Scout's Maturity In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

“Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough." (p. ). In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the reader is shown various ways in which Scout has matured and grown. The events that occur in the book display all the bad and horrible things in life one has to eventually go through, like racial injustice and learning the truth about people. Since Scout is so young, she experiences adult situations that develop her understanding of life. With Jem, Atticus, Cal, and other citizens of Maycomb helping her get through, she molds into a grown up little girl. One event that had a major impact on Scout’s maturity was Tom Robinson’s

Many characters in book portray this phrase such as, Mr. Dolphus Raymond and even Atticus. “Our father didn’t do anything. He worked in an office, not in a drugstore. Atticus did not drive a dump-truck for the county, he was not the sheriff, he did not farm, work in a garage, or do anything that could possibly arouse the admiration of anyone.” (p. ). Scout views Atticus as a boring and old dad, that doesn't have enough energy to do anything, until Tim Johnson came along. When sheriff Heck Tate passes over the gun and said, “ ‘Take him, Mr. Finch.’ Mr. Tate handed the rifle to Atticus; Jem and I nearly fainted.” (p. ). Jem and Scout are so shocked because they are unaware of the title Atticus held at one time, One shot Finch. Another prime example is Mr. Dolphus Raymond. “He’s got a Co-Cola bottle full of whiskey in there…. Why’s he sittin‘ with the colored folks? Always does….. He’s got colored women and all sorts of mixed chillun. ” (p. ). In the quote Jem has only assumes that Mr. Raymond is a constant drunk and that he prefers the company of colored people. But Scout later learns during the trial when she steps out with Dill the truth. “Secretly, Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.”(p. ). This reveals that Mr. Raymond does what he does to help give people of

One of the first times she gets in a fight was with Cecil Jacobs. Cecil was making fun about how her dad, Atticus was defending a negro; being a child that was born and raised in Maycomb, they are taught that what Atticus is doing is wrong and that he shouldn’t actually be intending to help a black man. “My folks said your daddy was a disgrace an‘ that nigger oughta hang from the water-tank!” (p. ). In this situation, if Atticus wasn’t on the back of her conscious, she would’ve have engaged in a fist fight with him and disappointed her family along with it. “I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be…… Somehow, if I fought Cecil I would let Atticus down.”(p. ). The predicament that Scout made, showed how she overlooked what her consequences would be if she had let out her temper; therefore demonstrating her high level of