To Kill A Mockingbird is about the narrator's growth of awareness. It belongs to a type of novel writing, which describes a character's development from childhood to maturity; it focuses on their identity, experience and education. The narrator is taken from a period of innocence through to a state of comparative maturity.

Chapters 1-11 of the book are the chapters in which the children learn the most about life because they focus specifically on Scout and Jem. Their learning doesn't stop here, and a new lesson is learned about aspects of life in almost all chapters, for example, through their observation of, and participation in, events during and following the trial.

A mature narrator who is looking back on herself as a child tells the story. Scouts naivety and childish view of the world is highlighted by the way that the readers' can often understand events better than Scout. Over the course of this book Scout learns many lessons:

P From Calpurnia that politeness should be shown to all

Both these major types of courage are evident in the major plot of the book:

P They both show kindness- Boo, to the children, Tom, to

P Miss Maudie- by the foot washers, for her love of nature.

P The Black and White segregation in Maycomb.

P From Atticus, to control her hastiness in chapter 9 and to

even if their manners differ from your own, (like in

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Approximate Word count = 2299
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)