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How Does Scout Mature In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Lots of people spend countless hours having fun and playing with pals. Some just have more time to frolic around than other. Harper Lee’s famous book, To Kill a Mockingbird, three young children, Dill Harris, and Scout and Jem Finch stalk their neighborhood, attempting to solve mysteries, standing up for black people, and even pulling pranks on each other. They all begin the story as immature youngsters, everything delights and interests them. But as they mature, they begin to experience and see life through different lenses. Dill, Jem and Scout all displayed a boisterous character due to their rowdy and active livelihood. Unfortunately, Scout had just been in a massive argument with her irksome Aunt Alexandra. Bolting off to her room with her temper flaring, she stepped on something near her bed, it was rubber like and worse yet—it moved. Scout fetched her older brother, Jem, and a broom and stood as if …show more content…

Dragging Dill and Scout with him, Jem tentatively climbed the Radley’s back steps. At the top, he suddenly froze as Boo Radley’s older brother, Nathan, was looking out the window, and right at them. The children fled as if their britches had caught fire. A shotgun exploded behind them, shattering the town’s usually quiet demeanor. A small crowd gathered outside the Radley’s house. “What happened?” Jem asked. “Mr. Radley shot at a Negro in his collard patch.” “Oh, did he hit him?” “No,” said their neighbor Miss Stephanie. “Shot in the air and—Jem Finch!” “Ma’am?” asked Jem. Atticus spoke, “where are your pants, son?” “Pants, sir?” “Pants.” It was no use, in his shorts before God and everybody. “Dill won them from me.” “Won them, how?” “We were playing strip poker up yonder by the fish pond?”… “Scout, Jem,” said Atticus, “I don’t want to hear of poker in any form again.””

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