To Kill A Mockingbird Innocence Quotes

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Ashley Lopez
Pre AP English 2
Mrs. Wilbanks
22 January 2018
"I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn"(Lee 162). Jem, Dill, and Scout went through events and experienced things that changed who they were and in doing so, they lost a piece of themselves. When people are exposed to real world problems, they may become more aware of the true nature of the world and at the same time lose a part of them, their innocence.
By the end of the book, Jem Finch knows that the world isn't what he thought it was when he was younger. After Tom Robinson’s trial Jem talks to scout about how "if there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other?"(Lee 162). Jem realizes that not everyone is treated the same whether it be because of their skin, like Tom, or the way they act, like Boo Radley. He's learning that people are treated differently even though all men are created equally. Jem is coming of age and realizing the world is not the same as he had once seen. He’s learning that what he once thought the world was is different from the reality of it

During Tom Robinson’s trial, Dill starts crying and leaves the courtroom because he was sickened by the way Mr. Gilmmer was being towards Tom. Dopholus Raymond tells him that when he gets older "he won't get sick and cry. Maybe things'll strike him as being-not quite right, say, but he won't cry..."(Lee 163). Dill seeing Atticus tell Helen about Tom being killed is quite traumatic for a child and then having to tell the story again, it wouldn't have been a surprise if Dill cried. He doesn’t cry, because he isn’t as surprised by the fact that there are bad things in the world because he’s already witnessed them, and by this happening, he’s grown up and he understands how it