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Student`s Name: Instructor:Course: Date: Growing Up The novel To Kill a Mocking Bird was authored in 1960 by Harper Lee. The novel features a number of key themes such as growing up. The author uses two characters, Scott and Jem in a variety of ways to develop the theme of growing up. Throughout the novel, Scout grows up in her own way. She does not accept what she sees but questions what she doesn't understand. The ability to understand and see things from the point of views of other persons is an integral part of growing up. Scout goes to school and finds herself in a momentary conflict with her own teacher. The teacher is not pleased with her because Scout already can read. Her father, however, is keen to make her see and understand that she needs to develop the capability to get things from another individual`s point of view. He says to her, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you`ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. 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 ”(Lee,7). Scout’s father, in this statement, is simply trying to make her understand that in order to have a meaningful relation with other people, she would have to open up her mind. The understanding of the point of views of other people is what brings about the meeting of the minds in any situation. Therefore, for Scout to achieve this, she would have to grow up. In Scout’s journey to maturity, she realizes that she needs to respect the views of other people. For instance, Tom Robinson`s defense by her father is not popular at all, and she finds herself in situations where she
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