Importance Of Education In To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird shows how Jem, Scout and Boo overcome their loss of innocence and overcome the struggles that Maycomb county and its people throw at them.

Humans live in a world where moral values are very clearly set determining what is good and what is bad. We know what scares us and how racism should be treated. Nevertheless, this was not the case back in Alabama during the 1950s. In the famous novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee narrates the lives of the people of Maycomb, Alabama, focusing on the story of Scout and Jem Finch, and the case of a said to be rape. In this emotion filled narrative, readers learn how life was back then not only in general, but for the separate social statuses that there was. As the book goes on and the characters change, ethical dilemmas about fear, and racism are seen. Additionally, what the book has to say about moral values and how things are done is mentioned in this essay. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee depicts the crude reality of Ethical Dilemmas in Maycomb, Alabama during the 1950s.

When one grows up, it is inevitable they will lose their innocence. Seeing the world through rose colored glasses can only take one so far, and eventually they will have to open their eyes to real issues in their lives. While this happens at different ages for everyone, Atticus in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee believes that his kids should not be sheltered from the real world. As Scout and Jem, Atticus’ children, grow up, especially in a time where Maycomb is so segregated, Atticus teaches his kids real life lessons and to not become like the rest of their town; racist and judgemental. This comes with a cost, however, as the kids “grow up” at an expedited rate. Throughout the novel, Jem and Scout learn valuable life lessons

Children are very impressionable people. Almost everything around them changes them in some way. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the main characters, Scout and Jem, start out as little kids who spend their days making up stories and playing sill games. Then their dad, who is a lawyer, takes on a case defending a black man who has been charged with rape. Since they live in Alabama, The whole family has to absorb some pretty ugly things, which forces Scout and Jem to grow up quickly, and it gives them a different and more mature view of the world. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, she uses characterization to show how different events and people shape children as they grow up and ultimately determine what kind of adults they will turn out to be.

To Kill a Mockingbird focuses on multiple significant ideas to highlight the main ideas of the novel. One of great magnitude is explained in chapter three of the novel when author Harper Lee simplifies the importance of being able to put yourself in someone else’s shoes to view each different perspective. “First of all,” he said, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folk. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”

The informal education of Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird prepares her for life and motivates her to keep learning. Through her daily experiences at home or in town, she is able to learn the judicial system, prejudice, hypocrisy, respect, friendship, courage, and the true value of people. Atticus and Miss Maudie affect Scout’s in formal education because they help her learn things on her own by experiencing things. Atticus rarely tells Scout what to do when she’s gotten in trouble. He tells her to figure it out. Miss Maudie teaches her about people. That you don’t know where everyone comes from or what they are like until you get to know them.

Imagine your child is growing up in a short span, being tainted by the evils of man and the heart of the prejudice. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem Finch are forced to age early when their father takes an unpopular side in the courtroom. His children learn the up and downs of being social outcasts who’s father is a ‘nigger-lover’. Although through the course of their unexpected summer, they absorb many aspects of life that even the adults are oblivious to. As they are progressing through their eye-opening summer, Jem and Scout Finch learn about the power of names in their society, the roles of destructive loneliness, and the loss of their innocence.

In Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird”, Two children Scout and Jem live in a small town called Maycomb. Mixed with tons of different people where Jem and Scout learn to not judge someone by their living style, color of their skin, what they look like etc. They also learn the importance of right and wrong and how it is important to be taught by family, peers, and even their environment.

Scout did not really know the Cunninghams in the beginning, but she knew their reputation. She knew that the Cunninghams would not take anything they knew they could not repay for. On Scout's first day of school she meets Walter Cunningham. Walter causes Miss Caroline to have a poor first impression of Scout. Scout explains to Miss Caroline who the Cunninghams are. Miss Caroline does not like what Scout says about the Cunninghams so Scout gets in trouble and Scout blames Walter. Scout thinks , “Catching Walter Cunningham in the school yard gave me some pleasure, but when I was rubbing his nose in the dirt Jem came and told me to stop”(Lee 22). Scout thinks that she is better than Walter because she is able to beat him up ,and she does not stop until Jem forces her to. But later in the novel, Scout is talking to Mr. Cunningham outside of the jailhouse to see if he remembers who she is to stop him from hurting Jem. Scout says, “I go to school with Walter,” [...] “He’s in my grade,”I says, “and he does right well. He’s a good boy,” I added, “a real nice boy”(Lee 153-154).Scout now knows that Walter did not mean to get her in trouble because she is complimenting him. Therefore, Scout changes her opinion of Walter

Personal values and morals are instilled into children by their parents . Jem and Scout Finch, characters from Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, are open minded, educated, young children that have a father named Atticus Finch who tries to teach his children to have sound morals and personal values . The children have not been sheltered from life's hardships due to their father Atticus's views on parenting instead they have learned right from wrong. Atticus Finch believes that not sheltering his kids from the world allows them to form strong morals and values. Atticus Finch does what he believes will help make his children into strong citizens with outstanding values and morals.

Society is not always depicted as innocent to a child as it may appear. In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, a young teenager named Jem lives with his father, Atticus Finch, and younger sister, Jean Louise Finch, in Maycomb, Alabama. Jem’s father, Atticus, practices law in Maycomb and recently was appointed by the county to defend a black man named Tom Robinson. Jem, a thirteen year old boy during the court case, learns life lessons about respect for others and acquiring correct type of courage to defend someone who is being criticized when society disapproves of them. As the time gets closer for the court case to start session Jem becomes strongly aware of the changing society and growing controversy about his

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a novel set during the 1930s in a small town in Southern Alabama called Maycomb. The story is told through the narrator, Scout, a young girl who lives with her father, a lawyer, and her older brother Jem. As a child, Scout is portrayed as a stubborn and obnoxious little girl who loves to read, play with her brother Jem, and fantasize about her mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. However, her life gets turned upside down when Scout’s father agrees to do something that is deemed unacceptable in the south; he agrees to defend Tom Robinson, a black man who is accused of raping a white girl. Instantly, Atticus and his family go from being respected and beloved by their town, to being

While school may teach lessons, they are certainly not valuable life lessons. Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird repeatedly shows the ineffectiveness of the education system in a child’s morals. To Kill A Mockingbird takes place in the Great Depression era in Alabama, where education was not the best. Teachers would only seek to teach their classes average, everyday lessons rather than valuable life teachings. Throughout the novel, Scout and Jem learn more and more valuable life lessons through real life scenarios than they ever would have ever learned at school. They learn morals such as courage, selflessness, and equality through their own lives. Therefore, real life experiences give more valuable lessons than education to Scout and Jem.

“Sometimes I think I’m a total failure as a parent, but I’m all they’ve got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him…” Atticus is the teacher figure for his children, Jem and Scout in To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. This book is about how Jeremy “Jem” Atticus Finch and Jean “Scout” Louise Finch learn important lessons along the story from Atticus. Empathy is the first lesson Scout learns and later demonstrates. The second lesson, courage, is learned by Jem. And the third lesson learned by both Jem and Scout is tolerance. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, morality is a big part of the theme; what one is taught as a child one will forever use as an adult.

Education is a small word but it has a big meaning it can change your life and take you to another level and a new world, it teaches you how to communicate with everyone and everywhere, like Malcom X said “ Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” In to kill a mockingbird Scout values education and understands how important it is to be educated, it’s like having a big power.