To Kill A Mockingbird Growing Up Analysis

Growing up should be fun but learning about the cruel realities of your society can be difficult. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, by harper lee, as scout grows up she sees the changes in her society, but those that affect her the most are community, parenting, role of women, and courage. Scout learns more and more about the world as she grows up and she starts to see the war between the blacks and the whites. Scout hears a lot of rumours about Boo Radley but never sees him. She knows how her society is bad from the day Tom Robinson’s trial and from all the rumours that were made of Boo Radley.
Scout changes, grows and matures throughout the novel to kill a mocking bird when she learns the truth about her society and the world she lives in. During the trial she notices how her community is unfair even at a place where there should only be complete honesty and fairness. While living with her Aunt Alexandra, she changes from being a tomboy to a girl that has respect for everyone. While growing
During the court trial, a guy named Mr. Link Deas stood up for Tom and defended him “I just want the whole lot of you to know one thing right now. That boy’s worked for me eight years an’ I ain’t had a speck o’trouble outa him. Not a speck” (Lee,195). Mr. Link Deas tried his best to help Atticus to prove the judge Bob Ewell was the real suspect, not Tom. Even though he got kicked out of the court, he had the courage to stand up for Tom in front of the crowd. Scout is brave and has courage for a lot of things. She is not scared to fight or do things that usually guys do. During this novel she changes and becomes someone else, but she still does have courage in her inner self. Scout was forced to being a girl, she did not want to do anything a girl does. During the novel, Scout was not afraid to dress up as a girl and give tea to all the ladies in the council. Scout had a lot of courage for doing this one little