To Kill A Mockingbird Life Lessons Analysis

As time has progressed, education has become increasingly important and society has emphasized it as a form of success. However, copious fail to comprehend that education and learning are not only bounded and limited to an erudite, school education, if not to a limitless world where learning is found in every situation and every circumstance. Although it is important to have an education, it is more important to learn the life lessons that this world has to offer through everything one experiences. In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, characters Scout and Jem experience a variety of circumstances and through them learn life lessons that are yet prominent lessons that can be learned today. To begin with, the narrator, Scout, learns that although a situation can appear dreadful, a situation is only really defined by the person looking at it. This is clearly seen in the incidence in the book where Miss Maudie’s house burns down. As Jem and Scout go to talk to her she states, “Always wanted a smaller house… gives me more yard. Just think, I’ll have more room for my azaras now” (97). When Jem and Scout go to talk to Miss Maudie they have an expectation that Miss Maudie will be grieved because of the present circumstances, however, …show more content…
It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” In life, there is no limit to what one can learn, lessons are in the smallest and biggest things. One can even learn from a book, such as To Kill A Mockingbird. This book is filled with life lessons, however the ones discussed here, perspective can change the outcome of a situation, success is defined differently by each person, and conviction doesn’t only happen in a court, but in everyday life, are some of the most