Childhood Presented in To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee and The Blu

Childhood Presented in To Kill a plaguy bird by harper Lee and The Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonChildhood should be a time of great learning, curiosity, joy,playfulness and guiltlessness. The reality is that it can be a time ofextreme vulnerability and dependency. The innocence and fragility of achild is easily manipulated and abused if not nurtured and developed.Family relationships are crucial in the flourishing of young minds,but other puerility associations are serious too. These includeschool life, friends, play and peer-group. Both novels portray thesefactors and their effects on the character formation of theirsubjects, to some extent and, show that growing up can be a painfulprocess greatly speed up by the events that the children encounter.Scout and Jem are the daughter and son of Atticus Finch, a widowedlawyer based in Maycomb, twenty miles from Finchs Landing the familyplot. They are a white, middle class family who watch a black machinate/housekeeper. Their story is w ritten in To Kill a Mocking Bird,which was produce in 1960. Its author, Harper Lee, was a whitewoman who incorporated galore(postnominal) of her own childhood experiences into thebook. She too came from a small, sleepy town in Alabama, her ownfather was a lawyer and her childhood friend was Trueman Capote, fromwhom she draw inspiration for Scout and Jems friend Dill. Perhaps themost influential of the events that occurred during Lees childhoodwas the Scottsboro Trials, where nine innocent young black men wereaccused of raping two white women. This was undoubtedly theinspiration for the climax of the novel, the rape trial of gobblerRobinson. Lee wrote the novel in the late 1950s at the beginning ofthe cultivated Rights Move... ...nced, and easy toread way. The character of the narrator Scout is infused with wit and sense of humor and she paints pictures of lazy summer days at play, whilestill managing to stagger with the rape trial and its aftermath. Hercharacters develop thr oughout the novel by a series of moralisticencounters with neighbours and family, until by the end of the novelScout realises that they have learnt so oft and remarksAs I made my way home, I though Jem and I would get grown but therewasnt much else left for us to learn, except possibly algebra. (ToKill a Mocking Bird, P308)Lee certainly gets her point across but does so in a gentler, lessharrowing way.BIBLIOGRAPHYTo Kill a Mocking Bird, Harper Lee, William Heinemann Ltd, 1960.The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, Picador, 1990.- OTHER RESOURCES USEDwww.sparknotes.comwww.pinkmonkey.com