Maturation In To Kill A Mockingbird Essay

“Maturation in the Eye”

As a child grows up, a multitude of people help them to mature into the young adults they assure to be. These people can be parents, teachers, celebrities, or even friends. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lee shows the maturation of a child through a young girl’s perspective named Scout. The novel takes place in Maycomb, Alabama where many situations conflict causing the children, Scout and Jem, to eyewitness maturation. Maycomb’s community endure many remonstrations surrounding one major event, the trial. Numerous situations help Scout and Jem “come of age” that help them see the racism, immorality, and inequality in their community.

In a child’s mind, racism may not be clear to the eye at first. Throughout the novel Scout and Jem encounter situations of witnessing racism from the people

To emphasize, Jem states, “There's four kinds of folks in the world. There's the ordinary kind, like us and the neighbors, there's the kind like the Cunninghams out in the woods, the kind like the Ewells down at the dump, and the Negroes”(Mockingbird 230). Therefore, it can be inferred there are social classes throughout the town and they are unequal. The people of Maycomb also believe that blacks are lesser than the white people in their community(Kamolins). As a result, the quote stated shows the “come of age” of Jem as he can see the four different social classes and their wrongdoing. It also displays that Jem matured by mentoring his younger sister, Scout by explaining the inequality in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. In effect, Scout invites Walter Cunningham over for dinner which demonstrates the maturation of the young adolescent. Although the siblings Aunt talks to them about social classes, it upsets Scout. This also portrays maturation because Scout now understands and clearly sees the inequality through her own