Home-Based Education System In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee
In Harper Lee’s timeless novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, a home-based education system is emphasized throughout the story. The book’s protagonists, Jem and Scout Finch, journey through a world of deceit and biases, but their father, Atticus, helps put the children’s chaotic lives into perspective. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee supports an education through the family by making Scout and Jem’s school the center of their many problems. The institutionalized school systems of today prove her ideas, which also find support in the teachings of the Catholic Church.
The younger of the two Finch children, Scout, starts school for the first time near the beginning of the story. She has a terrible experience on her first day and immediately …show more content…
Harper Lee’s novel emphasizes the importance of a family-based education, and the terrible results that come from a state-run school and its influence on family life. Many children are put into public schools by their parents who would rather spend time working, or going on vacations with the extra money they did not want to spend on a private education. This can be demoralizing for the child. The lack of charity and sacrifice shown by the parents can ruin the child’s future. Harper Lee provides a key example of this problem with the comparison of the Finch and Ewell families. Bob Ewell is a drunk and has little affection for his children. His family is broken, and his daughter’s corrupted decisions in the courtroom result in the execution of an innocent man. Atticus Finch and his children present the alternative to this lifestyle. Jem and Scout are both extremely intelligent and socially aware because of their father placing their well-being as his main priority. The two children understand other people and their suffering as they take Atticus’ advice to heart. The Ewell children had no influence from a moral father figure. The broken home in which they reside and the school that they attend each day continue to create problems for them. The presence of a parent or authority figure of morality in the lives of the young influence the way they live in the
The younger of the two Finch children, Scout, starts school for the first time near the beginning of the story. She has a terrible experience on her first day and immediately …show more content…
Harper Lee’s novel emphasizes the importance of a family-based education, and the terrible results that come from a state-run school and its influence on family life. Many children are put into public schools by their parents who would rather spend time working, or going on vacations with the extra money they did not want to spend on a private education. This can be demoralizing for the child. The lack of charity and sacrifice shown by the parents can ruin the child’s future. Harper Lee provides a key example of this problem with the comparison of the Finch and Ewell families. Bob Ewell is a drunk and has little affection for his children. His family is broken, and his daughter’s corrupted decisions in the courtroom result in the execution of an innocent man. Atticus Finch and his children present the alternative to this lifestyle. Jem and Scout are both extremely intelligent and socially aware because of their father placing their well-being as his main priority. The two children understand other people and their suffering as they take Atticus’ advice to heart. The Ewell children had no influence from a moral father figure. The broken home in which they reside and the school that they attend each day continue to create problems for them. The presence of a parent or authority figure of morality in the lives of the young influence the way they live in the