To Kill A Mockingbird Growing Up Analysis

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Growing up, we learn many lessons in our life, and once we learn them, it seems we become just a little bit older. While I was reading To Kill A Mockingbird I noticed the theme of growing up shown several times. It was shown in times like when Tom Robinson went on trial, when Scout was teased because of that, when the kids were attacked, when Boo saves them, and many more. There’s only a few examples I’m going to share, so I guess you’ll just have to read the book to find out. While reading from Scout’s perspective you could really see the theme of growing up replayed over and over again, continually showing up. A good example of one of the major points of the book where Scout had to grow up was when her father was faced with the Tom Robinson trial. Right away, people openly criticized …show more content…

She had to learn from her father to not let them get to you and that everyone views things differently. Another part where she had to grow up in the trial was when Tom Robinson went to court. He was staged in front of a crowd as Atticus defended him for raping Mayella. Atticus proved to the court that Tom was innocent, and yet he was still found guilty. Scout had to watch this whole thing and learn that the world isn’t always what it seems. People favor whites and not even in the courtroom, where everyone is supposed to be equal, is a black man safe from a white man. Scout saw this and was forced to accept the fact that not everything would be fair. The last example of Scout growing up would be after she was attacked by Bob Ewell and saved by Boo Radley. As Scout was waking Boo Radley home, she started thinking about

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