Kill a Mockingbird by Harpee Lee‚ one of the main characters Jean Louise Finch‚ also known as scout; matures and grows up. Not only does she grow up but she gets to experience many different traumatic moments over the 3 year time frame in this book. She learns from mistakes she makes and from the people around her and most importantly Maycomb County‚ the town she lives in. Jean Louise Finch also known as “Scout” is a 6 year old girl who is a complete tomboy. She follows her 10 year old brother Jem almost
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Harris a seven year old boy‚ Scout Finch a six year old girl‚ and Jem Finch a 10 year old boy are all young characters in the novel To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee that show a large step of maturing and coming of age through all of their adventures and experiences from the beginning of the novel to the end. These three kids go through experiences that affect them for the rest if their lives and impacts the way look at life. The first character that matures and shows coming of age throughout
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As one becomes older‚ their perspective on the world changes. Throughout Harper Lee’s novel‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ the children Scout and Jem Finch mature and grow as people. During the Great Depression‚ the sleepy town of Maycomb County sees the trial and eventual unfair conviction of alleged African American rapist‚ Tom Robinson. In the beginning‚ Scout is shown to be childish‚ innocent‚ but very direct. As the book comes to an end‚ however‚ she develops a kinder‚ politer‚ more accepting personality
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For some people‚ maturing can be a hard concept. It takes a level of focus to become mature and to be capable of going through things that eare hard to overcome. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird‚ by Harper Lee‚ Scout shows that she is capable of becoming mature and overcoming everything that she faces. Over the book Scout faces being bullied because of her dad defending an African American person‚ going through the trial and losing‚ and almost getting killed by Bob. Also she faced something that
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situations that require them to mature. First‚ direct characterization involves with maturity by how wrong decisions was given at the beginning of the story and by overcoming those problems it helped mature those characters until the end of the story. For Example‚ In chapter 3 Walter was invited to the Finch’s house for supper and Scout asked him what he was doing when he placed molasses in his food and she gets in trouble for being rude to a guest(24). Scout didn’t know why she had got in trouble
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Harper Lee’s coming-of-age novel To Kill a Mockingbird explores the childhood adventures and findings of a youthful and curious child. The heroine‚ Scout Finch‚ starts out as a naive six-year-old tomboy but gradually matures and develops values as new discoveries are made. Together with her brother Jem Finch and her daring and inventive friend Dill‚ Scout enhances her understanding of the adult world and begins to lose her innocence through a series of events spanning over three years. To Kill a Mockingbird
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that expose the adolescents to mature life morals. She explains how the loss of innocence between the youth makes them recognize the problems that lie within society. Several of the characters are faced with the racial discrimination. Near the end of the book the author shows the children finally accepting others as they are not for whom they want them to be. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”‚ there are many influential figures that help Scout and Jem mature
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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
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The scene I have chosen that represents coming of age is the scene where Jem says no to his father for the first time‚ and where scout uses her brain and not violence. This scene uses tone‚ conflict‚ and character to show the coming of age of Jem‚ and Scout. It shows coming of age because they both become more mature and aware of their thoughts. First of all‚ an example of tone is from the film “To Kill A Mockingbird”. Jem says “no‚sir.” In a voice or tone that is very confident‚ and strong. Another
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this novel are maturing throughout the whole book. The three steps to becoming more mature is to pick a good role model to follow‚ think before you say anything‚ and lastly The first step on how to be mature is to first pick a good role model to follow. In the book Calpurnia was a very good role model for Scout. Not only did she teach Scout how to be respectful‚ and more ladylike‚ but Calpurnia was the closest Scout had to a mother since their own mother died when they were
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