To Kill A Mockingbird Coming Of Age Analysis

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Coming of age is a vital stage that happens in everyone's life, that transforms your thinking from child to young adult. It happens to everyone and the situations can vary for every individual. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the literary elements characterization and conflict to display the idea that seeing the world the it really is way it is a vital component to coming of age.
The book takes place in Maycomb, Alabama and shows the town through Scout Finch’s young innocent eyes. Throughout the book, Scout and her brother, Jem Finch experience many coming of age moments that will change their perspective of Maycomb. Jem being the oldest realizes that how the world really works earlier than Scout since she is younger. As the …show more content…

During the trial Jem says to Scout, “He’s just gone over evidence, and we are gonna win, Scout. I don’t see how we can’t.” This excerpt gives the reader insight on how confident Jem is that his father will win the case. In the trial, it is a black man’s word against a white man’s word, Tom Robinson's word against Bob Ewell. Atticus reveals that Mayella was not abused by Tom Robinson but by her very own father. The evidence presented was solid, concrete and credible, which made Jem very confident that they were going to win, without even realizing what kind of injustice happens in the courthouse. After coming back to the courthouse from eating, Jem stated, “He’s not supposed to lean, Reverend, but don’t fret, we’ve won it. Don’t see how any jury could convict on what we heard.” Reverend then quickly interrupted him saying, “Now don’t you be so confident, Mr. Jem, I ain’t ever seen any jury decide in favor of a colored man over a white man.” This excerpt gives the reader an idea that really Jem is the only one who believes that Atticus would win the case, Reverend Sykes warns him not to get so sure of himself because cases like this never go the way we want them to because of how white man's word will always favor a colored man's word; Jem doesn't entirely understand what he was talking about until the