weather. Scout tries to make an effort in pleasing her
             Aunt and joins them for a while.
             P From Heck Tate and Atticus, the destructive implications of
             society's prejudice, even if Scout has not yet been able to
             fully appreciate why prejudice exists.
             Scout's important educational experiences all seem to take place outside school. She is switched off by school where the teacher's lessons seem to be totally out of touch to the children's lives.
             By the end of the book Scout has successfully managed to take on Atticus' key lesson in the book that being able to '...climb into someone's skin and walk around in it' is to see things from another persons point of view. Her behaviour with Boo has transformed dramatically from that the beginning. However, she is still a child, and after the traumatic incident with Robert Ewell she goes back to her reading of The Grey Ghost, a book that she was reading at the beginning of the book. She feels that she has learned all she can for the moment.
             At the beginning of the book, Jem likes to play superstitious games about Boo Radley with Scout and Dill. The start of Jem's period of maturity is noticed when:
             P Jem goes to get his pants after losing them in the Radley's
             garden. He is more worried about Atticus finding he has lost
             his pants than being caught by Mr Radley.
             P Scout's comment about when she and Jem start to part
             P Jem organises the building of the snowman. He doesn't see
             this as a game, but takes a mature
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