Harper Lee's book, "To Kill A Mockingbird", is about two young children developing into society's reality during the time period of racism.As mentioned,development can also mean the coming of age,where children slowly grow up and change into the reality,facing hard challenges and learning from them.As the children get older,they start to see things differently.It comes to the point where they wanna go back to their childhood to play every day of the week.Significantly,while growing up they don't want to know about the real world anymore. An example of the coming of age in the book is a six year old girl who thinks that the outside world is perfectly normal with no hardships.But later on,she witnesses the act of racism.Where she sees people …show more content…
Until my father explained it to me later, I did not understand the subtlety of Tom’s predicament: he would not have dared strike a white woman under any circumstances and expect to live long, so he took the first opportunity to run—a sure sign of guilt. The scout didn t entirely understand,but she knew it was wrong.Tom was innocent of the crime but was still found …show more content…
Scout was mad at Walter for getting her into trouble,so she chose to beat him up for revenge.Scouts brother breaks up the fight and invites Walter for dinner.As they began eating,Scout pointed out that Walter poured syrup all over his meal because she was still mad at him.This humiliation led Calpurnia to talk to her privately. “There’s some folks who don’t eat like us,” she whispered fiercely, “but you ain’t called on to contradict ’em at the table when they don’t. That boy’s yo’ comp’ny and if he wants to eat up the table cloth you let him, you hear?”(chapter 3).Scout got mad at Calpurnia for talking to her that way so she told Atticus to fire her,but he refused.Later on,Scout learned to accept people for who they are and she has gained her manners towards