The concept of adulting is becoming more mature. Scout throughout the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, demonstrates this as the story goes on. In the beginning of To Kill A Mockingbird, the main character, or Scout, can be seen talking in third person, reminiscing about his time in Alabama when he was younger. Scout would be in kindergarten by this time, as she is 5, and her brother, Jem, would be 10, as he is in 4th grade. Scout around this age is influenced easily by her older brother, as she has really no one else to turn to since her mother died when she was young, and their father had them at an old age. Their neighbors, the Radleys, are mysterious to Scout and her brother as there were multiple story’s of the Radleys, especially Boo Radley, or Arthur Radley. “Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that’s why his hands are blood stained—if you ate an animal …show more content…
Around this time Scout starts to spend time with her dad and older neighbors more, and listen on what they have to say about their life. Scout can also read and write very good in first grade, as she was tailgating by her dad and reads the newspaper, even though her teacher abides against it. Around this time aswell, they become more passive to Boo Radley, even going as far to try and buy him ice cream. “ All right then. What’d you write him? Dill said, We’re askin him real politely to come out sometimes, and tell us what he does in there—we said we wouldn’t hurt him and we’d buy him an ice cream.”(Lee 52) this shows how they are becoming more mature, as at the beginning, they wouldn’t even want to be even 10 feet from the house, but now they are going as far as to go and buy him ice