To Kill a Mockingbird Loss of Innocence

Many young children view the world as if it is the best place ever, that everyone is a kind and gentle person. But as the same kids begin to go to school they learn that what they thought was not true. One of the first things they learn from their parents is to not to talk to strangers. At that moment they realize the world may not be all butterflies and angels. In novel the To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Scout, Scout, who is a young innocent girl, has learned through a crisis faced by the town that the world is an unfair place, and towards the end she begins to understand the lessons she has learned.

Scout is about to turn six when the book begins. Scout and her brother Jem have met a new kid named Dill, and they play throughout the summer. The begin playing the backyard every day. They are acting out characters from Tom Swift and The Rover boys. Then they try to get Arthur Radley (Boo) to come out. These playful acts are meant to cause to harm, they do not know that what they are doing may be bad.

While these games go on, they reach appoint where they almost get killed by Nathan Radley’s shotgun. That night they realize that what they have been doing is real and has consequences. During Christmas they receive air rifles from their father, but are told not to shoot mocking birds. They did not understand why until Miss. Maudie told them that mockingbirds don’t do any harms except provide music for everyone to hear. The trial that her father was about to take part in was changing her life.