How does Dill Harris change in "To Kill a Mockingbird", and why is he important to the novel?It also needs to reference something specific from the...

Dill does what the other children in the novel do. He grows up. When younger, he is the one who instigates much of the children's mischief, the most important of which is approaching the Radley house. This action initiates the first contact between "Boo" and the Finch children which eventually leads to the children's rescue by Boo. Many critics believe the character of Dill was based on the real author Truman Capote, who was a childhood friend of Harper Lee, the author of "To Kill a Mockingbird". Lee later collaborated with Capote on "In Cold Blood", Capote's best seller about a murder in Kansas. Some even feel that Capote helped Lee quite a bit with "To Kill a Mockingbird".