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To Kill A Mockingbird Falseness

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Riley Pope
Mrs. Lauren Garret
English 1 Honors
17 January 2023
To Kill a Mockingbird Literary Analysis “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view— until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 33). In Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch teaches his children a valuable lesson. Atticus is a man that strives for moral values and makes it essential for his children to learn these values. To have their ideas and thoughts that are lacking in the beliefs and opinions of their fellow neighbors. Neighbors whose accusations are based on gossip rather than truthful information. Through misjudgments and wrong interpretations, Boo Radley, Dolphus Raymond, and Mrs. Dubose are not …show more content…

Dubose is also represented falsely. She is seen as a mean old woman but in reality, is not. The first time we hear about Mrs. Dubose is when the children are walking into town and Jem instructs Scout to walk on the sidewalk opposite Mr. Dubose’s house to avoid beginning a conversation with her. Mrs. Dubose yells profanities and accusations from the warmth of her front porch. She is intolerable to some of her neighbors that pass by on a daily occurrence. The truthful aspect of her character is revealed when Atticus is talking to his children about Mr. Dubose after her death. “Jem, when you're as sick as she was it’s all right to take anything to make it easier, but it wasn’t all right for her. She said she meant to break herself of it before she dies, and that’s what she did” (Lee 127). Jem responds to Atticus asking, “You mean that’s what her fits were” (Lee 127). During Scout and Jem’s adventures reading to Mrs. Dubose, they begin to tolerate her better and begin to enjoy her company. When they hear of her death Atticus finally reveals the truth about her. Mrs. Dubose found out that she was sick and dying. The pain from her sickness caused her addiction to morphine. She wanted to break herself from the drug before her death. Scout and Jem’s reading helped distract her from her addiction. Her withdrawal provoked the screams and yells that Jem refers to as fits. Unfortunately, we never saw the full clean healthy version of Mrs.Dubose but we know that she was not the mean old woman she is originally pictured

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