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Examples Of Coming Of Age In To Kill A Mockingbird

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A Peregrination of Maturity throughout One’s Childhood in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird According to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, “a majority of Americans (57%) say they only know some of their neighbors.” In the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Scout, the main character, is a young 6-year-old girl who always heard rumors about Arthur “Boo” Radley her neighbor. She heard things like Boo was dead or Boo had stabbed his father with a pair of scissors. Scout really wanted to know her neighbor this leads to throughout the novel Scout to learns more about Boo; this then opens her eyes to a new version of Boo. Someone was mysteriously leaving gifts which leaves readers to infer that Boo was the one leaving the gifts. At the end of the story Boo is the one that saves Scout’s brother from potential death. Thus, becoming a coming-of-age moment throughout the entirety of the story. Coming of age is the development of a character or characters through multiple events that outline them maturing throughout their lifetime. This is usually from childhood to adulthood. Coming of age can be internal and or external; plus it really shapes a character or person into being a new version of themselves. Now coming of age relates to “To Kill a Mockingbird” …show more content…

Scout was once afraid of Arthur Radley and thought he was a scary man but through experiences that were her “coming of age moments” she faces such as trying to make Boo Radley come out to eventually receiving gifts from him and having her brother’s life saved by him, she realizes

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In To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, the novel follows the life of the main character, Scout, from ages six to eight. In the book, Scout and her brother, Jem, initially have strange beliefs regarding the mysterious Arthur "Boo" Radley. But, due to various events; that takes place in Jem and Scout's lives, the siblings' beliefs have changed. Scout and Jem's moderately firm ideas of Boo Radley in earlier chapters have come; to deeply contrast their current viewpoints of him.

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Scout's growing understanding and acceptance of the people in her community, flaws and all, is one of the most significant ways she demonstrates tolerance. Scout, for example, is terrified of Arthur "Boo" Radley at first and believes the rumors that he is a "monster”. However, as she learns more about him and his situation, she starts to see him as a human being and develops empathy for him. This is demonstrated when Scout says "I was too old and too big for such childish things, but I knew that Jem's ideas about Arthur Radley were, to him, as real as the things he could see" (Chapter 6). This shows that Scout is growing in her understanding of people and her ability to empathize with them.

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In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scouts changing perspective of Arthur ‘Boo’ Radley represents a coming of age moment because it demonstrates a breaking away from the childlike imagination that had previously explained all of their questions and superstitions about the Radley’s. A coming-of-age moment is the transition of thinking that occurs when someone learns empathy. At the start of the novel, in many situations, Scout and Jem demonstrate childish behavior and thinking when Jem is taunted into touching the side of the Radley home by Scout and Dill. The book reads, “Jem threw open the gate and sped to the side of the house, slapped it with his palm and ran back past us” (18). From this portion of the novel we can tell that Jem and Scout clearly regarded the Radley home and its occupants with novelty and even fear.

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