Education And Ignorance-To Kill A Mockingbird

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Education and Ignorance in To Kill A Mocking Bird It seems that in today’s society as well as in the past, people who receive an education usually end up better off in life, whether the person’s success is with a career, raising a family properly, financially, or even just being a good person in general. In the book To Kill A Mocking Bird the author, Harper Lee shares excellent examples of education and ignorance. For example, Atticus Finch (a character from To Kill A Mocking Bird) is a successful lawyer and also state legislature. According to www.bls.gov.htm, 7 years of schooling is required to join an attorney. Just knowing the number of years of law school Atticus had to go through obviously shows that he is a hard worker and it most definitely paid off. Atticus and his two children Scout and Jem live in an elegant, nice, safe home. They even have a maid named Calpurnia who cooks, cleans, and sometimes acts as Scout and Jems’ mother. The children have moral support from adults who love and care about them. From a young age Atticus would read Scout and Jem magazines, books and newspapers. He makes his children go to school every day to receive the right kind of education so they can grow up and be successful also. He always treats his children with respect and encouragement. Calpurnia, being colored, even took the children to her church knowing that it may be uncomfortable for the congregation because racism was occurring at the time and the children were white. She must have cared about those kids. As you probably can tell, the Finch’s have a pretty wealthy life-style, and without Atticus’s education, it most likely would not be that way. On the other hand, proving ignorance in this book, there is Bob Ewell. Bob Ewell is unemployed, has an aggressive temper and lives on the outside of town by the city garbage dump. Around the town of Maycomb, he and his
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