Part one of term paper
“Coming of age” is a process in life by which a person matures by learning valuable lessons and gaining a sense of responsibility. Lee portrays this process of “coming of age” in To Kill a Mockingbird through her two main characters, Jem and Scout. Jem and Scout live in Maycomb County with their father, Atticus, and their housekee ...

Part two of term paper
... struggles help them mature by helping them to change their one-sided views about people. Their struggles include facing and dealing with Mrs. Dubose and understanding her problems, being able to change their views about Atticus after the confrontation with Tim Johnson and encountering the town’s racist ways through the injustice of the court trial, and finally determining the identity of and becoming friends with the mysterious “Boo” Radley. To Jem and Scout, Mrs. Dubose was a mean old ...