Kill A Mockingbird, By Harper Lee - 2489 Words

As a child, there are many moments that contribute to growing up and losing innocence. Some of these moments help define a person and enrich their personalities as adults. These can be as little as meeting a new person or as large as moving across the world. Being a child in a new environment exposes them to many new opportunities they may not have had prior. This can be very important when it comes to growing up. Every experience and conflict an adolescent has to overcome makes them lose a portion of their innocence and become more of an adult. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout Finch experiences many things such as starting school, playing with her neighbor Boo Radley, witnessing a rape trial, and living with her aunt Alexandra.†¦show more content†¦They used their large imagination to build up their treehouse and hear the different stories of the outside world from Dill. Being young children in a small town, they were fascinated by all of the movies Dill told them about. Her childish innocence is clearly depicted through her â€Å"routine contentment†. Her daily routine again describes her innocence as she discusses her usual walking path. Being the little kids that they are, they do not have many responsibilities in life other than normal exploration and having fun. From their perspective, the world works just like they do, every neighborhood is the same. Scout describes this by saying â€Å"Jem and I were trotting around our orbit one mild October afternoon† (79). Their fresh, small minds are only aware of their usual surroundings, they have no bearings of the real world around them. As far as they are concerned, they focus on their small neighborhood with all of the people they have grown up with. Jem and Scout do not spend much time exploring new things but rather reinventing the small portion of the world they retrace day by day. They interact with the same people, visit the same places, and have an overall small perspect ive of the real world. This very clearly displays Scout’s child like behaviors because they have not yet experienced any lifestyle rather than their own. She and her brother, Jem view their â€Å"orbit† as the world they should associate with. In addition, her innocence is also described when Scout and her