“The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked White Only; the handful of people who say a fair trial is for everybody, not just us; the handful of people with enough humility to think when they look at a Negro, there but for the Lord’s kindness am I… The handful of people in this town with background, that’s who they are.” (Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird). People develop through the ages taking on values and becoming different people in society. It is common in life, that during the course of extreme changes or difficulties, people change their beliefs and personality to adapt. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Jem and Scout Finch go through those changes. The story is set in a small and quiet town in Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. It talks about how Jem and Scout grew up during racial prejudice times and how it affects the Finch household. There is trial that took place when an innocent and poor African American man named Tom Robinson who was been accused of rapeing a white woman named Mayella Ewell. Scout’s father Atticus Finch took the case in defending the African American man. Scout faced many different experiences and challenges while growing up in Maycomb, Alabama. Many changes happened throughout the book in which Scout’s character matures and starts understanding life. ‘The Radley Place didn’t terrify me anymore. I sometimes felt a bit of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley – what reasonable recluse wants children peeping through his shutters, delivering greetings on the end of a fishing-pole, wandering in his collards at night?’ (Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird). Scout is understanding the Radley Place wasn't scary, it was just a man who lived in the house that did not want to be bothered. She was understanding reasons for why he stayed in the house and did not want to come out. Scout felt bad for what she did by constantly pestering him and wanting to see who he is, trying to make him come out. “Scout, I think I’m beginning to understand something. I think I’m beginning to understand why Boo Radley’s stayed shut up in the house all this time… it’s because he wants to stay inside.” (Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird). Jem and Scout are realizing why things are how they are. The reasons to why people do certain things. Scout learned not to judge someone on beliefs or rumors and to understand that
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He was right. As I walked home I thought about all that Jem and I had learned.” (Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird). Scout was realizing how much they grew up through that whole year. She was now understanding Atticus and what he meant and by his actions. She faced many struggles throughout that year and understood why it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. The theme of this story is that people can be innocent such as a mockingbird but have been injured or destroyed by contact with evil. “Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts, Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.” (Harper Lee’s To Kill a
He was right. As I walked home I thought about all that Jem and I had learned.” (Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird). Scout was realizing how much they grew up through that whole year. She was now understanding Atticus and what he meant and by his actions. She faced many struggles throughout that year and understood why it was a sin to kill a mockingbird. The theme of this story is that people can be innocent such as a mockingbird but have been injured or destroyed by contact with evil. “Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts, Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.” (Harper Lee’s To Kill a