To Kill A Mockingbird Character Development
Everybody experiences change in their life. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Jem grows up during his time in Maycomb, and he begins to understand the town and it’s negatives. Maycomb is packed with negatives, starting from the discrimination between blacks and whites, and the four kinds of folks, each treated worse or better. Jem is able to embrace the town and learn from it through major events taken place in the novel. As Jem starts to understand the social classes, two reasons that prove this are his understanding of the town’s groupings and his understanding of what occurred in the courtroom, the readers relate to the development through the understanding of differences in people and society. Jem starts to realize that
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For example, in school and work we see bullying, and exclusive groups. The reader can relate the victim of a bullying scene to Tom Robinson because just like Tom Robinson, the victim is discriminated against, but rarely stood up for. One quote said by Atticus Finch was, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin, and walk around in it”(Lee 39). Atticus says this referring to the blacks of Maycomb, and just like bullying victims, the reader may look different or dress uniquely, and get judged for it, but the reader could be the nicest person in the town. And, until the bully witnesses their personality, the bully can not say they are different, or rude. Victims are picked on for no reason and do not feel strong enough to stand up for themselves, and the blacks in Maycomb are treated the same, they get punished for things the town and themselves know they did not do. The problem is no person feels strong enough to stand up for the victim. Miss. Maudie said, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119). Miss. Maudie says this because she is saying people who are innocent are destroyed by evil, like Boo Radley or Tom Robinson. Boo Radley is like a mockingbird because mockingbirds do not harm people but rather “sing their
For example, in school and work we see bullying, and exclusive groups. The reader can relate the victim of a bullying scene to Tom Robinson because just like Tom Robinson, the victim is discriminated against, but rarely stood up for. One quote said by Atticus Finch was, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view...until you climb into his skin, and walk around in it”(Lee 39). Atticus says this referring to the blacks of Maycomb, and just like bullying victims, the reader may look different or dress uniquely, and get judged for it, but the reader could be the nicest person in the town. And, until the bully witnesses their personality, the bully can not say they are different, or rude. Victims are picked on for no reason and do not feel strong enough to stand up for themselves, and the blacks in Maycomb are treated the same, they get punished for things the town and themselves know they did not do. The problem is no person feels strong enough to stand up for the victim. Miss. Maudie said, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy . . . but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” (Lee 119). Miss. Maudie says this because she is saying people who are innocent are destroyed by evil, like Boo Radley or Tom Robinson. Boo Radley is like a mockingbird because mockingbirds do not harm people but rather “sing their