Scout’s Maturity
Maturation is a stage of growth that we as human beings begin at
birth. “To Kill a Mockingbird” in Harper Lee shows Scouts growth as
she experiences and understands the prejudice of Maycomb. In the
beginning Scout is a naive little girl but as the story commences she
begins to understand what goes on in Maycomb and by the end she may
still be young but she has matured. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” author
suggests the actions we take lead us to become human beings and what
we have done and learned from it leads to mature beings.
In the beginning, Scout is an outsider, a tomboy who is not accepted
by her brother or his friend. She is known as “the girl” also she
announces that she is five years old but she tries her best to fit in
and play with he brother and Dill. Scout thinks of herself as an adult
in the beginning, like at when at school she thinks of herself and her
school mates as little adults, who must take care of the first year
teachers, this shows she is still small but is working her way to
adulthood. As the first part of the story progresses we learn another
quality which makes Scout immature; the fact that she can’t control
her anger. For example when Scout beat up her cousin, this shows she
needs to accept something’s and let them go because if she keeps
getting angry she is going to go on a rampage because in those days
bigotry existed and she has to get use to it.. Scout makes very little
progress in the first part of “To Kill a Mockingbird” but that doesn’t
mean she isn’t determined.
To fit in and feel as old as achievable is one of her true goals so
she does as much as she can do to fit in and act as old as possible.
One thing she does that is mature is she tries her b...
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...but in the beginning she made childish
accusations. As the story progressed she was shown the true colors of
people and understands how life is in Maycomb County, Alabama. Near
the end she makes better decisions and the ideas that come to her mind
make her seem more mature.
After Tom Robinson gets shot Scout matures into a woman mentally and
the court trial was the route that showed her the people and there
prejudice decisions from a girl to a man. In “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Harper Lee says that in life we encounter many situations that affect
us deeply but from the mistakes of others we learn valuable lessons.
Scouts maturation from a young girl to a young woman is a slow
alternation she made as she went through the tunnel and showed how she
matured. People far prefer belonging than wisdom, but that is like
wanting to be immortal without getting older.
be doing what she is now for the rest of her life, unless she would
First of all, I’d like to say sorry for all the things that Scout and I have done. We behaved badly by trying to make you come out of the house. Such as when we gave you a letter to let you know that we want you to go out of your house, even if you do not want to, but Atticus caught us, when I’m going to slip the paper in your window he took it from me and read it. He told me to stop bothering you because Atticus thought that we’re making fun of you, but we’re not, we just want you to go out and have fun with us.
The quote by Zora Neale Hurston, “There are years that ask questions and years that answer,” shows that coming of age is a tricky project that takes time and effort. In Harper Lee’s book To Kill a Mockingbird, she writes about Scout Finch, the narrator, reflecting on her past and the challenges she went through in her hometown, Maycomb, with her brother Jem and childhood friend Dill.. Harper Lee uses the young characters in the novel to show experiences, their role models, and conflict help shape a person from child to adult.
Scout is one of the central character’s in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Scout is a girl who slowly changes through the course of the book. Throughout the book, Lee describes the character of Scout as being tomboyish, innocent, and aggressive.
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years old, and that just may be the only time in her life in which she
However, she may be old as she is determined to get her last chance of
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