Theme Of Mature In To Kill A Mockingbird

Do you know when you started to understand things in a more mature way than before? Well, in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, we can see how individual characters start to see things in a more mature way as they grow up and experience different things. In this book, we follow the main character Scout who is 6 with her 10-year-old brother Jem and their father Atticus in a small town in Alabama. Scout and Jem spend most of their time in school or messing around the mysterious Radley house with their friend Dill during the summer. Then, there is a court trial that shocks and affects the whole town. One of the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird is loss of innocence and moral growth. We see this through many people but especially Scout,

Throughout the book, Jem and Scout receive multiple gifts found inside a tree, Jem found his pants fixed when they got torn in a fence, Scout finds a blanket around her, and Jem and Scout were saved from an attack, which was all things Boo did. “We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.” (Lee 373). This is a thought from Scout when she takes Boo home after she finds out he saved Jem and her lives after they were attacked. Because Scout thought badly of Boo she didn’t think that it was him that did those things. We can see her moral growth when she realizes it was him, then she felt bad for her earlier thinking and for never doing anything in return. She develops an understanding to not make judgments about a person based on what she hears from others and instead to wait to make judgments about them when she interacts with the

The trial in the book involves a white plaintiff, Bob, and a black defendant, Tom. Already this isn't great news for Tom, as there was segregation and racism during this time. During the trial, Jem notices how Tom is talked to differently from everyone, and at the end of the trial, Tom’s final verdict is that he is guilty. All though some of the juries know Tom is innocent, they still say he is guilty because it is not socially acceptable to agree with a black man over a white man. “His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd. ‘It ain't right,’ he muttered,…” (Lee 284). This is what Scout notices and what Jem says as they leave when the trail is over. Even Jem knows that Tom is innocent, but they still said he was guilty and this fires up his understanding of how badly black people are treated. This is where he really expands his perspective and losses his