What life lessons needed to be taught to the kids during the Great Depression in the 1930s? Scout was a six year old tomboy who did not understand the community around her during the Great Depression. Jem was a ten year old boy who learns early on in the story what is right from wrong. Dill was a seven year old boy who became playmates with Jem and Scout and convinced them to try and get Boo Radley to come outside. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Lee utilizes the life-lessons of Scout, Jem and Dill to illustrate the maturity, comprehension, and innocence found within Alabama in the 1930s.
The life-lessons that were given to the characters in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” changed their maturity throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, Jem and Scout used to be scared of the Radley house because they had different routines than the people of Maycomb. In chapter 1, it says “They did not go to church, Maycomb’s principal recreation, but worshiped at …show more content…
In the beginning of the story when Jem told Scout how he felt about the Radley incident, she could not grasp the errors in their actions and did not see Jem eye-to-eye. In the text in chapter 7, it says, “It was then, I suppose, that Jem and I first began to part company. Sometimes I did not understand him, but my periods of bewilderment were short lived”. She was too young to apprehend responsibility and maturity because during the time of the occurrence, she was six going on seven years old. During the case of Tom Robinson, Dill cries when Tom is accused of lying about everything. In Chapter 19, it says “For some reason Dill had started crying and couldn’t stop; quietly at first, then his sobs were heard by several people in the balcony”. Dill was too young to fathom the thoughts of the community and why they would find Tom to be guilty or to be
The life-lessons that were given to the characters in the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” changed their maturity throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, Jem and Scout used to be scared of the Radley house because they had different routines than the people of Maycomb. In chapter 1, it says “They did not go to church, Maycomb’s principal recreation, but worshiped at …show more content…
In the beginning of the story when Jem told Scout how he felt about the Radley incident, she could not grasp the errors in their actions and did not see Jem eye-to-eye. In the text in chapter 7, it says, “It was then, I suppose, that Jem and I first began to part company. Sometimes I did not understand him, but my periods of bewilderment were short lived”. She was too young to apprehend responsibility and maturity because during the time of the occurrence, she was six going on seven years old. During the case of Tom Robinson, Dill cries when Tom is accused of lying about everything. In Chapter 19, it says “For some reason Dill had started crying and couldn’t stop; quietly at first, then his sobs were heard by several people in the balcony”. Dill was too young to fathom the thoughts of the community and why they would find Tom to be guilty or to be