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Jem and Scouts Lessons in the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird". It is an essay on lessons Jem and Scout learned in "To Kill a Mockingbird".
One of the lessons Scout learns is to look at things from other people's perspectives. He teaches them so many lessons here is an example how he helped Scout. "'First of all,' he said, 'If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view-' 'Sir?' '-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.'"(p30) Scout learned an extremely good lesson from what Atticus said. Scout pays a lot of attention to Atticus and it shows the great bond between the two. Scout even put this to use later in the story. "As Atticus once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radly Place at two in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon. So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him."(p57) Therefore to understand other people you must climb into there shoes and then you will truly understand, Scout used this and did understand.

This would have to be the greatest lesson out of the whole book it even gives the book its name. "Atticus said to Jem one day, 'I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. 'Your father's right,' she said. 'Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up peoples gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.'"(pUnknown) Jem did not understand this for a start until he asked Miss Maudie who is very similar to Atticus. Later on Jem used the knowledge he had learnt from this lesson. "Atticus looked like he needed cheering up. I ran to him and hugged him and kissed him with all my

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