Ashley Smith
ENG3C
January 16, 2015
Ms. Kausen
To Kill a Mockingbird Essay
To Kill a Mockingbird goes beyond the issues of racism and legal judgment as it is also a
‘coming of age story’ about the loss of innocence. The author, Harper Lee, incorporates
the theme of maturity through Jem and Scout Finch and Dill Harris. Scout Finch, who is very
curious and precocious, is around the ages of 6 to 9, she is the narrator of the story so it makes
it interes2ng to hear the story from a child’s point of view. Jem Finch, Scout’s older brother, is a
very brave young man who ages from 10 to 13 during the story. Dill, like Scout, is very
observant, but tends to hide his feelings in jokes and lies, from 7 to 10. Scout learns so much in
this 2me period plus she begins to understand things she could not figure out before. Jem deals
with many di5cult issues but learns to overcome things as he goes on. He grows to become a
young man, a man who his father would be proud of. Dill matures throughout the novel, he is
already an outsider to Maycomb so he sees the community in a di6erent prospec2ve. These
three characters go through events that help their development and allows them to begin to
