Essay On How Scout Mature In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout matures greatly throughout the novel, and her innocent nature is lost as she realizes how brutal and malicious people can be. Scout matures greatly with the help of other characters throughout the course of this novel . An example of Scout’s maturing, is when she loses her temper, and she no longer fights the people who have made her mad. At the beginning of the novel Scout would get into physical fights with the people that she got into disagreements with, but towards the end of the novel she tried to see the situation from the other person's point of view. Atticus, her father, told her “You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view...until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”(39) This is Atticus’s word of advice after Scout told him about the tussle that she got in with …show more content…

Before Scout started school she was excited and ready to learn, but when she got to school and started realizing that she was the only one who knew how to read and write she decided it wasn’t all that it seemed to be. Scout pestered Atticus about letting her skip school and would say that it is unfair that the Ewell’s only had to come to the first day. Atticus then explained to her that “...the Ewells had been the disgrace of Maycomb for three generations...they were people but they lived like animals.”(40) he also told Scout “They can go to school anytime they want to, when they show the faintest symptom of wanting an education.”(40) The Finch family name is respected and they would never act in the way the Ewells do. This means that Scout has to go to school to get an education because it will

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