Growing up in "To kill a Mockingbird"

In the book To Kill a Mockingbird it's a book about a girl name Scott and her coming of age moment. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird Scott's coming of age moment I guess would be when Tom (a black man her father has to defend in a case) is sent to jail for a crime he does not commit. And I guess this can speak to the coming of age experience because it's like in life racism over rules the right the thing. And so this can be Scott's coming of age moment because she releases that in life the hatred towards a persons race will sometimes over rule the right thing to do. I guess an other coming of age moment is when Scott finally meets Boo Radley and through out her life she's heard so many bad things about him. Like he cut (or stabbed) his father with a scissors, or that he eats cats for a living and things like that. so when Scott and Jem are in trouble he actually steps in and helps them. And this can relate to coming of age because it can be like if you meet a person you would think differently than hear a rumor about them and automatically make a judgment of them in your mind.

I guess what the author is trying to say when your a child you think the worlds to you. I guess you have a sense of innocents of what's going around you than when your an adult. And you get to be free and wild when your younger. And then when you become an adult you start to realize the things around you, like in Scott's case she really didn't understand why everyone hated black people. And then when her father started to pick up this case she started to realize that racism is a very big thing in her town. Also when she started to grow up she started to wear skirt and dress. And in the book people judge the way her father razed her saying that it wasn't right to let her run around in overalls, and in one of the quotes it says that it's one thing to have her and her brother running around like wild dogs but another that he's a black lover. And I guess she realized that people judge her for what she was wearing and this can say that in life people judge you for what you wear.

I guess what Lee Harper is trying to say about growing up is that you start to realize the things you didn't notice when you were younger. Like people aren't who you think they are. This can relate to growing up because you can hear something about this person and it can be the total opposite of what the person really is. And this works in the book because she hears so much gossip about Boo and she thinks he's a monster but in life he's just a regular person (who doesn't leave his house but you get the point). And then also that in life it isn't fair. Like you can see that in life people would go with their hatred towards a person than to what's the right thing.

And I think that this book shows us that you should stand up for what you think is right. Even if people shun you and they hate you and say terrible things to you. It's the right thing to do the right thing. In the book Atticus stands up for the right thing even if he is shunned in the town and he doesn't care because it's the right thing to do. And in the book it is told that there are a lot of people who do agree with Atticus but are to afraid to say this. And this can be related in life because people do stand up for whats right (most of the time) for what's right. And that the book title does have something to do without he tittle because in the book it's wrong to kill a mockingbird because they do nothing wrong to us. And it I think it does relate to Tom because he was innocent and he did nothing wrong so they killed a mockingbird or Tom because he was killed.