Answer:
It changes your way of understanding because as you get closer your perspective of that object,that is; the way too see it will be different.
The whole To Kill A Mockingbird was told from a point of view when Scout was grown up so she realized then, but as a child she was innocent so she did not realize that they was a mob in the first place. So for a short answer No she was aware.
An example:-
A murder done by someone is a punishable offence