Most innocent people do not realize how innocent they are until they lose their innocence. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee three innocent characters lose their innocent as young children. She brilliantly crafts her novel to keep the reader interested and make them feel like he or she is apart of the story itself. She uses this with imagery and her own personal experiences. Lee experienced a rape case within her hometown and uses that experiences to help her write how the characters feel. She also used it to create the theme coming of age, which was true for her as well as a kid. Coming of age is a theme throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, but one scene that shows all three of the kids experiencing the coming of age is how they all grow up and show it through the experiences of the trial.
All kids grow up innocent and with a sense of imagination, but in To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, Dill, and Jem are cut short in their childhood due to a brutal trial that opens their eyes. No matter how hard Atticus tries to keep …show more content…
Scout is younger than both Dill and Jem and has not grasped all the concepts and morals of the world; therefore, she learns different things from the trial. Scout begins seeing the world with a new film and displays sympathy for the broken world she lives in. Although she does not cry she truly displays sympathy: “I was more at home in my father's world. People like Mr. Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you; even Jem was not highly critical unless you said something stupid. Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them. But I liked them. There was something about them, no matter how much they cussed and drank and gambled and chewed; no matter how undelectable they were, there was something about them that I instinctively liked... they
All kids grow up innocent and with a sense of imagination, but in To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout, Dill, and Jem are cut short in their childhood due to a brutal trial that opens their eyes. No matter how hard Atticus tries to keep …show more content…
Scout is younger than both Dill and Jem and has not grasped all the concepts and morals of the world; therefore, she learns different things from the trial. Scout begins seeing the world with a new film and displays sympathy for the broken world she lives in. Although she does not cry she truly displays sympathy: “I was more at home in my father's world. People like Mr. Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent questions to make fun of you; even Jem was not highly critical unless you said something stupid. Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them. But I liked them. There was something about them, no matter how much they cussed and drank and gambled and chewed; no matter how undelectable they were, there was something about them that I instinctively liked... they