In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, maturity and learning are one of the more important and highly emphasized topics.
Scout, along with some others, undergo this change which the reader can identify multiple times during the story.
Although there were a couple of characters that matured and changed throughout the story, Scout is the person that showed the most dramatic change in her behavior, thinking, and actions.
The main character and narrator, Jean Louise Finch (referred throughout the novel as Scout), had a major change overall and matures in obvious ways as the novel progresses.
The novel started with out with portraying Scout as an innocent but intelligent girl who spends a lot of time with her inquisitive brother, Jem Finch. On the first day of school, Scout’s teacher,
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Another example that shows Scout’s level of maturity in the beginning of the novel is shown when Atticus explains to Scout that she should “just hold your [her] head high and keep those fists down” (Lee, 101) because she would pick fights with boys in her school.
In the starting parts of the book, Scout was intelligent yet insensible is some ways but still showed lots of signs of innocence.
Although Scout was innocent and quite knowledgeable in the section of To Kill a Mockingbird, there were a couple of moments where her level of maturity and understanding had clearly changed.
One of the defining moments occurred when Scout “walked away from a fight” (Lee, 102). Her main reason for displaying such maturity was that she thought “I [she] would let Atticus down” (Lee, 102).
That was the first time that Scout actually did something out of the norm for her and actually followed and understood the advice Atticus had given her.
The second noticeable behavior change came during the second missionary circle meeting with Aunt