Harper Lee, author of of the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” once said “Things are never as bad as they seem..”. This wraps up all the major life lessons scout, jean, and dill learnt in the course of 2 years. To me that's apart of childhood, to learn while still keeping in touch with that innocents. Childhood innocents to live with carefree thoughts, curiosity and imagination, a fragile mindset that haven't seen the cruelty of the world yet. Cruel and dark like the Great Depression, sadly not a lot of children had the chance to cherish that experience. Child labor was common during the great depression, kids working in crowded spaces during outrageous hours receiving scarce pay. However that's not the case for Scout, Jem and Dill, In Harper Lee’s
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She resembles the narrator at a young age, being a tomboy and very intelligent. Scout is not your average child where she is brave never losing hope, that's what makes her perspective more valued. The story takes place from the time scout is 6 to 9, in those years she learned very valuable lessons. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is mainly about growing up and one of the first lessons Scout has learned is, ‘You don’t understand someone unless you put yourself in their shoes’. Sounds familiar? Atticus (Scout and Jem’s father) tells this to scout and it takes a while for her to understand, actually during the first part of the novel it shows her getting it wrong. Across the street from her house is the very unsocial family, the Radley house. They have a son named Arthur Radley who hasn't been seen in many years because of his run ins with the police as a teen. The children call him Boo Radley acting as if he's a ghost with a horrible image of him as disgusting old man that eats children. However in reality Arthur is actually kind and childlike himself, secretly savin, playing, and looking after the kids. Nearing the end of the novel there's a scene where Arthur asks Scout to walk him across the street back to his house because he’s afraid. After doing so she looks out on the Radley porch looking back on her …show more content…
He's your typical American boy that remains close to scout and acts as a protector to her. Since Jem is the oldest he is more exposed to the way of the world and his childhood innocence decreasing as he learns hate, unfairness, hurtful prejudice, and racists exist . Throughout the novel Jem’s ideals are a greatly affected by the injustices of society. Tom Robinson is a blackman who was wrongfully accused and charged for raping a white women. Atticus agreed to be his lawyer and tends to do his best even though he's aware he’ll fail. The whole town is racist and as planned the trial goes on but no matter how much evidence points to Tom being innocent he loses because he’s black. Jem and the others are crushed as Atticus knew all along it would happen, Jem learns two valuable lessons from this. From Atticus working hard even though he knew it was all for nothing, he wants to teach them to ‘Keep fighting even if you know you’ll lose’, and after the trail jem learns the hard truth that ‘The world is very unfair’. This scene shows how fragile the child's mind set could be, one second they have hope then the next it's all taken away by one of the common cruelties of the earth,
She resembles the narrator at a young age, being a tomboy and very intelligent. Scout is not your average child where she is brave never losing hope, that's what makes her perspective more valued. The story takes place from the time scout is 6 to 9, in those years she learned very valuable lessons. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is mainly about growing up and one of the first lessons Scout has learned is, ‘You don’t understand someone unless you put yourself in their shoes’. Sounds familiar? Atticus (Scout and Jem’s father) tells this to scout and it takes a while for her to understand, actually during the first part of the novel it shows her getting it wrong. Across the street from her house is the very unsocial family, the Radley house. They have a son named Arthur Radley who hasn't been seen in many years because of his run ins with the police as a teen. The children call him Boo Radley acting as if he's a ghost with a horrible image of him as disgusting old man that eats children. However in reality Arthur is actually kind and childlike himself, secretly savin, playing, and looking after the kids. Nearing the end of the novel there's a scene where Arthur asks Scout to walk him across the street back to his house because he’s afraid. After doing so she looks out on the Radley porch looking back on her …show more content…
He's your typical American boy that remains close to scout and acts as a protector to her. Since Jem is the oldest he is more exposed to the way of the world and his childhood innocence decreasing as he learns hate, unfairness, hurtful prejudice, and racists exist . Throughout the novel Jem’s ideals are a greatly affected by the injustices of society. Tom Robinson is a blackman who was wrongfully accused and charged for raping a white women. Atticus agreed to be his lawyer and tends to do his best even though he's aware he’ll fail. The whole town is racist and as planned the trial goes on but no matter how much evidence points to Tom being innocent he loses because he’s black. Jem and the others are crushed as Atticus knew all along it would happen, Jem learns two valuable lessons from this. From Atticus working hard even though he knew it was all for nothing, he wants to teach them to ‘Keep fighting even if you know you’ll lose’, and after the trail jem learns the hard truth that ‘The world is very unfair’. This scene shows how fragile the child's mind set could be, one second they have hope then the next it's all taken away by one of the common cruelties of the earth,