When Atticus fails to understand that Boo was the one who killed Bob, Scout explains Atticus a lesson which is usually visa versa, that you must never kill a Mockingbird and by exposing and giving him the negative publicity towards Boo it would be like killing him in a way. This is the major turning point in Scouts maturity because she finally sees Boo not as evil but as a gentle creature just stuck in a bad situation. Although Scout matured drastically she still managed to be daddy’s little girls when she falls asleep on Atticus’ lap when he reads to her. This is only normal because even though Scout learned so much she is still so young and has a lot more to learn in
At christmas, Atticus gives Jem and Scout air rifles as gifts. He tells the two that he would prefer they shoot at cans, but wagers that they may be tempted to shoot at living things. He tells them if they must hunt birds, they can shoot all the blue jays they want to, but to never kill a mockingbird. "Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Scout realized it was the only time she had ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something.
Scout takes this lesson all through the book and keeps reminding the readers of this life lesson. The life lesson of it's a sin to kill a mockingbird is shown when Atticus buys Jem and Scout air rifles for Christmas. Upon receiving the air rifles Atticus tells Jem” Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." Scout asks Miss Maudie why it is a sin to kill a mockingbird "They don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" From this life lesson Scout learns that, that life lesson doesn't just apply to birds but also humans in fact Tom Robinson.
Also, his empathy for other beings is shown when later on in the book, Scout is about to crush a roly-poly. Right before she does, Jem says that she shouldn’t. In return, she asks why. He then says that it had never harmed Scout in any way so why should she harm it. This shows a reference to what Atticus and Miss Maudie had said earlier in the book about mockingbirds.
To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee is a story of racial prejudice and social class, set in a time when such narrow mindedness was considered acceptable and apart of every day life in the small town of Maycomb. A widower, Atticus raises his children by himself, with the help of kindly neighbours and a black housekeeper named Calpurnia. Scout and Jem almost instinctively understand the complexities and machinations of their neighbourhood and town. This novel takes place in 1930’s in a typical southern society. Once Atticus chooses to defend Tom Robinson, a black man, Scout faces many challenges and she discovers numerous facts about life.
Literary Analysis of Generational Differences in Mississippi Trial, 1955 Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe is set in Greenwood Mississippi in the 1950’s. It is written on events around the abduction and the murder of Emmitt Till, a black young teenager. Trial of Emmitt’s murder through generational differences of Hiram, Grampa and Hiram’s dad Harlan. Grampa Earl Hillburn is Hiram’s favorite person in the world. Grampa does not like black folks.
When she goes to the leader of the group Ann Putnam to ask about joining the group she is rejected. She wants to go back to ask again but she does not want to act desperate and be made fun of. While delivering goods to the poor of Salem for her parents shop she visits a reverend’s slave, Tituba. She visits Tituba to learn more about what the other girls have been discussing. She asks Tituba if she knows what the girls have been up to and all she says is that the girls have been doing devil worshiping.
An example of point of view in treating people equally occurs with Miss Caroline Fisher. After Miss Caroline asks Scout to read The Mobile Register she says “… tell your father not to teach you anymore” (Lee, 19). When she gets home, Scout tells her dad this and that she doesn’t want to go back to school. Atticus says “You can never really understand a person from their point of view until you climb into their skin and walk around in it” (Lee, 33). Another example of point of view in treating people equally occurs with Arthur (Boo) Radley.
Scout states, “Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.” (31.23) The older Scout has gotten, the better she can understand other
Before crossing the male figure, she could acknowledge that she was not Mary-Ann, as the White Rabbit accused her of being, and she decidedly prevented any animal from finding her in the house; she did not like to feel degraded. However, around the caterpillar, she stutters, completely doubts who she is, and tries to prove the legitimacy of her feelings by telling him that he will feel the same way (weird and doubtful) when he turns into a chrysalis (the transition between being a larva and a butterfly). She is not used to feeling drawn to men in a sexual way and does not know how to control her feelings of discomfort, much less how to act around them, thus even reciting a poem