The Theme Of Responsibility In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Goals, Problems, or Responsibility?
Harper Lee explores the story of two young children learning to become adults through all of their struggles in her historical fiction novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. With the opportunity to be able to learn to transition into adulthood from childhood, it brings many blessings but also many curses. Becoming an adult from an innocent child comes from many key components. The pieces of the puzzle for how children are taught to move from their innocent child-like state of being to adulthood are the ambitions of the child, discipline that occurs as a consequence of conflicts with the child, and the responsibility the child gains.
The very first part of how a child is taught to move to adulthood from childhood is through their ambitions. Scott D. Scheer, Stephen M. Gavazzi, and David G. Blumenkrantz capture the quote of G. Stanley Hall as he, Stanley Hall, “...[the author of the two-volume work Adolescence] described …show more content…
Discipline is the end reaction, or result, of conflicts. Discipline is a huge part of a child’s conflicts because it lets them know between right and wrong. To be able to truly move to adulthood, one must learn the differences between good and bad as Scheer, Gavazzi, and Blumenkrantz further clarify in their article, Rites of Passage During Adolescence, how “Various academic disciplines have emphasized differently the impact of social context variables on adolescent development into adulthood” (Scheer, Gavazzi, and Blumenkrantz 1). As Scheer, Gavazzi, and Blumenkrantz depicted, discipline has a huge effect on sociality while transitioning into adulthood, just some types of discipline more than others. As a result of discipline being the effect of conflicts, a child’s social abilities is affected by the types of it given to a child. This is how a child is taught to move from innocent childhood to
Harper Lee explores the story of two young children learning to become adults through all of their struggles in her historical fiction novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. With the opportunity to be able to learn to transition into adulthood from childhood, it brings many blessings but also many curses. Becoming an adult from an innocent child comes from many key components. The pieces of the puzzle for how children are taught to move from their innocent child-like state of being to adulthood are the ambitions of the child, discipline that occurs as a consequence of conflicts with the child, and the responsibility the child gains.
The very first part of how a child is taught to move to adulthood from childhood is through their ambitions. Scott D. Scheer, Stephen M. Gavazzi, and David G. Blumenkrantz capture the quote of G. Stanley Hall as he, Stanley Hall, “...[the author of the two-volume work Adolescence] described …show more content…
Discipline is the end reaction, or result, of conflicts. Discipline is a huge part of a child’s conflicts because it lets them know between right and wrong. To be able to truly move to adulthood, one must learn the differences between good and bad as Scheer, Gavazzi, and Blumenkrantz further clarify in their article, Rites of Passage During Adolescence, how “Various academic disciplines have emphasized differently the impact of social context variables on adolescent development into adulthood” (Scheer, Gavazzi, and Blumenkrantz 1). As Scheer, Gavazzi, and Blumenkrantz depicted, discipline has a huge effect on sociality while transitioning into adulthood, just some types of discipline more than others. As a result of discipline being the effect of conflicts, a child’s social abilities is affected by the types of it given to a child. This is how a child is taught to move from innocent childhood to