"What does Bildungsroman mean? Bildungsroman pertains to novels and
it's main character, or who the story is told by (narrator). In the
novel To Kill a Mockingbird, the story unfolds through the eyes of
six year old girl named Scout.
The story takes place in the small southern town of Maycomb, Alabama
during the early 1900s where prejudice was at its peak.
Many people have siblings, sometimes they are the older sibling and
they watch how their younger brother or sister develops into an
adult. You may notice that their attitudes change. You may also see
how they loose a quality that all babies and young children have, innocence.
Most likely your brother or sister will look up to you as their role
older more responsibility will be put upon them. They will learn the
little secrets that your parents have kept hidden from them. Your
sibling will experience things for themselves. He or she will no
longer rely on you or your parents for help. They have now lost all
their innocent qualities. This is exactly the same as Scout and Jem,
Scout in this case watched how Jem grew out of his "kiddish" acts.
In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, the main character Scout was a
little girl who was 6 years old. She had an older brother, his name
was Jem. Jem and Scout played together and did not rely on Atticus,
their father. Then after many summers of Jem and Scout playing
together something changed...Jem changed. He no longer wanted to
play with Scout. She watched his "transformation" take place. Scout
went to school, she learned new things that she would have never
have known before, a word called prejudice.
An innocent 6 year old was brought out of innocence and brought into
experience. She watched as Atticus defended a black man. The black
man was on trial for rape. Scout knew he was innocent, so did the
rest of Maycomb. She went to court with Atticus; she experienced how
the blacks were treated differently then whites. Scout sat up with
other black because her family was disliked because her father
defended a black man. On the last day of the trial, she sat in the
court room waiting for the verdict to be read, she though to
herself that the black man is going to be acquitted. The verdict
was in, GUILTY. An innocent man has been convicted of rape. Scout
experienced how blacks were treated differently then blacks.
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