Innocence In To Kill A Mockingbird
The book To Kill a Mockingbird has many different themes. One that really stood out to me was Childhood Innocence, because the story is written from Scout’s point of view it portrays her childish and immature thoughts towards all of the events that happen in her life. Not only is Scout childish at times her brother Jem and her friend Dill also show irresponsible actions through the games they choose to play and the way they react to different things such as getting in trouble or just barely getting out of a tight spot. This analysis will go into depth of the continuous example of childhood innocence throughout the book.
One of the first obvious examples of Scout’s nonage is when she is sitting having dinner with her family and Walter Cunningham. …show more content…
Their game of playing the Radley household is definitely childish. Especially when the two boys devise a plan to send a note to Mr. Boo Radley, as usual they are caught by Atticus and are advised to stop playing the game. Atticus tells them to “stop tormenting the man”. Respectfully, the children change the names of the characters and continue playing their game. Dill shows his innocence through his yearning for attention. He doesn’t get hardly any absorption at home. So when he comes to Maycomb for the summer he tells lies even when he doesn’t need to. Scout knows that he could tell some “big ones”, but when she figures out that he passed around from one family member to the next she is very shocked. As dill gets older he doesn’t act out as much mainly because he is growing up and learning to deal with lack of attention. When scout was younger she had a bad problem with getting into fights with other kids, mainly because the kids at school would tease her about different things. The teasing only got worse when her father decided to defend a colored man accused of raping a girl. Later in the book Scout learns to control her urges to fight. One particular instance was when she was at finch’s landing a d she punched her cousin for calling her dad a name. She thought that if she used curse words she would feel grown up, that is until her uncle told her that he didn’t want to hear another word like that out of her
One of the first obvious examples of Scout’s nonage is when she is sitting having dinner with her family and Walter Cunningham. …show more content…
Their game of playing the Radley household is definitely childish. Especially when the two boys devise a plan to send a note to Mr. Boo Radley, as usual they are caught by Atticus and are advised to stop playing the game. Atticus tells them to “stop tormenting the man”. Respectfully, the children change the names of the characters and continue playing their game. Dill shows his innocence through his yearning for attention. He doesn’t get hardly any absorption at home. So when he comes to Maycomb for the summer he tells lies even when he doesn’t need to. Scout knows that he could tell some “big ones”, but when she figures out that he passed around from one family member to the next she is very shocked. As dill gets older he doesn’t act out as much mainly because he is growing up and learning to deal with lack of attention. When scout was younger she had a bad problem with getting into fights with other kids, mainly because the kids at school would tease her about different things. The teasing only got worse when her father decided to defend a colored man accused of raping a girl. Later in the book Scout learns to control her urges to fight. One particular instance was when she was at finch’s landing a d she punched her cousin for calling her dad a name. She thought that if she used curse words she would feel grown up, that is until her uncle told her that he didn’t want to hear another word like that out of her