As Diane Grim once said,” It’s better to walk alone, than to walk with a crowd going in the wrong direction.” In the book, To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus and Scout are both very involved in their society of Maycomb, but go against some of their mainstream ideals. People can be a loyal member of a society yet oppose to the society’s standards.
Not all of Maycomb, Alabama residents agreed with the town’s prevalent racism and segregation. Atticus, a white lawyer in the town of Maycomb, was providing voluntary legal representation of a black man accused of committing a crime against a white woman, which was frowned upon by many of the town’s white residents. Atticus respected other people’s opinions “...but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience,” (Lee …show more content…
Scout was resistant to being “lady-like” all the time. When Scout was asked about her attire for Christmas dinner, she stated that, “…I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches, when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she [Aunt Alexandra] said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants,” (Lee 108). Scout fought with her Aunt Alexandra about her dress attire frequently. Scout’s aunt thought she should be doing girl things and wearing frilly dresses, not running around in overalls, playing with boys. Furthermore, Scout’s tomboy behavior was looked down upon by some of her family members. Scout was expected to, “…be a ray of sunshine in my [Scout’s] father’s lonely life. I suggested that I could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well, but Aunty said I had to behave like a sunbeam,” (Lee 108). Scout wanted to be free and make her own decisions but her actions went against what her relatives expected her to behave. Scout’s dress attire and actions were not the conventional female
Not all of Maycomb, Alabama residents agreed with the town’s prevalent racism and segregation. Atticus, a white lawyer in the town of Maycomb, was providing voluntary legal representation of a black man accused of committing a crime against a white woman, which was frowned upon by many of the town’s white residents. Atticus respected other people’s opinions “...but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience,” (Lee …show more content…
Scout was resistant to being “lady-like” all the time. When Scout was asked about her attire for Christmas dinner, she stated that, “…I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches, when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she [Aunt Alexandra] said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants,” (Lee 108). Scout fought with her Aunt Alexandra about her dress attire frequently. Scout’s aunt thought she should be doing girl things and wearing frilly dresses, not running around in overalls, playing with boys. Furthermore, Scout’s tomboy behavior was looked down upon by some of her family members. Scout was expected to, “…be a ray of sunshine in my [Scout’s] father’s lonely life. I suggested that I could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well, but Aunty said I had to behave like a sunbeam,” (Lee 108). Scout wanted to be free and make her own decisions but her actions went against what her relatives expected her to behave. Scout’s dress attire and actions were not the conventional female