Scout, through involvements with three men, Arthur (Boo) Radley, Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson, goes through a gradual development in character.

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“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Throughout history, people have dealt with uncountable number of conflicts between people from different races (ethnicities). But people have to understand, how just like stopping to kill the mockingbirds, people should also end discriminations and killings of innocent lives. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee shows readers the cruelty of discriminations, through a young girl named Jean Louis Finch (Scout). Now Scout, through involvements with three men, Arthur (Boo) Radley, Atticus Finch and Tom Robinson, goes through a gradual development in character, from an innocent and immature girl, to a person who reaches realization and could understand more about the world she lives in.

Arthur’s gradual change in the way he views the world, allows Scout to begin changing, affecting the way she will come to view not only him, but also the society as a whole. As a young girl, Scout follows Jem (her brother), and their friend Dill, believing that by acting and playing with them, she will be more accepted, and will allow her to feel more comfortable. This leads her to be involved with the unknown world, through the game the three children plays – the Boo Radley’s game. Scout is just an innocent child who does not know enough about the complexity of adult world, but anxious to know the truth of Arthur Radley’s isolation, she follows the boys into playing the dangerous game. She heard a lot about how Arthur is a crazy lad, who intended to stab his father, and has turned into a “ghost,” (page 12) because he never came out of the house for years. From the way Scout reacts and talks about the Radleys, shows her immaturity, along with her innocence as a child, because she is easily influenced by what the adults say, and creates a lot of things up in her mind making the existence of Boo (Arthur) Radley more mysterious. But as the story progresses, it gradually reveals that Arthur is actually not a crazy person. In fact, he is nice and warm-hearted, willing to connect with children and help them out of danger. “Boo Radley…he put the blanket around you,” (page 78). At first people does not realize Arthur’s kindness in trying to keep the children from danger, and actually wants to keep them warm and safe. But his small actions gradually touches the Scout, and she comes to realize that she should view the world using her own eyes, and not through what she hears from other people. Everyone in the society is an individual, who has to make their own decisions, and so people should have their own opinion about the world they are born in. As Scout experiences gradual changes and starts coming in contact with the adult world, her father then helps her throughout conflicts she feels and teaches her more about what it means to grow up.

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He leads Scout step by step into becoming more mature, so she would be able to stand the pressure their townspeople will be giving them. Atticus and Scout has a great age difference (fifty years old father and six years old daughter), and this changes the way she views her father. Due to his age, he has already come to be a calm and stable gentleman, who is not playful, leaving Scout in disappointment, because she believes that her father cannot do anything interesting besides reading to her. But this conflict between Atticus and Scout changes gradually, as he reveals ...

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