Similarities Between Birches And To Kill A Mockingbird

In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch begins her journey from childhood to her teen years. In her journey, we watch as she starts to learn to basic lessons of life and becomes more mature chapter by chapter. In the poem “Birches”, Robert Frost writes about the quiet Birch tree bowing In the breeze after an ice storm. He also describes how a young boy learned his life lessons from being a swinger of birches. These two literary works convey how every childhood is different, but the end result is almost always the same. Scout was 6 years old when the story began. Just like any 6 year old, her days included games with her brother Jem and waiting for her father Atticus to return home from work. Her and Atticus would read after dinner almost every night. When you live “too far from town to learn baseball” you have to come up with different ways to play. For the boy in “Birches” that was swinging from the birch trees in the woods. Scout was an interesting young lady going through her childhood phase. Just like the young boy from “Birches”, they each struggle to find things to keep themselves occupied.

The Radley house, just down the street from Scout’s, was the beginning of Scout’s curiosity and imagination. The stories she was told and the little things she didn’t see fed her curiosity during the whole story. The Radley’s are like the bent over birch trees for Frost. The curiosity of “some boy’s swinging trees” eats the man alive in the story and makes him think back to his own childhood. Scout’s curiosity ends with her in awkward situations. Like the time Atticus caught the three children; Scout, Jem, and Dill at the courthouse during Tom Robinson’s hearing. “ “Curiosity always kills the