“‘Hey.’
‘Hey yourself,’ said Jem pleasantly.
‘I’m Charles Baker Harris,’ he said. ‘I can read.’
‘So what?’ I said.
‘I just thought you’d like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin’ I can do it…’” To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, Alabama around 1930. Discrimination is a huge problem and everything is run by white men. Black people are mistreated and abused. This comes into the story later as the main conflict. The Finch family has always lived on Finch's Landing until Atticus Finch, one of the main characters, moves away to Maycomb, Alabama. He went to law school and he began to practice law in this small town. He and his two kids, Jem and Scout, live happy in the small southern town they call home. Jem and Scout meet …show more content…
“His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd. ‘It ain’t right,’ he muttered…” (284). Readers are told how Jem doesn’t believe that it's right that Tom Robinson is executed for a crime he didn’t commit. This illuminates the idea about kids’ reactions and how they are growing due to those reactions. “‘Will you take me home?’ He almost whispered it, in a voice of a child afraid of the dark.” (372). They learn about Boo and how he really is, scared. The author is trying to show how the prejudice leads to the growth of the kids by realizing they were wrong. Harper Lee tells the readers about how growing up came from the prejudice in the trial and the prejudice towards Boo. The idea that prejudice leads to the growth of children is a main idea in the book To Kill A Mockingbird. All children have a time in their life where they prejudice. This helps them grow up when they are shown how the world really is. So if a child, (Jem and Scout), judge someone or labels someone, (Boo Radley), and they find out that they are nothing like how they pictured, they will realize and learn not to label someone
‘Hey yourself,’ said Jem pleasantly.
‘I’m Charles Baker Harris,’ he said. ‘I can read.’
‘So what?’ I said.
‘I just thought you’d like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin’ I can do it…’” To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in Maycomb, Alabama around 1930. Discrimination is a huge problem and everything is run by white men. Black people are mistreated and abused. This comes into the story later as the main conflict. The Finch family has always lived on Finch's Landing until Atticus Finch, one of the main characters, moves away to Maycomb, Alabama. He went to law school and he began to practice law in this small town. He and his two kids, Jem and Scout, live happy in the small southern town they call home. Jem and Scout meet …show more content…
“His face was streaked with angry tears as we made our way through the cheerful crowd. ‘It ain’t right,’ he muttered…” (284). Readers are told how Jem doesn’t believe that it's right that Tom Robinson is executed for a crime he didn’t commit. This illuminates the idea about kids’ reactions and how they are growing due to those reactions. “‘Will you take me home?’ He almost whispered it, in a voice of a child afraid of the dark.” (372). They learn about Boo and how he really is, scared. The author is trying to show how the prejudice leads to the growth of the kids by realizing they were wrong. Harper Lee tells the readers about how growing up came from the prejudice in the trial and the prejudice towards Boo. The idea that prejudice leads to the growth of children is a main idea in the book To Kill A Mockingbird. All children have a time in their life where they prejudice. This helps them grow up when they are shown how the world really is. So if a child, (Jem and Scout), judge someone or labels someone, (Boo Radley), and they find out that they are nothing like how they pictured, they will realize and learn not to label someone