Atticus Maturation

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Gurdaas Malik Period 3 Mrs. Koo English 1 Scout’s Journey to Adulthood In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, author Harper Lee explores the theme of maturation and the loss of innocence through young Scouts. This is done through Atticus’s wisdom and experiences, as well as her own innocent mistakes as well. She narrates the book through the little girl, who, as she matures, begins to realize the flaws of what she thought was the “perfect” town of Maycomb, along with the audience. What exactly are these flaws? What did she learn from it? In Part One of the novel, Scout’s father Atticus taught her a very valuable lesson, in that one should never fight unless it is of utmost necessity. When a classmate of hers mocked her because Atticus was defending …show more content…
Around the time of trial, Atticus was sitting outside the county jail where Tom was sleeping to protect himself from any lynch mobs that came through Maycomb. That night, Jem took Dill and Scout to the jail to see what Atticus was doing, just to see a lynch mob surrounding him. Young Scout squeezed her way through the crowd to get to her father. After finding Mr. Cunningham in the crowd, and talking about his legal affairs in front of the mob, Scout is confused when everyone around her is shocked. She recalls how, “Atticus said nothing.Mr Cunningham’s face was equally impassive. Then he did a peculiar thing.he straightened up and waved a big paw. ‘Let’s clear out boys’ he called.”(175). Scout is too young to understand that that information is not something to be talked about in public, but by trying to have a conversation with him, she makes him realize that while he didn’t like that Atticus was defending Tom, they were still both people of Maycomb, and they have a lot in common. Scout is also too young to understand she possibly saved Atticus’s

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