located throughout the book.

“I think there are just one type of folks. Folks”(231). Scout, an eight-year-old girl filled with curiosity, innocence, and an open mind, says this with her own perspective. Harper Lee portrays her views through Scout, who did not yet experience the world and believes that each person, regardless of their character, race, or class, has the right to be treated equally amongst all. This does not occur in the town she lives in, Maycomb, and although she thinks that everyone is equal, her journey in life makes her realize that this is not true. Without noticing, Scout with her brother Jem, and a close friend, Dill develop major modifications in the ideals, and actions of others. To Kill a Mockingbird displays the relationship between the African American and white race and how it shifts because of various incidents. Affected by racial discrimination, Maycomb’s society faces controversies after turmoil arises. Change is developed in Maycomb’s orderly society because of Dill, Jem, and Scout acting upon their thoughts, creating chaos.

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee includes many coming of age moments. For example, I chose the part where Scout walks Boo home. Scout is the narrator of the book and Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley accompanies her in this scene. This is a coming of age example because near the end, Scout talks about how she felt she’d already learned what she needed to be an adult. Today I’ll be talking about literary elements in this passage.

Literary elements take up substantial fragments in stories today. In the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird”, there is a young boy named Jem Finch and throughout the story, you start to realise that he’s growing up, not physically, but mentally, we call that ‘the coming of age’. Jem’s coming of age experience is developed at Mrs.Dubose’s (a bad tempered old lady) house through conflict, irony, and symbol.

Scout is more able to help and be kind and compassionate because she is conscious of an emotional connection to them. Scouts experiences with Boo Radley taught her emotional empathy and the ability of compassion. Jean Louis Finches understanding of of compassion is even further

In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout proves empathy is an important characteristic. In the book, Scout demonstrates the consideration and understanding for others when she helps Boo Radley. Later, Scout learns empathy from her father Atticus, who in an unjust, racist environment takes on the strenuous task of defending Tom Robinson, a colored man accused of sexual assaulting a white woman. Ultimately,as scout matures and her empathy begins to develop, she becomes a courageous , mature person.

In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, compassion is expressed a lot by many characters, in many different ways. Whether it's telling Scout a life lesson or defending someone in court, or treating other as you’d want to be treated, compassion is in your everyday life. Scout learning a life lesson happens quite a bit in this book. She learns these lesson from her teachers, her father (Atticus), her brother and family friends.

In the book to To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a young girl is being put through a variety of challenges that have set her up to learn about aspects of life. Scout, the young girl is being put through situations throughout the book, and is going through different moral developments that have been set up into three levels by Kohlberg, a psychologist. Kohlberg gathered this information by giving people of different ages, different questions that would identify their moral stage (“Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development”). For example, some of the questions would be; if you were trapped in a room full of innocent people and someone dying would be the only way to save everyone else in the room would you risk yourself? On that

Everybody should be treated equal. In To Kill a Mockingbird, people do not treat Tom Robinson with equality. Just because Tom Robinson is black, the white people will automatically assume he is guilty. Although, some people such as Jem, Scout, and Atticus think otherwise. Harper Lee is the author of this novel. In this book, Lee gives a clear message: do not judge a book by its cover. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout transforms from childish to understanding primarily due to Boo Radley killing Bob Ewell and the lessons learned from her aunt.

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird two of the main characters, Scout and Jem, learn a lot from their father, Atticus, through his words and actions. Scout and Jem mature greatly as the novel progresses which is a result of their experiences and Atticus’ lessons. Numerous people in the novel such as Boo Radley, Mrs. Dubose and Walter Cunningham are misunderstood by the children but are later understood due to Atticus’ lessons. The most important lesson that Atticus teaches his children and therefore us is you never really understand a person until you can consider things from their point of view… until you crawl into their skin and walk around in it.