Scout's Transformation In To Kill A Mockingbird
Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, Jem and Scout begin to mature along with standing up for themselves. Scout being both the narrator as well as the protagonist we hear what she conveys or thinks about almost all the events and conversations going on around her. Jem is Scout’s older Brother who seems to go through more of a drastic change than her. The two realize what is truly going on in the world around them and begin to learn how to react to certain situations and how not to react to others. As the novel goes on Lee continues to describe to the lives of the characters and show how both Jem and Scout do not need Atticus the children’s father, Mrs. Maudie the children’s neighbor, Calpurnia the family nanny,
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During the trial, more towards the end, the three children go outside the courthouse because Dill starts crying. This causes them to miss most of Mr. Gilmer’s cross-examination on Tom Robinson. When the children go outside they run into Mr. Dolphus Raymond resting against a tree. The children then begin to ask him questions about the trial not being able to understand why they treat Tom the way they do. “Things have not caught up with this one yet. Let him get a little older he won’t get sick and cry. Maybe things’ll strike him as being not quite right, say but he won’t cry, not when he gets a few years on him.’/ ‘Cry about what Mr. Raymond?’” (Lee 269). This is just the beginning of a short yet deep conversation that lead the children back into the courthouse with a better understanding of what is actually going on.
When reading To Kill a Mockingbird, it shows how fast children mature and begin to stand up for themselves. Sometimes the events around them force them to do so. This is partly the situation in To Kill a Mockingbird with the Finch children. As the two Finch children both grow, the racism in the small town of Maycomb becoming more and more prevalent to them each day. Also the Arthur Radley or “Boo” situation being more complex than what they originally thought. These two things seem to force the two children to mature to better understand what is going on in the world they live
During the trial, more towards the end, the three children go outside the courthouse because Dill starts crying. This causes them to miss most of Mr. Gilmer’s cross-examination on Tom Robinson. When the children go outside they run into Mr. Dolphus Raymond resting against a tree. The children then begin to ask him questions about the trial not being able to understand why they treat Tom the way they do. “Things have not caught up with this one yet. Let him get a little older he won’t get sick and cry. Maybe things’ll strike him as being not quite right, say but he won’t cry, not when he gets a few years on him.’/ ‘Cry about what Mr. Raymond?’” (Lee 269). This is just the beginning of a short yet deep conversation that lead the children back into the courthouse with a better understanding of what is actually going on.
When reading To Kill a Mockingbird, it shows how fast children mature and begin to stand up for themselves. Sometimes the events around them force them to do so. This is partly the situation in To Kill a Mockingbird with the Finch children. As the two Finch children both grow, the racism in the small town of Maycomb becoming more and more prevalent to them each day. Also the Arthur Radley or “Boo” situation being more complex than what they originally thought. These two things seem to force the two children to mature to better understand what is going on in the world they live