The Road to Maturity in To Kill a Mockingbird

Key episodes contribute to Scout’s maturity. What does she learn from the following:

• First day at school
• Gifts in the tree
• Miss Maudie’s house on fire
• Scout fights Francis
• Atticus shoots the mad dog
• Jem destroys Mrs. Dubose’s camellias
• Scout and Jem go to Cal’s church
• Dill runs away
• Scout and the lynch mob
• Tom Robinson’s trial
• Aunt Alexandra’s tea
• Boo rescues the children from Bob Ewell

 

Madness and its different forms

Who and how in the novel shows madness? List some characters and briefly explain their madness according to the following forms.

Insanity              Anger        Blindness/Ignorance                  Fear