Due to the Tom Robinson trial, Scout learned lessons that she would remember all her life. Before the trial, Scout never knew Maycomb for its mistreatment towards blacks. She did not have much knowledge about blacks, and not until she witnessed the trial did she notice the management of blacks in her own town. She started understanding the hostility towards blacks after Atticus became the lawyer of Tom Robinson, and even experiences the mistreatment herself. She

As Scout grew older, she matured and learned essential lessons about life from Boo Radley. Through her town’s intolerance, Scout eventually is taught that things are not always what they seem. Arthur “Boo” Radley was a man that was mistaken and was treated as harmful in Maycomb despite the fact that no resident in Maycomb has proof of that. Arthur was known to have murdered his mother, and because of that, he never left the house. Due to such rumors and the notorious reputation he had in Maycomb, Scout automatically assumed that these stories are correct, “Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom” (8). She blamed Boo for Maycomb’s problems and believed stories about him even though they were untrue. For many months, she is deceived by these rumors, not giving another possibility much of a chance. But slowly she began to realize that he is a gentle, sweet person who brought them gifts in the knothole of the tree. He was someone who considered them to be like his own children and the brave hero that saved them from Bob Ewell. She learned this lesson throughout the novel, and shows her maturity many times. She showed her compassions and proves that she has learned the lesson of judging when she finally meets Arthur for the first time. “You can pet him Mr. Arthur, he’s asleep...” (278). She also learned a lesson about people in general. Scout understood them more as she grew, and this lead to her understanding of people such as Arthur. After endless torture to Boo, Scout found out that most people are kind, even if they do not come off that way, “‘…when they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things…Atticus, he was real nice.’ ‘Most people are

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