Tom Robinson Transformation

In the book, it is a normal life for Scout, how her and Jem were always playing around, going to school, just being kids. Sadly, that starts to change further in the middle of the book when it starts to go downhill. When she starts to realize that her race are not kind to colored people and how she starts to realize the older she gets the more family and friends want her dress and act more like a lady. But she didn’t see anything wrong, she was happy with herself. Toward the middle of the story, she started realizing that the people of Maycomb stared acting different because of the case with Tom Robinson but scout has no Idea what was going on she had no idea why people were getting so angry with her father over what she thought was just …show more content…
Because later in the case even scout knew that, he didn’t do it. She knew that the girl was lying, just by the evidents and the way he spoke kindly. She started to understand that the most people of Maycomb would never see Tom Robinson as a good human bean because of his color but it didn’t faze her as it faded Jem and Dill. In chapter 19 Tom Robinson explains to Atticus how she came on to him and said “I’da had to push her. I didn’t want to harm her”. He tried to do it as nicely as possible without hurting her. But the people didn’t see it like that. After the case Tom Robinson was pleaded guilty Jem knew that they did it because of his skin color because in chapter 22 Jem says “How could they do it, how could they?” and Atticus replied with “I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it- it seems only children weep”. It’s amazing how children know what’s right from wrong, the people of Maycomb that girl lied and I guarantee that most of the people in that court knew that, but they didn’t care because of the color of his skin and scout and Jem realized it and opened up their eyes about how their town really