To Kill A Mockingbird Lessons Essay

One of the main lessons that Scout learns in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is that you can’t fully understand who someone is until you walk in his shoes, a lesson that Scout learns while standing on Boo’s porch and seeing from his point of view. When Scout gets home from her first day at school with Miss Caroline, she recounts the “crimes” of her day. Scout sits on Atticus’s lap and tells him about Miss Caroline’s notion that he shouldn’t have taught Scout to read, and after some contemplation, Atticus says to her, “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.” (Page 39) When Atticus first enlightens Scout with this knowledge, she doesn’t really