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Jem And Scout Coming Of Age Essay

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Jem and Scout’s Coming of Age Books are uniquely suited to help people change their relationships and the variety of habits of daily life in this world. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the author exemplifies the moving behavior of humans teaches reader the factors of human personalities, such as innocence, kindness, and the moral of human dignity. Scout and Jem, on their journey to growing up as they move away from childhood, have coming of age moments where they have the ability to see individuals with a combination of good and evil. A moment that Jem and Scout encounters is learning about innocence from people. In Chapter 10, Miss Maudie explains about the significance of mockingbirds, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make …show more content…

Atticus describes to Jem and Scout about Mr. Cunningham, “Mr. Cunningham’s basically a good man...he just has his blind spots along with the rest of us...you’ll understand folks a little better when you’re older. A mob’s always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man” (Lee 210). Jem and Scout learn that Mr. Cunningham has a “blind spot,” which he is racist against people of color and leads Tom Robinson to jail to enact violence. Other than that, Mr. Cunningham is a hard-working man who struggle each day to take care of his family. Also, Scout explains to Atticus what happened as she met Boo Radley. “‘An’ they chased him ‘n’ never could catch him ‘cause they didn’t know what he looked like, an’ Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things...Atticus, he was real nice...’ ‘Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them’” (Lee 376). Scout sees if “you climb in his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 39), she could see Boo’s personalities by meeting him, even though he was thought to be

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