Maturity In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Scout and Jem began to mature throughout the book, they also start to see a different view of the world. Throughout the essay many questions will be answered regarding the maturity process, the primary question presented is, “ What caused them to mature?”. The essay will explain the factors from the novel that showed the evolving and hints of Jem and Scouts journey to maturing.

Everyone in this society grows up and develops its nothing new. Maturing stage in people's life's people includes modifying their behavior to the better and the better analyzing of problems that occur and approaching situations differently while thinking through it smarter. Maturing is a tremendous topic in the Novel, the process of maturing was largely implied on
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Tom Robinson's trial was the main factor of Jem and Scout beginning to develop their view of the world. Jem and Scout both start viewing stuff and approaching them differently they began to apprehend how the world isn't fair like both of them always thought it was. Jem and Scout started to understand that it isn't all about having fun and playing games, they began to see the real side of the world, they opened up further to the topic ''fairness''. Jem was very affected by this trial and evidence to prove that is by how he spoke and expressed his feelings towards it to Atticus regarding the Tom Robinson trial. A quote shown in the novel is Jem speaking to Atticus about the situation that occurred and saying, "It …show more content…
An example of this is shown by a quote in this novel, ''Jem stayed moody and silent for a week. As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him.''. This quote explains how when Atticus had told Scout to climb into the person's skin and understand what they're going through before judging, which is what Scout did and thought about it and realized that it would be better not to bother him. This shows a huge hint of the maturing of

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