In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout a young girl in Maycomb, Alabama, begins to realize many incidents that cause her to lose her innocence. First, Scout loses her innocence when she realizes that Maycomb is a racist community. Second, she realizes that not everything in life is fair. Eventually, she realizes that she shouldn't look at someone and judge them based on what society sees of them. Scout loses her innocence through her awareness of the world. Throughout the book, Scout realizes that Maycomb is a very racist community. First, Francis, Scout's cousin, makes fun of Atticus, Scout's father. “He’s nothing but a ***** lover!” (110) This is very significant because Atticus is Francis' uncle and Francis should not treat an uncle this way. Mrs. Dubose also insults Atticus: "Your father is no better than the nigger and trash he works for!" (135). Scout loses her innocence because her own cousin and old women make fun of her father. This shows how racist people are. Just because a white man defends a black man, people start insulting him. When Scout and Jem went to church with Calpurnia, a woman named Lula said, "You don't have to bring white chilluns here, they have their church, we have ours" (158). When it comes to white people coming to black people's church, she really starts to get angry. She says they are not allowed in the white people's church and white people are not allowed in the black people's church. This shows how racist Maycomb County is because there are two races, black and white, who don't like each other. This is how Scout realizes that Maycomb is racist. Scout realizes that not everything in life is fair. During the school day, Miss Caroline, the teacher, asks Walter for a quarter. Wal...... middle of paper ......r, never understand that I live, I do it because that's how I want to live” (268). There is a reason he pretends to be drunk because he is married to a black woman who he loves so when people ask him they would know why he loves her because he is drunk, he doesn't know what he's doing. He pretends to society that he is drunk, but in reality he is not. Don't judge someone by society, but how you judge them. In conclusion, Scout realized that Maycomb County is racist because of what happened at the church. Second, she realized that not everything was fair because of Tom's case. Finally, judge someone as you see them and not as society judges them. Boo was known as a villain, but in the end he saved the lives of two people, Scout and Jem. Scout loses her innocence at a young age because of all the realizations she had to go through,