The novel reaches a bitter-sweet conclusion as the main character begins to swallow the new reality of racial discrimination: that no matter how different her ideals to see people only persons, it would never change the views of others around her, who only saw people for their race. However, through this discovery she becomes her own individual, as she continues to believe in her ideals despite others. Jean Louise grew up certain that everything her father taught her was also what he believed. She understood that everyone had and deserved equal rights, but what Atticus failed to teach her was that some needed to be positioned higher above others (uneducated black men or “trash”), for the sake of keeping structure in a community that both races
