Maturity In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

The world surrounding a child enables room for learning. And with learning comes experience, which then turns to maturity. As the story of To Kill A Mockingbird progresses, the world surrounding Scout and Jem Finch deterrs. Their father, Atticus takes on a case in regards to a black man. And with the case comes hatred and racism. Therefore; the world surrounding Jem and Scout ultimately enables their further understanding of the town surrounding them, along with their maturity. Every life and level of understanding comes with a starting point. “People said he existed, but Jem and I had never seen him. People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in the windows. When people’s azaleas froze in a cold snap, it was because he had breathed on them. Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work. Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people’s chickens and household pets were found mutilated;” (Lee 9). The

As the book and introduction of the kid’s began with Boo Radley, the book ended with Boo Radley. However, in the end, the gaze and imagination of Boo Radley was altered completely. He was no longer this terrifying monster in their eyes, the town they lived in had claimed this position. As the case their father had been defending came into their lives, it also left a mark. A mark of which helped the kids grow up. A little faster than normal, however, that childhood nightmare was now something different than a monster living down the street. Boo Radley was a character throughout the book that the reader was only given a small introduction to. A fearsome one at that. But as the story progresses, the reader begins to look at Boo Radley the way that Jem and Scout’s growing minds did. And thus, left the reader with the Finch children who had been through and seen so much, that their innocence had been altered