Scout's Maturity

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As people grow in life they mature and change. The main character matures as the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, continues. Scout is childish and disrespectful at the beginning of the novel. think that Scout because she doesn't fight much and finally saw Boo radley. Their for Scout involved more than Jem because threw out this events.

The first reason why scout involved more is that when she doesn't fight people that much and instead she just ignores them just like when she wants to fight cecil Jacobs but she didn't fight him.According to, the text was certainly never cruel to animals, but I had never known his charity to embrace the insect world. ‘Why couldn't I mash him?’ I asked. ‘Because they don't bother you,’ Jem answered in the darkness. He had turned out his reading light (Harper Lee 320).”It's saying that scout no longers fight people more because it's comparing jem to being careful to animal. Then later jem says that they don't bother you so it's asking that try to ignore other that who makes fun of you or your family.this improves scout because she
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According to the text Boo Radley comes to the rescue of Jem and Scout in Chapter 28 of To Kill a Mockingbird “Scout is never actually able to see Boo, since her ham costume obscures her view, but she does realize that ‘It was now slowly coming to me that there were four people under the tree’ Jem, Scout and the two unidentified men Boo and Bob Ewell”(Lee 262-263).
Scout went to a childish mind to a mind that is now posiende it messed up cause threw out the experience that jem and scout went to like the court case to Bob ewell attack.Scout complains that her illusions about Maycomb have been shattered: he thought that these people were the best in the world, but, having seen the trial, he doesn’t think so

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