Ethics In To Kill A Mockingbird

Over the course of a child’s life, ethics are developed and as the children grow, society expects children to be cordial and civil and cease with the child-like behavior. When children begin attending school, the principles of being fair and treating their counterparts as equals become prominent. As the students grow more mature the events of the past impart knowledge on to the students, the history of humankind becomes conscious, and the generation now becomes the heir of the continuation of a peaceful existence. Childhood exposes students to bedtime stories, fairytales, and other fictional stories, but when a child reaches the age of conscious awareness for their actions, the redundancy used in novels with moral centers are not critical to the growth of the …show more content…
Considering students learn ethics from their parents, social environment, and peers, the need for teaching them a moral code is unnecessary through literary works.
Prose compels an exceptional argument on the skepticism she feels towards literary works because of the lack of complexity for diversity. Values develop and change throughout the duration of an individual’s life and literary works are unable to universally modify the reader’s values to align with the author’s. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee examines the coexistence of ‘good and evil’ in society by how Tom Robinson was not guilty, but still faced the eventual betrayal by his accuser, Mayella Ewell. A modern student understands the history behind Jim Crow laws, but they do not experience the same social norms as the time period discussed in the novel. When educators harp on the diversity in the novel, they miss the complexity in the writing of Harper Lee. The novel loses language and the meaning because educators are conditioning students to think about the era and the big picture instead of discussing how every section of the novel fits