Morals
Do people learn life lessons from even the smallest situations? Big or small, there are moral lessons learned in almost everything you execute in life. A moral lesson is teaching or exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior. Think of life lessons you yourself have learned, that you feel changed your point of view on an idea. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, written by Harper Lee, takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The narrator is the protagonist, a young girl, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, who is 6, 7, 8, and 9, throughout the story. Scout has an older brother, Jem, which are both raised by a single father, who is a lawyer, who has equal views on life. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ has Scout …show more content…
Towards the end of the novel, Jem and Scout were attacked at night, Boo Radley saved their lives. Scout always believed in the hype that boo was a crazy man when in reality he was harmless, yet just antisocial. Atticus saying that quote to Scout showed her to “never judge a book by its cover”, and always put yourself in their shoes before judging. This is an example of a moral lesson because Scout thought of Boo as the total opposite of his actual character, based on things she heard. Will Scout follow the majority view on others, just as she did with Arthur “Boo” …show more content…
Dubose was a rude, elderly woman who lived on Jem and Scout street and had a negative view on many people and topics. She was battling a morphine addiction which caused her to have negative views on certain things. Jem got in trouble wit Mrs. Dubose for damaging her camellia bushes. Atticus punished Jem by making him [Jem] read to Mrs. Dubose after school. The time span that Jem would be there, kept expanding and he thought that it was out of Mrs. Dubose’s spiteful ways. Atticus tells Scout and Jem that there was another side to Mrs. Dubose that they never say: “was the bravest person I ever knew.” By having Jem and Scout be around Mrs. Dubose towards the end of her life, it showed them how courageous she was to get off of her addiction. They saw the other side of Mrs. Dubose that Atticus wanted them to, and learned that people are not always as they seem.
Think to this again.. do we learn life lessons from even the smallest situations? Scout learned moral lessons from the Tom Robinson trial, Mrs. Dubose and her morphine addiction, and Arthur “Boo” Radley. They learned from Atticus that these people they viewed were not as they perceived. Always get to know someone before judging or saying negative, or even positive phrases about them. You may think you are right about what you’re saying, but you can always be wrong. The moral of this novel was to never judge a book by its cover, no matter the
Do people learn life lessons from even the smallest situations? Big or small, there are moral lessons learned in almost everything you execute in life. A moral lesson is teaching or exhibiting goodness or correctness of character and behavior. Think of life lessons you yourself have learned, that you feel changed your point of view on an idea. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, written by Harper Lee, takes place in Maycomb, Alabama, in the 1930s during the Great Depression. The narrator is the protagonist, a young girl, Jean Louise “Scout” Finch, who is 6, 7, 8, and 9, throughout the story. Scout has an older brother, Jem, which are both raised by a single father, who is a lawyer, who has equal views on life. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ has Scout …show more content…
Towards the end of the novel, Jem and Scout were attacked at night, Boo Radley saved their lives. Scout always believed in the hype that boo was a crazy man when in reality he was harmless, yet just antisocial. Atticus saying that quote to Scout showed her to “never judge a book by its cover”, and always put yourself in their shoes before judging. This is an example of a moral lesson because Scout thought of Boo as the total opposite of his actual character, based on things she heard. Will Scout follow the majority view on others, just as she did with Arthur “Boo” …show more content…
Dubose was a rude, elderly woman who lived on Jem and Scout street and had a negative view on many people and topics. She was battling a morphine addiction which caused her to have negative views on certain things. Jem got in trouble wit Mrs. Dubose for damaging her camellia bushes. Atticus punished Jem by making him [Jem] read to Mrs. Dubose after school. The time span that Jem would be there, kept expanding and he thought that it was out of Mrs. Dubose’s spiteful ways. Atticus tells Scout and Jem that there was another side to Mrs. Dubose that they never say: “was the bravest person I ever knew.” By having Jem and Scout be around Mrs. Dubose towards the end of her life, it showed them how courageous she was to get off of her addiction. They saw the other side of Mrs. Dubose that Atticus wanted them to, and learned that people are not always as they seem.
Think to this again.. do we learn life lessons from even the smallest situations? Scout learned moral lessons from the Tom Robinson trial, Mrs. Dubose and her morphine addiction, and Arthur “Boo” Radley. They learned from Atticus that these people they viewed were not as they perceived. Always get to know someone before judging or saying negative, or even positive phrases about them. You may think you are right about what you’re saying, but you can always be wrong. The moral of this novel was to never judge a book by its cover, no matter the