In to kill a mocking bird Atticus is the main characters father. They live in Alabama town of Maycomb. Maycomb is suffering through the Great Depression, but Atticus is a prominent lawyer and the Finch family is reasonably well off in comparison to the rest of society. One summer, Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill, who has come to live in their neighborhood for the summer, acts out stories together. Eventually, Dill becomes fascinated with the spooky house on their street called the Radley Place. The house is owned by Mr. Nathan Radley, whose brother, boo, has lived there for years without venturing outside. Scout goes to school for the first time that fall and detests it. She and Jem find gifts apparently left for them in a knothole of a tree on the Radley property. Dill returns the following summer, and he, Scout, and Jem begin to act out the story of Boo Radley.

To kill a mocking bird is about coming of age and seeing the rights and wrongs in life. Scout and Jem’s change from a view of childhood innocence and how they assume that people are good because they have never seen evil. Then they change to an adult view on the bad things in life. As a result of this expose they change drastically. They were not prepared for the evil that they encounter, and, as a result, they are destroyed.

Scout and jem become different. When a child’s innocents are taken away it’s like the child is gone. The whole point of being a child is to prepare you to become an adult. If you make a huge leap and become an adult as a child it messes with you.  You’re not ready to know about the bad things as a child. All you know about as a child is having fun and being taken care not death and horror. That’s ho Jem and scout change in the book.

This connects to real world, because everyday kids are becoming adults whether they’re ready or not. I don’t think there is a decision on becoming an adult, you just know when. You have more responsibilities. Some kids in other country’s today are being trained to be soldiers they didn’t have a choice hey were forced to grow up. That’s what this book relates to it says how growing up can come whenever there’s no set date for growing up it just happens.