To Kill A Mockingbird is a powerful book about a small town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930’s. Lee uses multiple literary devices to support her ideas of America’s history in the eyes of a young girl, Scout Finch. As she grows up, problems of race confront her and her family. Her father, Atticus has positive opinion on how society should be, where everyone is treated the same. Prejudice is a problem in history that can be changed by a person’s good morality. Lee specifically uses aphorisms and the symbol, the mockingbird.
When Atticus raises Jem and Scout, he tries to instill good morals into their mind. In the upcoming quote Atticus is explaining to Scout that she cannot question why a person acts a certain way until she experiences life the way that person does, in Scout’s case that is Miss Caroline. ‘“First of all,’ he said, ‘if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-’ ‘Sir?’ ‘until …show more content…
After all the years that Scout and Jem had wondered about Boo Radley, Scout was surprised to learn that he was a nice person, compared to what the rumors of Maycomb said about him. The whole town did not know him and yet they made hysterical assumptions of Boo’s personality “An’ they chased him ’n’ never could catch him’ cause they didn’t know what he looked like, an’ Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things… Atticus, he was real nice...” (Lee 376). This shows readers how Scout was even surprised to discover that Boo was a nice person, and that she falsely judged him. “‘Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.’” (Lee 376). Lee uses aphorism in the final paragraph of the book to explain further her thoughts of prejudicial beliefs in society and how prejudice can be changed with the right ideas in
When Atticus raises Jem and Scout, he tries to instill good morals into their mind. In the upcoming quote Atticus is explaining to Scout that she cannot question why a person acts a certain way until she experiences life the way that person does, in Scout’s case that is Miss Caroline. ‘“First of all,’ he said, ‘if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-’ ‘Sir?’ ‘until …show more content…
After all the years that Scout and Jem had wondered about Boo Radley, Scout was surprised to learn that he was a nice person, compared to what the rumors of Maycomb said about him. The whole town did not know him and yet they made hysterical assumptions of Boo’s personality “An’ they chased him ’n’ never could catch him’ cause they didn’t know what he looked like, an’ Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn’t done any of those things… Atticus, he was real nice...” (Lee 376). This shows readers how Scout was even surprised to discover that Boo was a nice person, and that she falsely judged him. “‘Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.’” (Lee 376). Lee uses aphorism in the final paragraph of the book to explain further her thoughts of prejudicial beliefs in society and how prejudice can be changed with the right ideas in