What are direct quotes about how Scout and Jem Finch lose their innocence in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?

After witnessing Tom Robinson become a victim of racial injustice, Scout and Jem lose their childhood innocence. Jem and Scout react differently to Tom's wrongful conviction, though. Immediately after hearing the verdict, Jem breaks into tears and asks Atticus how the jury could find Tom guilty. The next day following the trial, Miss Maudie invites the children over to eat cake. When Maudie tells Jem not to fret, he says,

"It's like bein' a caterpillar...

After witnessing Tom Robinson become a victim of racial injustice, Scout and Jem lose their childhood innocence. Jem and Scout react differently to Tom's wrongful conviction, though. Immediately after hearing the verdict, Jem breaks into tears and asks Atticus how the jury could find Tom guilty. The next day following the trial, Miss Maudie invites the children over to eat cake. When Maudie tells Jem not to fret, he says,

"It's like bein' a caterpillar in a cocoon, that's what it is. . . Like somethin' asleep wrapped up in a warm place. I always thought Maycomb folks were the best folks in the world, least that's what they seemed like" (132).

Jem becomes jaded with the prejudiced citizens of Maycomb. Jem is emotionally scarred when he learns his neighbors are racists who are willing to harm innocent black people.

Although Scout is upset at the verdict, she does not become jaded with the community of Maycomb. Scout does begin to notice the hypocrisy of her community members. After losing her childhood innocence, Scout gains perspective of the overt prejudice surrounding her. In Chapter 25, Scout reads Mr. Underwood's editorial and says,

Senseless killing—Tom had been given due process of law to the day of his death; he had been tried openly and convicted by twelve good men and true; my father had fought for him all the way. Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed (147).