Children In To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, clearly shows that children can understand the world. when the finch family goes to their relatives house for dinner, Scout and her cousin don't get along. When things get heated between them, Uncle Jack jumps to conclusions and severely scolds, and spanks scout. When they arrive home, jack comes in to talk to an angry scout who tells her uncle what she thinks he did wrong. “well in the first place you never stopped to gimme a chance to tell my side of the it…” Uncle Jack doesn't have kids and scout understands that he doesn't know how to properly discipline a child. Not only does scout tell her uncle her views of the world but also her teacher. When Miss Caroline, notices that walter cunningham doesn't have a lunch she gives him a quarter to buy …show more content…
The hole in the tree that contained little presents, jems mended pants, and the blanket placed around scout's shoulders, makes jem realize that boo is friendly. But when the hole is covered up with cement jem knows it was boos father nathan, and he wanted to stop the communication between boo and the kids. “...Mr. Nathan put cement in the tree, atticus, and he did it to stop us findin’ things ---hes crazy, i reckon like they say, but atticus, i swear to god he ain't harmed us, he aint ever hurt us, he couldve cut my throat from ear to ear that night but he tried to mend my pants instead… he aint ever hurt us, atticus---” while all the other kids think that boo is some evil ghost jem shows great maturity and understanding in discerning that boo is a kind man who cares about the wellbeing of himself and scout. Its easier to judge someone by their appearance, and reputation, or social inadequacies rather than it is to learn who someone really is, but jem catches on to this at a young age and acts better than an adult would. In the end jem and scout show that they understand the world they live in