To Kill A Mockingbird Importance Of Understanding
The Importance of Understanding
Children are empty cups waiting to be filled, filled with understanding. But in order to understand children must first experience. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the story of a young child to show how children do not understand experiences that are new to them. Harper Lee tells the story from the perspective of a child, Scout Finch, to show Scout’s lack of understanding in order to highlight a child’s coming of age experiences. Harper Lee uses Scout’s coming of age experiences to show that a child’s experiences with the world will shape their perception of the world in a positive or negative manner.
The different experiences that Scout has with Boo Radley show how children change their perspectives of people after understanding them. In the earlier stages of the book, Scout and Jem, her brother, fantasize about Boo and think of him as kind of a monster. Scout’s father, Atticus, once said “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb around in his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 22). This proceeds to become true later in the book when Scout walks Boo home and sees things from his perception. Scout then realizes that Boo is a person to and not the fabled monster everyone makes him out to be. Scout’s experiences …show more content…
Throughout the book Harper Lee shows events and people that children don’t understand. Because the book is told from a child’s perspective the reader is allowed to see what the narrator can and can’t understand. As time passes in the book, Harper Lee shows how Scout understands more and more while also showing how her view on the world has changed based on what she understands. From the beginning of the book to the end Scout’s view on the world around her has changed because of the new knowledge she possesses from her experiences in the
Children are empty cups waiting to be filled, filled with understanding. But in order to understand children must first experience. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the story of a young child to show how children do not understand experiences that are new to them. Harper Lee tells the story from the perspective of a child, Scout Finch, to show Scout’s lack of understanding in order to highlight a child’s coming of age experiences. Harper Lee uses Scout’s coming of age experiences to show that a child’s experiences with the world will shape their perception of the world in a positive or negative manner.
The different experiences that Scout has with Boo Radley show how children change their perspectives of people after understanding them. In the earlier stages of the book, Scout and Jem, her brother, fantasize about Boo and think of him as kind of a monster. Scout’s father, Atticus, once said “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view – until you climb around in his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 22). This proceeds to become true later in the book when Scout walks Boo home and sees things from his perception. Scout then realizes that Boo is a person to and not the fabled monster everyone makes him out to be. Scout’s experiences …show more content…
Throughout the book Harper Lee shows events and people that children don’t understand. Because the book is told from a child’s perspective the reader is allowed to see what the narrator can and can’t understand. As time passes in the book, Harper Lee shows how Scout understands more and more while also showing how her view on the world has changed based on what she understands. From the beginning of the book to the end Scout’s view on the world around her has changed because of the new knowledge she possesses from her experiences in the