Essay On How Scout Mature In To Kill A Mockingbird

Mary Beth Danielson once said, “If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again”. This idea is shown many times throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, through the many experiences that the main characters go through. There are many things that Scout must learn to see through the hardship of the court case her dad called Atticus agrees to fight. A black man named Tom Robinson is accused of raping a 19 year old girl by her dad, called Bob Ewell. There are many other experiences that are eye opening to both Jem and Scout. In her novel, it shows the idea of growing into a more mature character and was mostly shown by the main character Scout. One of the most important experiences in the novel that helped Scout mature is the court case between a black and white man. Tom Robinson was found guilty because he was a black man, but he should have been innocent because of the evidence given by Atticus. During the case, Scout thought, “if her eye was beaten mostly on the left side of her face it would tend to show that a left-handed person did it” (Lee 238). This shows that she knows and comprehended what’s happened even though she’s younger than everyone else. She matured throughout the novel and at the beginning of the book she wouldn’t have thought this about the court case. Another factor that helped her mature during the court case was observing Jem and
There are many events or people that help her to mature which include the court case, Jem maturing, adult influences, and societies influences. People every day are maturing a little more and sometimes need to look around to see who is helping them to mature more responsible and aware, here were just a few of many that helped Scout mature from a young, sweet innocent girl to a more mature