To Kill A Mockingbird Moral Education Analysis

Moral Education

You are capable of knowing the difference between right and wrong, “The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience” (105). Lessons on morality have a big impact on our everyday lives. We are constantly put into situations where there are good and bad choices. We must be able to pick the choice that would lead us down the better path, but sometimes we must experience opposition in order to learn. In Harper Lee’s, To kill a Mockingbird, through the lessons that Atticus gives to his children, Jem and Scout, we see that moral education is very important because it allows the characters to go through the process of trial and error which helps them fully develop and change for the better.

Scout learns in her father’s lessons on moral education, how the importance of tolerance is needed if you

Atticus teaches his son a very important lesson after what he did with Mrs. Dubose’s flowers as well as about her death. Jem gets very upset about what Mrs. Dubose said about Atticus, “Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for” (102). Jem furious by what Mrs. Dubose had said, he decided to cut the tops off of every camellia that she owned. Atticus asks Jem if he was the one that was responsible for the damage that had been done to Mrs. Dubose’s camellia. Jem being completely honest responded yes. Atticus shows us how he has taught his children important moral lessons on integrity. Atticus sends Jem down to Mrs. Dubose's house to confess what he had done and to apologize for his actions. While doing so, we learn that Mrs. Dubose has a task for Jem, “She wants me to come every afternoon after school and Saturdays and read to her out loud for two hours...for a month” (105). During this task that has been bestowed upon Jem we learn that Mrs. Dubose is not as healthy as she should be. Mrs. Dubose is described through the eyes of Scout like