How Does Tom Mature In To Kill A Mockingbird

In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee wrote about a family of three. Atticus, a widow husband, raises his children, Jem and Scout, along with a maid named Calpurnia. The book takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. Throughout the book, the reader is presented with racism which is something that Jem and Scout did not understand in the beginning. A big, specific event in the book was Tom Robinson’s case. Atticus, being a lawyer, decides to defend Tom in his case because he feels that it is the right thing to do, since he knew no one else would; due to the fact that Tom was black. Tom was a man accused of rape and was found guilty even though the evidence clearly proved otherwise. Jem and Scout mature a lot during

"You ain't got no business bringin' white chillun here—they got their church, we got our'n. It is our church, ain't it, Miss Cal?" (Lee 119). At the church, Lula did not welcome the kids and made them feel odd simply because they were white. "We're mighty glad to have you all here. Don't pay no 'tention to Lula, she's contentious because Reverend Sykes threatened to church her. She's a troublemaker from way back, got fancy ideas an' haughty ways—we're mighty glad to have you all" (Lee 119). Even though Lula was angry because Calpurnia took the kids to their church, all the other black church members joyfully welcomed

Throughout the book, the whites are seen as a higher class than the blacks. Even in court, where everyone is supposed to be treated equally, Tom was still being treated bad because of his color. Just because Bob and Mayella were white and were accusing a black man, automatically Tom was seen as a bad person and wasn’t believed. All of the evidence proved him innocent but no one believed that he was telling the truth. Jem and Scout have changed due to people treating other races differently because they understand how nasty the world and the people in the world can be. The kids faced so many racist situations in their life that they now know what and what not to expect from others. The reader can be changed by reading the book because it describes how the life of a person can be affected if they are mistreated by their skin color. Learning that a person’s life can be affected due to being treated unfairly because of race makes the reader not want to judge