In the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch represents pure innocence, but loses this by the end of the book. As the course of the book takes place, she comes to face with the harsh realities of life; Scout gains wisdom and understanding of these experiences at the expense of her innocence. She ages throughout the book: starting out as a naive six year old, and over three years and very real, life events, she ends the book with a very mature nine year old. Scout loses her childish image of life, and replaces it with a hardened understanding of acceptance.
Taking the major and minor life events of Jean Lousie "Scout" Finch that helped shape her from innocence to understanding.
Atticus Finch is Scout and Jem Finch 's dad. He was a respected lawyer and man in Maycomb …show more content…
He asked why they could convict him on just the word of two people without any physical evidence. Atticus just responded, "that they have done it before, and will do it again, and it seems only the children will weep." Meaning that only the truly innocent can see through the color off of one 's skin and truly judge them based off what they know. Though all of this, Scout Finch was able to see and learn first hand from her dad
Atticus, neighbor Miss Maudie, brother Jem, classmate Walter, Tom Robinson, Bob and
Mayella Ewell, that it is not how much you do or do not know, or right or wrong; that things were just going to be a certain way and she could not do one thing to stop it. She was seeing that this was a step in the right direction, but that racism was still clearly relevant in the daily lives of those in Maycomb County. Scout learned the true meaning of racism, and by doing that looses her pure innocences by giving up what she knows is right for understanding things and accepting them for how they are. Scout came to understand that there was no possible way for Atticus to win the case. The trial was over before it was started. Scout learned to accept facts that are unable to be
Taking the major and minor life events of Jean Lousie "Scout" Finch that helped shape her from innocence to understanding.
Atticus Finch is Scout and Jem Finch 's dad. He was a respected lawyer and man in Maycomb …show more content…
He asked why they could convict him on just the word of two people without any physical evidence. Atticus just responded, "that they have done it before, and will do it again, and it seems only the children will weep." Meaning that only the truly innocent can see through the color off of one 's skin and truly judge them based off what they know. Though all of this, Scout Finch was able to see and learn first hand from her dad
Atticus, neighbor Miss Maudie, brother Jem, classmate Walter, Tom Robinson, Bob and
Mayella Ewell, that it is not how much you do or do not know, or right or wrong; that things were just going to be a certain way and she could not do one thing to stop it. She was seeing that this was a step in the right direction, but that racism was still clearly relevant in the daily lives of those in Maycomb County. Scout learned the true meaning of racism, and by doing that looses her pure innocences by giving up what she knows is right for understanding things and accepting them for how they are. Scout came to understand that there was no possible way for Atticus to win the case. The trial was over before it was started. Scout learned to accept facts that are unable to be