To Kill a Mockingbird (What Lessons Scout Learns)
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
WHAT LESSON SCOUT LEARNS
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the main character Jean Louise Finch (AKA Scout) learns a lot of lessons. But I think the lesson she learns can be categorized in 3 categories, which are life, people and society.
Scout learns 3 important things about life in the book. One thing she learns is that life is unfair. She experiences this in a court case with her dad defending a black man named Tom Robinson who is accused for raping Mayella Ewell the daughter of Bob Ewell. Mr. Atticus had very good reasons on why Tom should not be accused of rape and everyone in the court including the jury and judge were sure that he would win but at the end of the case the jury decided that Tom is the one who raped Mayella just because he of his skin colour. The reverend knew this would happen when he said, “… I ain’t ever seen a jury decide in favour of a coloured man instead of a white man…” (Lee 79) The next she learns is from her dad Atticus; he teaches her that violence is not the only way to solve problems. At school a boy named Cecil Jacobs calls Atticus a nigger lover because he is supporting Tom Robinson. When Scout heard this she beat up Cecil. When Atticus heard about this, he told Scout to “hold [her] head up high and keep [her] fists down” (Lee 101). The last thing Scout learns about life is that people are considered good on what they do not what they claim about themselves. She learns this when Ms. Maudie tells her that, “If Atticus Finch drank until he is drunk he wouldn’t be as hard as some men at their best. There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live this one, and you can look down the street and see the results....but now...I’ll say this: Atticus Finch is the same inside his house as he is on the public streets.” (Lee 60). So these are the main things about life that Scout learns in the novel.
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WHAT LESSON SCOUT LEARNS
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird the main character Jean Louise Finch (AKA Scout) learns a lot of lessons. But I think the lesson she learns can be categorized in 3 categories, which are life, people and society.
Scout learns 3 important things about life in the book. One thing she learns is that life is unfair. She experiences this in a court case with her dad defending a black man named Tom Robinson who is accused for raping Mayella Ewell the daughter of Bob Ewell. Mr. Atticus had very good reasons on why Tom should not be accused of rape and everyone in the court including the jury and judge were sure that he would win but at the end of the case the jury decided that Tom is the one who raped Mayella just because he of his skin colour. The reverend knew this would happen when he said, “… I ain’t ever seen a jury decide in favour of a coloured man instead of a white man…” (Lee 79) The next she learns is from her dad Atticus; he teaches her that violence is not the only way to solve problems. At school a boy named Cecil Jacobs calls Atticus a nigger lover because he is supporting Tom Robinson. When Scout heard this she beat up Cecil. When Atticus heard about this, he told Scout to “hold [her] head up high and keep [her] fists down” (Lee 101). The last thing Scout learns about life is that people are considered good on what they do not what they claim about themselves. She learns this when Ms. Maudie tells her that, “If Atticus Finch drank until he is drunk he wouldn’t be as hard as some men at their best. There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live this one, and you can look down the street and see the results....but now...I’ll say this: Atticus Finch is the same inside his house as he is on the public streets.” (Lee 60). So these are the main things about life that Scout learns in the novel.
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Cited: Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird. New York: Grand Central, 2010