To Kill A Mockingbird Coming Of Age Analysis

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Taking a walk in someone else's shoes
Perspectives; the ability to see the important facts of something in proportion to one another. Realizing things from different perspectives can be difficult,very difficult. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Scout and Jem are on a journey of realizing things through different perspectives throughout the story. The reader may connect to this novel where Scout and Jem needed to get cleaned and dressed up for church, for example, going to church with your family, mom, or guardian they will possibly be similar to how Calpurnia was acting.In this novel To Kill a Mockingbird this scene is mentioned before calpurnia takes them to church. The scene in Calpurnia's church in To Kill Mockingbird by Harper Lee demonstrates the coming of age theme recognizing different perspectives through the use of conflict, character, and voice.
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After Jem, Scout, and Calpurnia enter Calpurnia's church Lula a member of Calpurnia's church comes and approaches them with commotion. Lula says, “I want to know why you bringin white chillun to our [black folks’] church; you ain't got no business bringin white chillun here, they got their own church”(p#158). The author includes this in the novel to show the readers how conflict is demonstrated and that even whites had issues with racism, not only blacks. The author includes perspectives by trying to have the readers image how Lula must be feeling having white children in their black folks’ church. The author not only wants the reader to image how Lula must be feeling, but also how Scout and Jem are feeling standing in a black folks’ church having everyone speak about