Theme Of Innocence In To Kill A Mockingbird

¨Maturity is not measured by age. It´s an attitude built by experience.¨ This quote is an explanation of the main character of Harper Lee´s novel, ¨To Kill A Mockingbird¨, Jean Louise or Scout Finch. She changes and matures throughout the course of the novel but by the experiences she goes through and the things that she hears. At the beginning of the novel, she´s innocent yet adventurous; in the middle, she is starting to feel left out and gets easily angered; and by the end of the novel, she becomes a confident, and understanding young girl. Scout Finch always considered herself a tomboy, which makes her look up to her older brother, Jem. She listens to him even though she knows that it might not be the right thing to do, but is never afraid

One of the main conflicts is the trial of Tom Robinson, an African-American who is accused for rapeing Mayella Ewell, a white girl. The entire town goes to watch, including Scout, Jem, and Dill, knowing that Atticus would be defending Tom. While watching the trial, Scout hears certain parts of the trial which makes her start to understand things. She starts to understand the discrimination between the blacks and whites and that the blacks have a vast disadvantage for the only reason being their skin pigment. In the novel, it's obvious, for many reason, that Tom plead as innocent, but the judge still accuse him of being guilty, and ultimately, was punished, and out of distress, Tom ran away and was killed. The accusations and punishments that Tom was facing for something that he didn’t do is one of the examples of the disadvantages that African-Americans had in the 1930’s that Scout begins to

She’s surprised that Boo, who they thought of as a mysterious, and scary man, can be so compassionate and protective over Scout and Jem, even though they never met Boo. “He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back in the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing and it made me sad.” (373) Scout regrets not giving Boo anything in return after him saving their lives and they are all eternally grateful for Arthur Radley. In the moment that she found out that he saved both of their lives, she realizes that people don’t always match up with the rumors about