"Mockingbirds don't do a thing but make music for us to enjoy...but sing their hearts for us." (90). However, a mockingbird's symphony can be destroyed as easily as the innocence of a child. Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, sets place in the early 1930s in the small town of Maycomb located in Southern Alabama. Scout, the narrator and protagonist of the story, is a nearly six year old child at the beginning of novel. She is portrayed as an innocent girl who is uncorrupted by the world of hypocrisy, prejudice and racism. Her world is a simple, sensible and carefree. However, by the end of the novel, her world has grown by a journey to adulthood and maturity portrayed by events that shatter her innocent world as easily as killing a mockingbird.
             Scout meets Dill in the beginning of the novel, who represents her carefree childhood life. His absence symbolizes Scout slowly approaching the adult world, and her childhood life fading away. She begins to realize that there is more to the world than "Dill by the fishpool smoking string" and "Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley emerge" (116) as the book progresses.
             Scout was surrounded by racism and prejudice as child, but until she matured more, she didn't see it for what it really was. To young Scout, Calpurnia was always there in replace of her deceased mother, therefore; she never saw Calpurnia as black or white. Calpurnia acted as a bridge between the black community and the white. It is not until Calpurnia took Scout to a black church with her, that she realized "Calpurnia led a modest double life..." (125) The idea that Calpurnia had separate existences outside her household made Scout notice that there was a whole different world within the small town of Maycomb that she thought she knew; therefore, she slowly begins to realize the racial discrimination between the two races.
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