Growing from a little toddler to a mature adult brings many changes. As a child grows, they begin to notice how the real world works, that life is not always fair, and that people are not always like they seem to be. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee presents Scout’s and Jem’s Coming of Age experience. She descriptively shows how there can be such change in a child. There are many important lessons that are taught to Jem and Scout, but there is one that has an important effect on the children till the end. This significant lesson is being able to identify right from wrong. Throughout the book, this lesson is demonstrated, but more specifically, there is one scene where this lesson stands out the most. The mockingbird scene has a compelling meaning towards the lesson. The foreshadowing of the scene, in addition to the symbolism of the mockingbird, and the affecting character of Scout, add an important effect on the stimulating Coming of Age experience of Scout and Jem. …show more content…
In chapter ten of To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus and Miss Maudie say that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird because they are innocent and only sing sweet songs to them. This moment foreshadows what is going to happen later on in the book. Tom Robinson, an innocent man is being accused of something he is not guilty of. In chapter twenty, Scout and Jem realize that Tom is not guilty and that he was mistreated by the jury. This scene that happened a while after the mockingbird scene had the same moral Atticus and Miss Maudie were talking about. The moral or lesson is that it is a sin to kill or mistreat something or someone that is innocent. In this case, Tom Robinson should have been declared free and not