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Essay On Loss Of Innocence In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Rough Draft #2 The fight against the soul and the mind often leads to misery. The struggle between holding onto childhood while becoming an adult can ruin someone in their most vulnerable time. Being raised in a corrupt world leads to a complete loss of innocence as shown through the tone and imagery of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. As a twelve year old, Jem Finch begins to see how crooked the justice system, he begins to “cry” and his face is “streaked with angry tears” because his father’s client, an innocent man, is charged guilty of rape merely because he is black (Lee 284). He is not mature enough yet to handle what he has come to realize about the world and how unfair and corrupt it is. Jem states that “we oughtta” get rid of “juries” (Lee 294). Jem tries to pull childhood logic into the real world, thinking that if juries are gone the whole problem is solved, even though it is not as simple as it seems. He learns too much about the world as he is still young and it is tearing him from his childhood. …show more content…

She knows she is “far too old and too big” to be fighting with the other children, but claims that they make her forget (Lee 99). Scout believes that there is “one kind of folks. Folks” (Lee 304). She is physically and mentally maturing, but not enough to know that in the grown world there are different types of people. She is still seeing the world through a child’s eyes where all people are the same no matter what they are doing or what they look like. Scout is being ripped from her childhood knowledge by being placed in an environment that has no problem making it clear that they don’t see eye to eye with

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