The first lesson that Scout shows us is that you need to put yourself In other people 's shoes. I really appreciated that lesson because I could relate that lesson to the same lesson from the one that we learned watching the video about the collars and that was defiantly an eye opener, but reading this book and seeing a 6 year old little girl do just that was astounding. That little girl learned something that sometimes take many many years for other people to learn and …show more content…
Atticus uses it as the literal meaning when he gives Scout and Gem a air riffle and he says they can shoot whatever bird they want except mockingbirds because they only produce music and don 't cause mischief. Atticus uses it as a metaphor to teach them to never hurt or do anything that would affect the innocent in any way that would be bad. This metaphor count for all of society but because African Americans are different they are usually ones that are innocent are just accused because it is easy to blame someone that is