s growing up and becoming a more mature everyday and she should start showing it. She also learns why her father often repeated the lesson that to understand another person, on must try to see things in their point of view. She can see why her Aunt and the missionary ladies act the way they do in trying to get Scout to be a proper young lady as she should be. As the novel reaches it’s climax, Scout has to deal with very mature situations, though she may not fully understand the situation to it’s full extent, one would say she would be one step closer to womanhood. Scout always knew that her father was a lawyer and that he defended people, no matte what colour, nationality or race who were accused of something or charged people who did something wrong. What Scout did not understand was, why the Tom Robinson case was so big and why so many people started to question her father. Jem, Dill and Scout decided to follow Atticus one night. In the novel Scout learns that the visit was about Tom Robinson and as she quoted in the book later, she realized it was a sickeningly comic aspect of an unfunny situation (Lee, p151) That night she learns of the racism that sounded Maycomb. For Scout, coming to terms with adult prejudice is like awakening to a whole new world of ugliness. It takes some time before she regains her equanimity, but her innocence is lost forever, for she is reveled to the real world of betrayal, racism and backstabbing. Another example in which Scout becomes more mature due to a situation is at the end of the novel; Bob Ewell attacked her and Boo Radley saved her and Jem and she had to “understand” that Boo Radley didn’t kill Bob Ewell and that he had killed himself by falling on the knife. In other words, she would have to understand that sometimes, things are better when they are left unsaid. From the beginning to the end of the novel we see a lot of changes in Scout as she grows up. In every situ...
