The book that I have chose to read is To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. So far I have read halfway through the book. This book is about how a little girl Scout Finch who lives with her brother Jem and her father Atticus in which they are going through the Great Depression. Scout and her family live in a racist white community in Maycomb, Alabama. This book showed many ways of Scout and her coming of age.
Scout and her life are much more further than other kids her age in her town. She has a coming of age that not much other kids in her town get to experience. Many of these examples come down to how 'unusual' Scout is. Scout knows how to read and is intelligent with her smarts before school even started. She is always fighting with boys and is never scared of them yet she is always nice and acts with a great behavior. One of the most 'unusual' thing about Scout is how she is a tomboy (a tomboy is rare in her town). All of this information are in the first half of the book and explains so much to me.
What I think about her unusual coming of age of that Scout is who she is because of the way her father Atticus is raising her. He is the guide to her behavior by showing her it doesnt matter in what she has to be, as long as it is not wrong and bad. That is one reason of why Scout is a tomboy. While all other girls are wearing dresses, Scout wearing overalls and goes on many adventure with Jem such as climbing trees.Scout stands up for what she thinks is right and wrong and she doesn't care what anyone else thinks.
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