Many different books revolve around the idea of coming of age including To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Many people have or will go through a coming of age event in their lifetime which will mature them into someone who will understand the world and consider other people's perspective. Scout learns this when she walks Boo Radley home and is left on the front porch. She finally sees the world through Boo’s eyes and imagines the world from how he would see it. Through the literary elements of setting, imagery, and writing style when Scout is looking at the town through Boo Radley’s perspective, she learns to understand how the world works and to consider how other people might see the world. When Scout is standing on Boo Radley’s front
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When she was thinking about all these events Boo Radley saw from his house, She described them with vivid detail. For example, “It was fall, and his children fought on the sidewalk in front of Mrs.Dubose’s…. Winter, and his children shivered at the front gate, silhouetted against a blazing house” (372). The way scout described her imagining these memories got the reader to imagine how Boo might have saw the world and how it could be different than what Scout, Jem, and Atticus saw it as. By the way she described looking back on these events, has the reader seeing that Scout is understanding the world and the people in it. When Scout “turned to go home. Street lights winked down the street all the way to town. I had never seen our neighborhood from this angle. There were Miss Maudie’s, Miss Stephanie’s-there was our house, I could see the porch swing” (373). Through the use of details, the reader started to think about how she felt when she stood up on that porch, looking around at the neighborhood, from Boo Radley’s angle, and thinking about how he saw the world. She realized that not everything is as it seems and it is important to understand how other people see the world. In the beginning of the book, Scout did not think as much about what other people thought. In the beginning of the book, Scout was really scared to even step into the Radley’s front yard so she would run past his house (16-17). Scout described Boo Radley as someone really mysterious and a little bit frightening. She never really considered how he felt or why he stays in the house, she focused more on herself and how she thinks people should act. Scout described Boo Radley and how she felt about him in vivid detail which revealed how as the
When she was thinking about all these events Boo Radley saw from his house, She described them with vivid detail. For example, “It was fall, and his children fought on the sidewalk in front of Mrs.Dubose’s…. Winter, and his children shivered at the front gate, silhouetted against a blazing house” (372). The way scout described her imagining these memories got the reader to imagine how Boo might have saw the world and how it could be different than what Scout, Jem, and Atticus saw it as. By the way she described looking back on these events, has the reader seeing that Scout is understanding the world and the people in it. When Scout “turned to go home. Street lights winked down the street all the way to town. I had never seen our neighborhood from this angle. There were Miss Maudie’s, Miss Stephanie’s-there was our house, I could see the porch swing” (373). Through the use of details, the reader started to think about how she felt when she stood up on that porch, looking around at the neighborhood, from Boo Radley’s angle, and thinking about how he saw the world. She realized that not everything is as it seems and it is important to understand how other people see the world. In the beginning of the book, Scout did not think as much about what other people thought. In the beginning of the book, Scout was really scared to even step into the Radley’s front yard so she would run past his house (16-17). Scout described Boo Radley as someone really mysterious and a little bit frightening. She never really considered how he felt or why he stays in the house, she focused more on herself and how she thinks people should act. Scout described Boo Radley and how she felt about him in vivid detail which revealed how as the