Examples Of Moral Lessons In To Kill A Mockingbird

One of the biggest moral lessons you can learn in this book is that: people are people, regardless of race or social class. Throughout the book, Scout and Jem face many examples of it as they go about their daily lives. The examples appear everywhere from the beginning of the book all the way to the very end, but Jem and Scout don’t catch on to the lesson until later in the book.
One of the first examples was when Jem invited Walter Cunningham to go home and have dinner with them in chapter 3. Scout makes fun of him for pouring syrup all over his food. Cal call her into the kitchen and told her that that was no way to treat company. Scout protested by saying, “He ain’t company, Cal, he’s just a Cunningham.” Cal reply for her contained these sentences: “… No matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny… Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ‘em…”
After he had left with Cal, Aunt Alexandra started saying how no one cared about her brother and how it was tearing him to pieces. Miss Maudie stopped her and told her: “Whether Maycomb knows it or not, we’re paying the highest tribute we can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.” And when Aunt Alexandra asked who she was talking about, she replied: “The handful of people in this town who say that fair play is not marked White Only; the hand full of people who say a fair trial is for everyone, not just us; the handful of people with enough humility to think, when they look at a Negro… the handful of people in this town with background, that’s who they