Who Is Coming Of Age In To Kill A Mockingbird

Do others ever think how others feel before speaking? In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee explains how the color of your skin affected a person or favored a person. Harper Lee talks about a trail that took place with a black man named Tom Robinson, and a white young lady named Mayella Ewell. Tom Robinson was accused of rapping Mayella Ewell, because he was a black man he ended up losing the trial. Tom Robinson was sentenced to life prison, and later on was killed during one of his breaks.The message in this story is that people in our world are treated very different because of their color of their skin and can be accused of things for the way they look without knowing if they are innocent or guilty. Harper Lee utilizes the literary elements character, setting, and conflict to show the theme that when a person comes of age they start to realize their surroundings and feeling of others.
Harper Lee developed a point of view with the characterization of Scout. Scout is coming of age because she uses words instead of physical actions. Scout says, “You gonna take that back, boy?” Cecil Jacobs made me forget. He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch’s daddy defends
Scout notices all her surroundings and the feeling of Atticus and starts to come of age. Scout learns many new things that change her lifestyle. They change Scout’s lifestyle because her promised not to fist fight any of her classmates. Many of the problems in our world today are caused by others not realizing their surroundings and feelings of others. If everyone would treat everyone with respect and not judge them of their looks and treat them how they would like to be treated we would not have so much problems. Treating everyone with respect is the solution to many of our problems today in Earth