Examples Of How Scout Mature In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Scout being a mature girl. Throughout life people is stereotyped, misread, and seen as something they aren’t. At this point we understand the change that Scout is having and the world where she’s living in, a cruel world, where the racism is in the streets and kids are innocent and they grow up just as they watch people acting in the streets. We could judge people at all the time, but with the pass of the time people change in different ways to think, act and physically.

Scout is judge in the way she acts and talk to people in the school. ”I was born good but i had grown progressively worse every year” (Lee 86). Everybody in this world is born with good intentions, but we get bad and even worse with the people we hang out with and the way society in this world talk and treat us, no one is bad but the society make you be bad. In fact, Scout has been a good girl at all the time is just that she act in a bad way and rude to the people that don’t like her or give her bad treats.
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”I said i would like it very much, which was a lie, but one must lie under certain circumstances and at all the times when one can’t do anything about them” (Lee 145). In the other hand, Scout is talking about it would be great to say something nice that i didn’t like or say something that i like but is going to be a lie, and that’s not worth it, because you have to free yourself about the way you feel. Scout prefer to hurt some feelings than be thinking about what she wanted to say but she had it to tell a lie of

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