What Does Jem Learn In To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
Childhood provides the opportunity to learn some of life’s most valuable lessons. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, we see the truth of this statement. One lesson learned, is that to understand a person's reasoning, one must first see the world from his or her point of view. We see Scout do this with Jem, after he visits the Radley lot:
As Atticus once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him. (Lee 77)
Here is one of the many examples of where Scout applies what she has learned from Atticus. To “walk around in Jem’s skin,” means to sympathize with him and to understand Jem’s behaviour before pestering him and making judgements. Scout realizes that if she was in Jem’s position, “[her] funeral would have been held the next afternoon,” meaning she would have been worse off than Jem and would not have wanted to be bothered either. Another lesson taught to us in the novel, is that …show more content…
She recognizes that “nobody’s born knowin’” how to read and write; that Walter was only held back in school, to work on the farm and not due to his intelligence. This quote comes directly after Jem tries to comprehend, how social classes and race, fit into Maycomb County’s hierarchy system of families, but when Scout says that there is “only one kind of folks,” it shows that she does not separate whites from blacks, and rich men from poor men. To her there is only one kind of people and, those people are unseparated by bias and prejudice. In conclusion, childhood has provided Scout the opportunity to learn about understanding people through sympathy, about the meaning of true bravery and about the importance of equality in her
Childhood provides the opportunity to learn some of life’s most valuable lessons. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, we see the truth of this statement. One lesson learned, is that to understand a person's reasoning, one must first see the world from his or her point of view. We see Scout do this with Jem, after he visits the Radley lot:
As Atticus once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him. (Lee 77)
Here is one of the many examples of where Scout applies what she has learned from Atticus. To “walk around in Jem’s skin,” means to sympathize with him and to understand Jem’s behaviour before pestering him and making judgements. Scout realizes that if she was in Jem’s position, “[her] funeral would have been held the next afternoon,” meaning she would have been worse off than Jem and would not have wanted to be bothered either. Another lesson taught to us in the novel, is that …show more content…
She recognizes that “nobody’s born knowin’” how to read and write; that Walter was only held back in school, to work on the farm and not due to his intelligence. This quote comes directly after Jem tries to comprehend, how social classes and race, fit into Maycomb County’s hierarchy system of families, but when Scout says that there is “only one kind of folks,” it shows that she does not separate whites from blacks, and rich men from poor men. To her there is only one kind of people and, those people are unseparated by bias and prejudice. In conclusion, childhood has provided Scout the opportunity to learn about understanding people through sympathy, about the meaning of true bravery and about the importance of equality in her