Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee tells the story of her childhood in the 1930's in this novel. She makes up fictitious characters to provide the privacy of her hometown and people. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Scout is the main character and Harper Lee's fictitious name. The reader watches Scout mature throughout the book in a number of different ways. Scout gains a lot of maturity when she goes to school for her first time, has to help her brother Jem read to Mrs. Dubose, and when she goes through the experience of the trial.
Scout's first major experience in which she grows and matures a lot is when she is just six years old. Scout begins school when she is six years old at kindergarten in the town of Maycomb. Scout's first day of school wasn't very pleasant and she didn't enjoy it at all. "If I didn't have to stay I'd leave. Jem, that lady says Atticus's been teaching me to read and for him to stop it--" (pg. 18) said Scout. …
