Examples Of Misunderstanding In To Kill A Mockingbird

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In life people will misunderstand you not everyone will understand what your saying or doing. In the book “To Kill A Mockingbird” shows misunderstanding in society because the characters don’t understand why one of the characters is defending a negro. This is shown in a child’s point of view because this child went thru all these misunderstandings in society.

People will misunderstand what you will say because they might understand something else then what said. For example, one of the characters, Dill doesn’t have a father and told one of the other characters, Jem. He misunderstood what Dill said because Jem thought Dill’s father was dead. Dill’s father isn’t dead he just loft somewhere else. People won’t always understand

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