Perception In To Kill A Mockingbird

An old writer, Aldous Huxley, once said, “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” This quote explains that everyone has different perspectives, but they can change when more knowledge is acquired. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is set in the south during the 1930’s when many struggle to see other people's perspectives. The trial of Tom Robinson; an innocent, black man who is convicted of raping a white woman, causes the people of Maycomb to see racism in a perspective that they normally don’t think about. Jem’s limited perspective of Maycomb changes over the course of the novel due to the experience of the trial and the time spent with Mrs. Dubose.
At the beginning of the novel,