Scout is beginning to mature throughout this book by humanizing people. Scout will ask questions when she doesn’t understand something. She has been listening to her father when he tells her someone is wrong. She is finally understanding the concept her father taught her In order to get around somebody you have to get around their own skin. In chapter nine Scout wanted to get into a fight because Cecil had used the N word which is an offensive slur and was saying stuff about her father. “I could take being called a coward for him” (Lee 88). This showed she had matured because she was willing to ruin her reputation to do the right thing. At the beginning of the book she would not have understood why her father would be defending a man when he wont win the case. Scout is putting herself in other peoples shoes. In chapter 7 Scout had said, “As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into jems skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley place at 2 in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon” (Lee 65). This shows me Scout is maturing because she had remembered what her father had taught her. She was able to view something from her brothers perspective. Back in chapter 3 when Scout was taught that lesson she was being really hard on Walter Cunningham. This has showed …show more content…
At the beginning of the book she was embarrassed and thought his job was lame. Through the book she has been able to view her father differently. She understands him. “It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated fun’s and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived” (Lee 116). Nobody in Maycomb could do what Atticus could do because he could humanize people. Scout is able to see that now and it shows her maturity. She has been showing that she can humanize others like her father. This shows me she has been able to grow up in these