Life is overfilled with messages, like weeds in a sea in unmaintained grass. Whether it’s warning a person, or signalizing a flaw; these simple lessons are there to further grow the positive parts of that person’s personality. A rich demonstration of this is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. An old, children’s book serving no meaningingful purpose is what it may seem, nonetheless, it actually is a novel that offers a unique outlook on all aspects of human life. In the book, two children Jem and Scout, who learn about equality, racism, and social class through court cases, tea parties and more. The story offers many ideals, whether to improve upon something that is exist, or throw a new concept into the the air with various techniques, or
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One example is gender inequality. A demonstration of this is when Scout describes a dress as a prison. She says “I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary(Lee 138). The comparison of a dress to a prison refers to gender inequality. A prison could be defined as limiting, and notwithstanding the dress itself is not forbidding Scout to do as she pleases, it still keeps her in confinement. The dress represents femininity, and that time being a woman excluded them from certain activities solely that were only capable by men. Thus, the reason why Scout wears overalls; she can do more than she ever could in a dress. Jem and Dill understand this and use to this to bully Scout into doing things she wasn’t comfortable with doing. Even with this, they didn’t bother to understand Scout’s point of view, furthermore if they had, some of the mishaps that occured could have possibly been …show more content…
Atticus talking to Scout about her first day of school displays this. He explains to her that “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view”... “until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 30). Atticus conveying that we can never understand the actions of others unless we bother to actually look in his perspective, understand the justification for each side. From observing humans in daily life, she acknowledges the fact that humans struggle with coming up with an opinion after viewing all opinions from their perspective fully. She hints at the idea that thought some people do try to understand, they don’t clear their mind fully of their opinion, and consequently still biased when stepping in another person’s shoes. Without understand others, Lee warns of chaos, demonstrated through the various events that caused issues for
One example is gender inequality. A demonstration of this is when Scout describes a dress as a prison. She says “I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary(Lee 138). The comparison of a dress to a prison refers to gender inequality. A prison could be defined as limiting, and notwithstanding the dress itself is not forbidding Scout to do as she pleases, it still keeps her in confinement. The dress represents femininity, and that time being a woman excluded them from certain activities solely that were only capable by men. Thus, the reason why Scout wears overalls; she can do more than she ever could in a dress. Jem and Dill understand this and use to this to bully Scout into doing things she wasn’t comfortable with doing. Even with this, they didn’t bother to understand Scout’s point of view, furthermore if they had, some of the mishaps that occured could have possibly been …show more content…
Atticus talking to Scout about her first day of school displays this. He explains to her that “you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view”... “until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 30). Atticus conveying that we can never understand the actions of others unless we bother to actually look in his perspective, understand the justification for each side. From observing humans in daily life, she acknowledges the fact that humans struggle with coming up with an opinion after viewing all opinions from their perspective fully. She hints at the idea that thought some people do try to understand, they don’t clear their mind fully of their opinion, and consequently still biased when stepping in another person’s shoes. Without understand others, Lee warns of chaos, demonstrated through the various events that caused issues for