By using the literary devices of point of view, and characterization Harper Lee implies the theme in ¨To Kill A Mockingbird¨ is, that unless a person has experienced a specific situation for themselves, telling them how to feel, or what their opinion should be about that topic, will not be as significant to them as if they were to actually go through it themselves.
Information that is shared verbally typically tends to be carrying a bias when it is told to others. In the book, when it was the first day of school for Scout, there was that boy belonging to the Cunningham family that was in her class, Walter. He was shy, shoeless, and very skinny. The city of Maycomb viewed their whole family as a poverty-stricken