Jodi Picoult once said “One person’s trauma is another’s loss of innocence”. This idea of maturation has been used in stories and novels for the longest of times. Throughout the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout, the main protagonist, grows up in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1930’s. Scout sees the ugliness of the world throughout her childhood as she is exposed to racism, injustice, and cruelty of society. The trial and death of Tom Robinson is the pivotal moment where Scout matures in the story, To Kill a Mockingbird, because she sees how Tom experiences racism, injustice and cruelty of society.
In the story, Scout lives in the south during the 1930’s when racism was a huge problem and she witnesses first hand how racism affects …show more content…
Scout realizes how terrible people can be when Atticus says how he dies: “Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much”(Lee,p 315). Scout agrees with Atticus, in that, the amount of bullets that were used was way too excessive. She knows that Tom should not have been shot but, the fact that he was shot seventeen times emphasizes the cruelty of people. All three of these things, racism, injustice, and cruelty of society can be seen through Tom Robinson. He had to go through all of this and Scout watches this tragedy happen right before her eyes. Much like what Jodi Picoult says, Tom’s traumas and problems leads to Scout’s loss of innocence. She sees the divide in morals in her town and through these events she chooses what she believes is the right side of the ridge. Atticus’s parenting has some to do with it but also her own personal opinions dealing with Tom’s case. Scouts maturation throughout the story affects the work as whole because it shows that even the most innocent people who do nothing wrong still deal with horrible things, even when they don’t deserve
In the story, Scout lives in the south during the 1930’s when racism was a huge problem and she witnesses first hand how racism affects …show more content…
Scout realizes how terrible people can be when Atticus says how he dies: “Seventeen bullet holes in him. They didn’t have to shoot him that much”(Lee,p 315). Scout agrees with Atticus, in that, the amount of bullets that were used was way too excessive. She knows that Tom should not have been shot but, the fact that he was shot seventeen times emphasizes the cruelty of people. All three of these things, racism, injustice, and cruelty of society can be seen through Tom Robinson. He had to go through all of this and Scout watches this tragedy happen right before her eyes. Much like what Jodi Picoult says, Tom’s traumas and problems leads to Scout’s loss of innocence. She sees the divide in morals in her town and through these events she chooses what she believes is the right side of the ridge. Atticus’s parenting has some to do with it but also her own personal opinions dealing with Tom’s case. Scouts maturation throughout the story affects the work as whole because it shows that even the most innocent people who do nothing wrong still deal with horrible things, even when they don’t deserve