Scout's Coming-Of-Age

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.

When people grow up, they learn more about love, society, and how to see from other people's point of view.

The Prince of Los Cocuyos certainly touches upon the topic of “Coming of Age”. Everyone experiences it at some point of his or her life. “Coming of Age” is the transition from one’s childhood to adulthood. While this transition is taking place, one gains more responsibility and privileges. It may affect a person both, physically and emotionally. Everyone experiences it differently. During this transition, you develop as a human being.

From this view, Scout is able to visualize herself from this perspective, and finally comes to the realization of who Boo really is. The story tells, “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough,” (374). Scout development is evident in this quote because it is an example of how not only does Scout change, but she also realizes her faults from before, confirming her conquering of her past, less developed

Having realizations is important for human beings, it helps us mature. It is common to see this in Coming of Age stories. It helps the main character in stories develop. In Coming Of Age Stories, the main character goes through realizations, making them mature mentally.

Coming of age is defined as the transition from one’s youth to his or her adulthood. Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, and Lord of the Flies by William Golding all explore this concept. Romeo and Juliet is a story about two star-crossed lovers in the depths of forbidden love despite an ancient family feud. House on Mango Street is a series of vignettes about a young Latina girl’s life growing up in Chicago. Lastly, Lord of the Flies is about a group of abandoned children who work to survive on a deserted island. Each of these stories provides details as to what characteristics define a mature individual, and they also show the various processes to achieve this maturity.

Jean Louise “Scout” Finch has an evolution of character when certain conflicts and realizations lead her to change throughout the novel. At first, Scout is innocent, thinking that her home, Maycomb County and the people in it, are going to be the same as they were close to twenty years ago. Scout is a smart girl, young and confident, she does not worry about what she’s wearing or what others think of her. Scout wears clothing that her aunt and the people of Maycomb wouldn’t accept, “I do wish this time you’d try to dress better when you’re home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are-ah-slumming.” (Lee 21). Aunt Alexandra has told Scout many times that she should not dress the way she does but Scout doesn’t listen.

Maturity is not a quality you see everyday from children. Most of the time children are running around playing with friends and family, asking silly questions, and even fulfilling their imaginations. This is the case for Scout and Jem too, initially at least. Scout is the son of Atticus Finch, a lawyer in Maycomb, Alabama. Scout’s brother is Jem and they have a fairly close relationship. In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee Scout and Jem endure and encounter many life-changing events that cause them to mature, from experiencing racism and almost being killed to witnessing their father defend a black man accused of rape in the South during the early to mid 1900s. The theme of maturation significantly applies to the novel as Scout

When coming-of-age a person will be continually experiencing, and learning new things. As this happens that person will develop and gain new perspectives on life and the world around them. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is found gaining new perspectives while she comes-of-age. In David Dobbs’ article “Beautiful Brains”, he shows and explains how gaining new perspectives is a part of coming-of-age. Developing different perspectives is really what coming-of-age is all about. It causes an individual to see the world in a new light, which widens their knowledge and helps them to fully come-of-age and grow

As girls grow in life, they mature and change into women. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Scout, the main character, begins to mature into a woman. In the beginning of the book, she is a tomboy who cannot wait to pick a fistfight with anyone, but at the end, she lowers her fists because her father, Atticus, tells her not to fight. Scout's views of womanhood, influenced by how Aunt Alexandra, Miss Maudie, and Calpurnia act, make her think more about becoming a woman and less of a tomboy.

When Scout finished escorting Boo back home, she observes, “I turned to go home. Street lights winked down the street all the way to town. I had never seen the neighborhood in this angle. There was Miss Maudie’s, Miss Stephanie’s-there was our house, I could see the porch swing…” (373). Here, Scout first imagines a different person’s perspective, as she gazed around the neighborhood as if she had seen it for the first time in a long time. As Scout then imagined how the neighborhood would have looked from the Radley Yard, “Winter, and a man walked into a street, dropped his glasses, and shot a dog. Summer, and he watched his children’s heart break. Autumn again, and Boo’s children needed him” ( 374). Scout was able to envision how Boo saw the neighborhood as the seasons pass in this coming of age scene in which Scout clearly realizes how it felt to be Boo Radley, and how it was different than the rumors led to believe. After Scout meets Boo Radley, Harper lee is able to use this scene to convey Boo’s character with his

To me “coming of age” means that you’re becoming more of an adult. Some examples of coming of age is doing “adult like” things such as sexual intercorse and things like that. Coming of age doesn’t mean it’s always gonna be “adult like” things. Coming of age could also mean graduating high school or graduating college. Some other examples of “coming of age” are drinking, smoking, and driving. From the movie moonrise kingdom, some coming of age moments was when suzy and sam (two main characters) first escaped to see each other, then suzys family found out she escaped and they instantly knew she was with sam, so she called the summer camp that sam was staying at, because he didn’t have a “real” family because sam’s real family died, but because

Coming of age is growth to adulthood. When we are babies we have little to no memory of it, there is a little amount of thought process, therefore you do not know what stuff means. You start to become a child when you start going to school, learning new things, talking to new people and experiencing; yet the mind is still simplistic, you don't worry about anything besides what new toy you gotta get. You start to become a teenager around the end of middle school and high school, you learn about new things, but then you have to worry about almost everything, your grades, school work, work, what you’re gonna be and do when you’re older, money, college, etc.. Adulthood starts when you are living alone, when you’re more dependent on yourself, you

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is one of the main characters and the narrator. During the time the book begins, she is a little 6 year-old girl who is mature for her age, and she continues to mature as the book progresses. Over the course of the novel, Scout develops an exceptional character which is constantly changing from the effects of different events and characters. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee uses the minor characters Boo Radley, Miss Maudie, and Aunt Alexandra to help develop Scout into a strong and compassionate human being from the innocent child she used to be.

Last, the stage of adult-hood is a rather fixed idea on worldview, yet still influential. For instance, a young adult is more open to new knowledge than older adults. Specifically, older adults fill their knowledge systems with information that backs their worldview and discard of information that does not. As an example, and adult who watches FOX news because they agree with the stories presented, yet turns the TV off when CNN is on because they do not like CNN, is further adding to the truths of their worldview and rejecting others. Although, most adult’s worldview is established at this stage, it can alter due to factors such as: changes worldview’s of their peers or experiencing a life changing event.