How Does Atticus Influence Scout To Respect Others

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Final Draft Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life and what you’ve become yourself”. In Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus influences Scout in several significant ways. Her father guides Scout to treat everyone equally. Atticus shows Scout how to solve things with her mind, and not by fighting. Finally, Atticus influences Scout to respect others. As Scout comes of age in this novel, she is strongly influenced by her father’s value system. Scout is strongly influenced by Atticus to treat everyone equally. Atticus wants everyone to be treated equally no matter what their race is or how they live. When Atticus is talking to Walter you can see that he treats everyone equally. “Atticus greeted Walter and began a discussion about crops neither Jem…show more content…
Her father guides Scout to treat everyone equally. Atticus shows Scout how to solve things with her mind, and not by fighting. Finally, Atticus influences Scout to respect others. As Scout comes of age in this novel, she is strongly influenced by her father’s value system. Scout learns that everyone should be treated equally that not because of the color of their skin and race they should be treated different. Also thanks to what Atticus has taught her she learned how to solve problems with her mind and not by fighting. Finally, Atticus showed Scout that everyone should be treated with respect. Scout is getting older and understanding the way of life in this novel she learns that life in Maycomb is not easy for a lot of people. To what she saw in the trail she learned that life isn’t easy that not everyone gets what they want and just because of the color of their skin someone else may be punished for something they didn’t do and that could ruin the life of innocent
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