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How To Kill A Mockingbird Theme Of Equality

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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is an award winning novel. It portrays amazing life lessons along with casual problems of a normal town. Harper Lee won the Pulitzer Prize for her amazing novel by directly facing the problem of equality in that time period. Harper does this by having a white man defend a black man in court. The novel deserves this honorable prize because it is relatable and makes people aware of the severity of racism. The novel is very relatable because she brings up problems that most everyone faces some time or another in their lifetime. It is so easy to judge others. Harper uses many examples of this in her novel but specifically she shows Jem and Scout judging two individuals. Jem and Scout are still young and they are neighbors with Mrs. …show more content…

Each evening the kids run to greet Atticus as he walks home from work but unfortunetly they have to pass Mrs. Dubose. She yells terrible things at them as they pass. Mrs. Dubose yells at Scout for not being more of a lady and even tells the kids that Atticus is a "nigga lover". So Jem and Scout hate her because she is so mean to them but little do they know what Mrs. Dubose is going through. Jem tore up all Mrs. Dubose's flowers and his punishment was he has to read to her for a full month. The kids learn after Mrs. Dubose dies that she was a morphine addict. They also learn that when Jem would read to her each day that it helped her to take her medicine later and later in the day. Mrs. Dubose's goal was to free of her addiction before she died. This is such a great example that Harper Lee put in the novel to show that it is so easy to judge someone without knowing their situation. Although the kids hated Mrs. Dubose for being mean, they learned a great life lesson to not judge a person before you know what their going through. This situation is so relatable because everyone judges others and it's easy to forget to be kind no matter

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