Tom Robinson Transformation

“Never judge a book by its cover”. That is a phrase that perfectly corresponds with what the theme in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird is. To Kill A Mockingbird is a critically acclaimed novel about racial discrimination inside Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. The protagonist in the novel is surprisingly a 6 year old girl named Scout Finch. In summary, this fictional novel gives insights on the environment in white town during the post Civil War eras that ultimately lead to a black man named Tom Robinson being wrongly accused of a rape crime. This leads to the town’s most known lawyer, Atticus, which happens to be the protagonist’s dad, to attempt to help Tom Robinson get a fair trial to prove his innocence. Throughout the whole book, we are able to read about the Finch family’s adventures of living in a racist-filled environment and how well they react to them initially and ultimately. Being just a child at the time, it is hard for Scout Finch to understand what’s really going on in the town of Maycomb and why people have turned against her family. The novel is written in the form of flashbacks, with the story beginning when Scout was only 6 years old and ending when she is 9 years old. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout’s transformation from naive to mature as the novel progresses is evidenced

Tom Robinson is caught kissing a white woman from Maycomb named Mayella Ewell. To prevent being frowned upon by the local citizens, she instead said that Tom Robinson raped her even though that was far from the truth. He’s taken into trial with the help of Atticus, and the case is unarguably one of the factors that help further the theme of innocence in Scout’s view. Atticus is determined to help Tom, even if it means that the citizens will turn against his own family because “killing a mockingbird is a sin.” As events progress, Scout is taught that discrimination solely because someone is “different” is