Essay On Society In To Kill A Mockingbird

In today’s society, there are a variety of different people. This can especially seen in the halls of Lowell High School. In LHS, you can find the people who don’t care about school, the people who care a little bit, and the people who go to school everyday to learn. Because of this variety, you won’t like everyone. But there’s nothing you can do about it. You just have to tolerate them. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the small town of Maycomb has a variety of people living within it. The protagonist, a young girl named Scout, grows up with a variety of individuals around her. However, some of the people are liked more than others. Scout realizes this through her Aunt Alexandra, who is very intolerant towards people who are ‘lower’ than her in society, and learns that not everyone will be willing enough at first to look past the classic stereotypes applied and see the real people behind them. Atticus’s sister Aunt Alexandra is introduced as a very cold, unloving, and unfeeling person. Aunt Alexandra holds the qualities of Maycomb very well, as she is very …show more content…
Some may be intolerant, some may be split in the middle, and some may be tolerant of everyone. Living in a world where people are so different from one another, who you learn from can make a great impact of how well you may tolerate an individual or group of individuals. Scout learns this as she saw Aunt Alexandra’s feelings of someone versus Atticus’s feelings of someone. She also learns that while someone may think a certain way, they can always have a change of heart and realize that their way of looking at things is all wrong, which she saw in Alexandra’s change of heart towards Tom and the other black citizens of Maycomb. Because of these events that happened within the book, Scout learns about tolerance and how it is to be used when trying to look past a person’s classical stereotype and see the person they truly