Parent Child Relationships In To Kill A Mockingbird

Atticus guides his children through the ropes of life within their relationship. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus instructs his children many things over the tight relationship they have together. Many things occurred in this book, some of which revolved around the Tom Robinson court case. Although Jem and Scout were young, they attended the court case and took quite a bit from it. Atticus was the defending lawyer and he had explained the court system with Jem and Scout briefly prior to this event. Atticus teaches Jem and Scout to not be prejudice, how to be a respectable person in his eyes, and Jem teaches Atticus that even through the tough times he will always have his back. Parent/child relationships are critical, first, because without them Jem and Scout could have, and most likely would have grown up to be prejudice. In Maycomb, plenty of people are prejudice, which in the eyes of the Finch family, is a problem. “Nigger-lover is one of those terms that don’t mean anything-like snot-nose. It’s hard to explain-ignorant, trashy people use it when they think somebody’s favoring negroes over and above themselves” (Lee 144). Jem and Scout were beginning to
Most men and women in Maycomb are disrespectful and judge people before they get to know a person or even see them. “Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time” (16). Jem demonstrates a desire to protect anything that does no hard. He realized that it is sinful to destroy something weaker than one’s self. “Why couldn’t I mash him? I