Scout’s Maturity
Maturation is a stage of growth that we as human beings begin at birth. “To Kill a Mockingbird” in Harper Lee shows Scouts growth as she experiences and understands the prejudice of Maycomb. In the beginning Scout is a naive little girl but as the story commences she begins to understand what goes on in Maycomb and by the end she may still be young but she has matured. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” author suggests the actions we take lead us to become human beings and what we have done and learned from it leads to mature beings.
In the beginning, Scout is an outsider, a tomboy who is not accepted by her brother or his friend. She is known as “the girl” also she announces that she is five years old but she tries her best to fit in and play with he brother and Dill. Scout thinks of herself as an adult in the beginning, like at when at school she thinks of herself and her school mates as little adults, who must take care of the first year teachers, this shows she is still small but is working her way to adulthood. As the first part of the story progresses we learn another quality which makes Scout immature; the fact that she can’t control her anger. For example when Scout beat up her cousin, this shows she needs to accept something’s and let them go because if she keeps getting angry she is going to go on a rampage because in those days bigotry existed and she has to get use to it.. Scout makes very little progress in the first part of “To Kill a Mockingbird” but that doesn’t mean she isn’t determined.
