Atticus Life Lessons

In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are many life lessons told to the reader. Scout, the narrator, is living during a time where there is discrimination against blacks. Atticus, Scout’s father, tries to explain to Scout that this discrimination in not right. Miss Maudie, a neighbor of Scout, also tries to teach Scout and Jem life lessons. Through Atticus and Miss Maudie, Scout learns very important life lessons to guide her through her life. These life lessons of empathy, personal integrity, courage, optimism and knowing not to harm something that has not harmed anyone can be learned by the reader in his or her life.
In the story, Atticus tries to explain to Scout what empathy is. Scout talks about her rough day in school. …show more content…
They also need to have courage and not let society blind them from what the right decision is. All of these life lessons can be used today. Today, some hispanic people are treated harshly because some of them are in gangs. But that does not mean every hispanic person is bad because others like them are in gangs. Atticus explained to the children that they should not do this; not everyone is like these stereotypes that are in society. In the same case, if everyone puts themselves in these hispanic people’s shoes them they would see that what people are doing to them is wrong. Society should not blind these people to believe that being racist is fine to do. They can have their opinions but when it starts to affect someone who has done nothing wrong to get this treatment, they should realize that they need to change their opinions and the opinions of those around them. Situations like that can be solved by these life lessons that the characters of this novel tell Jem and