Essay On How Scout Mature In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, there is a six year old girl named Jean Louise Finch also known as Scout Finch. Scout is very straightforward and may come off a bit sassy. But Throughout the book she shows that she has matured in the way she thinks and acts. Scout shows that she has matured throughout the book when, she accept the evils of the world and, when she is able to make moral decisions based on looking at the situation in the other person's perspective.
An example of how Scout matured throughout the book is during the beginning. Jem, their friend Dill, and Scout were listening to stories about Arthur Radley who they called Boo Radley throughout the book. The stories they talked about were about how Boo would do terrible things …show more content…
In chapter three of the story it says, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...Until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.” In this part of the text Atticus was explaining how Scout could've approached her teacher in a different manner, when she corrected her and told her she already knew how to read. Although Atticus said this near the beginning of the book, Scout didn’t wrap her head around the concept until the very last chapter when she finally met Boo. Once she met him, she realized that Boo wasn’t really mean and that he was actually really nice.
Lastly, Scout learns the evil of the world all throughout the book. An example of this is in chapter nine. During this part of the text, Cecil Jacobs tells the kids at school that “Scout Finch’s father defends n*****s”. After Cecil says this about Atticus, Scout feels the need to fight Cecil Jacobs. Near the end of the book Scout went through numerous occasions where people would bring up things about people’s color and what not. Since she went through this, I feel like it opened Scout’s eyes to the real world, and how racism is a thing even though it’s not
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