In the beginning of the story when Scout first started school, Atticus told 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.” (30) This helped the kids see the world from other people’s perspectives, and taught them an important lesson of understanding other people’s situations, and motives for their actions. Atticus taught Scout and Jem courage through the death of Mrs. Dubose, an old morphine addict who finally rid herself of her addiction before she died. Atticus told Jem that because Mrs. Dubose tried to die free of her addiction, she was “the bravest person [he] knew.” (112) He said, “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see through it no matter what.” (112) Jem wound up reading to Mrs. Dubose weekly as a punishment, and when she died Atticus told him that he would’ve had Jem do it anyway, saying “Most of the time you were reading to her I doubt if she heard a word you said. Her whole mind and body were concentrated on that alarm clock… It may have been some distraction” He made everything that happened in the kids lives into a lesson for them, and taught them courage and
In the beginning of the story when Scout first started school, Atticus told 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.” (30) This helped the kids see the world from other people’s perspectives, and taught them an important lesson of understanding other people’s situations, and motives for their actions. Atticus taught Scout and Jem courage through the death of Mrs. Dubose, an old morphine addict who finally rid herself of her addiction before she died. Atticus told Jem that because Mrs. Dubose tried to die free of her addiction, she was “the bravest person [he] knew.” (112) He said, “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see through it no matter what.” (112) Jem wound up reading to Mrs. Dubose weekly as a punishment, and when she died Atticus told him that he would’ve had Jem do it anyway, saying “Most of the time you were reading to her I doubt if she heard a word you said. Her whole mind and body were concentrated on that alarm clock… It may have been some distraction” He made everything that happened in the kids lives into a lesson for them, and taught them courage and