To Kill A Mockingbird Essay Ursula K.Le Guin once said “There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” That point being, coming of age, Harper Lee uses coming of age in the town of Maycomb through Jem and Scout. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses Jem and Scout’s coming of age to convey to her 1960s readers that even the young and innocent have the potential to do and be good contrary to the popular belief in a community, and can be equal with people even though they weren't taught to be. There are many stages in the process of coming of age people must endure before being completely grown up and knowing all that's right and wrong. Harper lee wants us to learn through Jem’s coming of age how that , even when grown up that people can still learn how to change and other people can help people learn how to change. Just like when in To Kill A Mockingbird Jem went against the popular idea and did the mature thing. “ Dill’s eyes flickered at Jem, and Jem looked at the floor. Then he rose and broke the remaining code of our childhood”(Lee 79). Jem leaving and being mature is an example of going against what you have learned to do, showing that though you have been doing something for 10 years that people can and will change. Change is not always a bad thing it can seem like not a
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So throughout the book even though people are taught differently they learned to flip their views and learn to coexist with everyone, just like people in 2017 have to learn to get along with other people the same way and grow up and
So throughout the book even though people are taught differently they learned to flip their views and learn to coexist with everyone, just like people in 2017 have to learn to get along with other people the same way and grow up and