Scout main source of valuable lessons came from Atticus. He shows her the meaning of life and how people will be the way they are at school, or …show more content…
In the beginning she believed what everyone told her about him, his family and house. “From the Radley chicken yard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecan would kill you”(11). “A negro would not pass the Radley place at night”(11). In Maycomb it was all about gossip so when people said he looked this way and they never meet them other people in the town believed them. “Inside the house lived a malevolent phanton”(10). “People said he existed, but Jem and I have never seen him”(10). Boo Radley is a examples of a “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”(119). Because of the stereotypical nature of society they have wraped their views and changed him into something he is not. As Scout matures she is able to realize more and more about Boo Radley and how his a human being, just like her and everyone in town. By that she begins to leave things for him and also starts to call him by his first name ( Arthur …show more content…
She also resized how some the black people feel about whites. “Lula stopped, but she said, you ain’t got no business bringing white chillun her, they got their church, we got outlr’n”(158). This made scout see that it’s not only the whites that feel this why about blacks but also the other way around. When Tom Robison died she couldn’t believe it but was now able to realize more about the cruelty of man kind and how an incent black man with loving family can be charged for something like rape but then be killed at the end. “To Maycomb, tom death was typical, typical of a nigger mentality to have no plan”(322). With that nobody in the town of Maycomb was said about Tom Robison death except the black community and scout and her