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To Kill A Mockingbird Coming Of Age Analysis

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Coming of age emphasizes the internal monologue of a young individual experiencing events that impose maturation on such person. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch is introduced to us as the narrator, a woman reflecting on her personal coming of age experience. Beginning entirely naïve at 6-years-old, she, with her older brother Jem, encounters people, places and things that alter her outlook on life. At the end of the book, Scout walks her allegedly horrible neighbor, Boo Radley, back home after he saves her from murder. To illustrate her journey to adulthood, Harper Lee uses literary elements such as character and setting to reiterate the theme of coming of age.
Incipiently, the original Boo Radley dilemma was
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