In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird the theme is, the world is different in the eyes of a child. Jem says that if he were on that jury then he would let Tom Robinson free and Atticus explains, “‘If you had been on that jury, son and eleven other boys like you Tom would be a free man,’ said Atticus ‘so far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. Those are twelve reasonable men in everyday life, Tom’s jury, but you saw something come between them and reason…’”(Lee 295). In the quote Atticus explains to Jem why his mind is childlike by telling him that his reasoning process has not been tampered with and that the grown men’s way of reason is more advanced than his. Children have not had the same experiences as more grown up adults. …show more content…
Scout is young and while she is smart for her age, her brain is not developed enough to grasp the fact that the world she lives in isn’t a good one or she is to stubborn to accept it. In her mind Tom should be a free man however, he got the death sentence and neither her or Jem think that is right. Not only are the children uneducated on the black vs. white trial, they also make snap judgements about Boo Radley, even though they have never met him. “Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch... his hands were bloodstained--if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time” (Lee