Compare And Contrast Dill And Scout's Life

Dill and Scout’s lives are different from one another because they are raised from different communities. Scout was raised in Maycomb County in Southern Alabama and the people she was surrounded with weren’t the most educated. There were many poor families in the community and the whole town itself wasn’t a place for Scout to mature to her full potential. Maycomb County is a tired old town where there weren’t many things to do. Dill was from Meridian, Mississippi and the town was a more wealthier place than Maycomb because Dill was fortunate to go to picture shows plenty of times. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, it said “She gave the money to Dill, who went to the picture show twenty times on it. ‘Don’t have any picture shows …show more content…
Jem taught Scout to be more kind to others as he was the more thoughtful of the Finch children. In addition, Jem is also a deep thinker and can understand situations of others and how to deal with them. In the novel, when Scout was about to hurt Walter Cunningham for getting her in trouble, it says “ I stomped at him to chase him away, but Jem put his hand out and stopped me. He examined Walter with an air of speculation. ‘Your daddy Mr. Walter Cunningham from Old Sarum?’ he asked, and Walter nodded. … Jem suddenly grinned at him. ‘Come on home to dinner with us, Walter,’ he said. ‘We’d be glad to have you.’” (Lee 30) This quote showed that Jem understood that Walter was poor and didn’t have a lunch to eat so he invited him over for dinner. A brother like Jem made Scout able to learn her mistakes and to look at situations from a different perspective. Dill’s life is vastly different from Scout’s life because Dill doesn’t have parents like Scout’s parents despite the death of Scout’s mother. Dill was sent to Maycomb County every summer to live with his aunt Miss Rachel. This showed that Dill’s parents didn’t give him the time and attention he needed as they clearly needed a few