The story To Kill A Mockingbird is mostly about Jem and Scout’s childhood. The story is told from Scout perspective so you can see how a child can get really frustrated when everything that supposed to happen doesn’t. That childhood innocence the thought of humanity that privilege that we all got was taken away from Jem and Scout when they were young. As they grow older they realize and understand that the world is a cruel place and that most people are selfish. Jem and Scout see this happening as we do throughout the book with the guilty verdict in Tom Robinson’s trial and the cruelness of Bob Ewell. As the novel progresses, Scout and Jem struggle to maintain faith in the human capacity for good in light of these recurring instances of human evil. Jem and Scout see another side of their father that they may not have wanted to see. But when Atticus Finch, Scout’s dad, shoots the mad dog, Scout’s perspective of her dad changes. Scout’s memory of her father shooting the dog does pop up more than once in situations involving Tom. When Scout was going to sleep she remembers Atticus folding his newspaper and pushing back his hat but then the memory turns into Atticus standing in the middle of an empty street waiting, pushing up his glasses and she remembers the night’s events of shooting, and begins to cry. When Atticus loses the case Scout and Jem don’t understand how there could be so much injustice even after all that proof and just because there a different race. They cry because they don’t like the reality of the people and how everything is so undignified. The relathionship of Jem and Scout changes Jem doesn’t want Scout around as much when he’s growing older. He finds Scout annoying .
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