Scout Grows Up Quickly Essay

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Scout's Maturation in to Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird addresses many issues that were relevant at the time of its writing and which are still relevant today. The book details the financial woes of the Great Depression. It deconstructs the state of race relations in the United States. Most importantly, however, it provides a tale about growing up and maturing in a society that has a number of deep rooted prejudices and convictions, and which frequently expects people (especially young people) to believe them without understanding them. This final aspect of this novel is its most important, because it illustrates the maturation process that Scout undergoes while growing up. Scout is able to mature throughout this book by gaining the ability to take another person's perspective to understand why he or she acts as he or she does, without simply accepting society's reasons for those actions.

The veracity of this particular thesis is evinced in a number of different ways and in many different events that Scout goes through for the duration of the novel. Perhaps the most convincing evidence for this thesis is that Scout is expressly told that understanding is predicated on vicariously experiencing the life and livelihood of another by her father, Atticus.

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In fact, the lawyer tells his daughter, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point-of-view…until you climb into his skin and walk around in it" (30). Initially, Scout is unable to comprehend this advice, and is more apt to judge other people without empathizing with their positions -- which is why she dislikes Miss Caroline (30). This inability on her part, however, merely emphasizes the fact that she is young and not mature enough to fully think for herself about other people and their actions. However, this sagacity from her father sets her in motion to try to understand the viewpoints of others prior to judging them -- which is a sign of maturity.

Perhaps the main way that Scout is able to evince her maturation process is through her interactions with Boo Radley, christened Arthur, and son of Scout's neighbor Nathan. Radley is something of a shut-in who has not been seen in some time. Early on in the book, Scout (accompanied by her brother and her friend Dill), inadvertently tease Boo by play acting a story that is about him (50). They do so in….....

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