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Coming of age means when someone matures emotionally/spiritually, or in some other way. The importance of coming of age is a transition from childhood to adulthood. In Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” there are multiple examples of coming of age as Jem and Scout’s levels of maturity progress throughout the entire story. By the end of the novel, they viewed the world, as if they had a whole different pair of eyes. Coming of age is generally known to be a positive change. As it helps people view the world with a non-idealistic perspective. In this novel, coming of age was a negative experience for Scout and Jem because of the loss of innocence, they become more aware that there is good and evil in humanity, and maturity …show more content…
Jem and Scout are more sensible which causes them to lose innocence. The first instance where the theme loss of innocence is shown when Mr. Radley “put cement in that tree” (Lee 83) because when a “tree’s dying, you plug’ em with cement” (83). The real reasoning behind Mr. Radley putting cement in the hole in the tree is because he does not want Boo Radley (his son) to have any way of communication or interaction to the real world, but to stay inside in their home. After the tree is filled with cement scout said, “he had been crying [and I] thought it odd that I had not heard” (84) this quote represents that Jem had empathy towards Boo and put himself in Boo’s “shoes” and felt sorry because the only source of communication he had left was stripped away from him. This left Boo in the same position he started with. Scout displayed loss of innocence when she asked Atticus “what’s rape?” (180) during the taking of Tom Robinson’s case. Tom was supposedly accused of “rape was carnal knowledge of a [gender] by force and without consent” (180) which was what Tom had supposedly done to Mayella Ewell. Scout is presumed to be an eight-year-old female who should be playing outside, having fun and still not at the stage where she understands the dangers of the world, such as rape. Most eight-year-olds still and shouldn’t understand the worries/dangers of the real world. Due to Scout’s loss of innocence and she grew up to quickly which lead her to view the world more cynically. She views the world cynically as she might think she might be raped or hurt. When arriving to the courthouse and seeing the lynch mob and everyone trying to verbally attack Atticus caught up with Scout and “the full meaning of the nights events hit me, and I began crying” (208) because at such a young age “nearly nine years old didn’t do thing like that (experience something severe)” (208) shows that she was affected by the way Tom and
Coming of age means when someone matures emotionally/spiritually, or in some other way. The importance of coming of age is a transition from childhood to adulthood. In Harper Lee’s novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” there are multiple examples of coming of age as Jem and Scout’s levels of maturity progress throughout the entire story. By the end of the novel, they viewed the world, as if they had a whole different pair of eyes. Coming of age is generally known to be a positive change. As it helps people view the world with a non-idealistic perspective. In this novel, coming of age was a negative experience for Scout and Jem because of the loss of innocence, they become more aware that there is good and evil in humanity, and maturity …show more content…
Jem and Scout are more sensible which causes them to lose innocence. The first instance where the theme loss of innocence is shown when Mr. Radley “put cement in that tree” (Lee 83) because when a “tree’s dying, you plug’ em with cement” (83). The real reasoning behind Mr. Radley putting cement in the hole in the tree is because he does not want Boo Radley (his son) to have any way of communication or interaction to the real world, but to stay inside in their home. After the tree is filled with cement scout said, “he had been crying [and I] thought it odd that I had not heard” (84) this quote represents that Jem had empathy towards Boo and put himself in Boo’s “shoes” and felt sorry because the only source of communication he had left was stripped away from him. This left Boo in the same position he started with. Scout displayed loss of innocence when she asked Atticus “what’s rape?” (180) during the taking of Tom Robinson’s case. Tom was supposedly accused of “rape was carnal knowledge of a [gender] by force and without consent” (180) which was what Tom had supposedly done to Mayella Ewell. Scout is presumed to be an eight-year-old female who should be playing outside, having fun and still not at the stage where she understands the dangers of the world, such as rape. Most eight-year-olds still and shouldn’t understand the worries/dangers of the real world. Due to Scout’s loss of innocence and she grew up to quickly which lead her to view the world more cynically. She views the world cynically as she might think she might be raped or hurt. When arriving to the courthouse and seeing the lynch mob and everyone trying to verbally attack Atticus caught up with Scout and “the full meaning of the nights events hit me, and I began crying” (208) because at such a young age “nearly nine years old didn’t do thing like that (experience something severe)” (208) shows that she was affected by the way Tom and