How Did Harper Lee Learn In To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel that is bigger than solely entertainment value. Harper Lee brings you to a fictional town that's residents have very significant differences. The readers learn to meet and love Atticus Finch's two kids Jem and Scout. The also hears about the infamous Bob Ewell who is always trying to harm others for personal benefit. The kids learn many things over the course of the book from their father, Atticus, who us a very well respected man in Maycomb. Jem and Scout learn many key life lessons that Harper Lee intends to pass on the the reader. During the time the book was written, the Country was in a nationwide dispute over segregation and if it was right. Harper Lee also passes on negative and positive characterizations of people which …show more content…
Lastly, she teaches us to have empathy for others, and to look out for one another.
Scout and Jem learn many lessons during the book that are passed on for the reader to learn. One of the themes in the novel was that is was a “sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Lee 119). Atticus says this to the kids when he first gave them air rifles and he is explaining the rules. He didn’t mean that literally but he he was trying to say don't harm others that havent done anything wrong. The characters in the book were harming people who had done nothing badly to them but they still decided to hurt them. Bob and Mayella Ewell convict Tom Robinson of rape just because he was black even though he did not commit the crime. Tom had never harmed anyone but was harmed which makes him a mockingbird. Another theme Atticus