The parents in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” differ from parents today. In chapter 10 Scout says that Atticus is different from the other parents because he doesn’t play poker, drink, fish or smoke, to Scout this is a bad thing but if she thought about it that’s a good thing because he isn’t gone every day playing poker or spending all his money on smokes and beer. This tells us most of the other parents smoke, drink, fish and go hunting. Parents still do these things but kids don’t think of that as a good thing like kids in the book do. In the book the parents also just let their kids roam free, I understand why they would because they didn’t have to worry about the stuff that we have to worry about today but still the kids are playing
