To Kill A Mockingbird Moral Analysis

“Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it”, said James Arthur Baldwin, an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. Likewise, in the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee the innocent characters, Scout and Jem, become morally injured as they come in contact with the evil in the world. To Kill a Mockingbird takes place in a fictional town called Maycomb, Alabama and spans over three years of the Finch family, which includes Scout, her brother Jem, and father Atticus. This story illustrates Scout's friend Dill’s desire to lure a man named Boo Radley out of his house, because he is never leaves his house. According to the children’s myths, Boo eats cats and has stabbed his father in the leg. Consequently, Scout and Jem attempt to lure Boo out of his house their father, Atticus, a lawyer and takes on a case involving an
One primary lesson riveted in the book is the discovery of an individual's morality and the good and bad virtues of a person. Atticus, the father of Scout and Jem, believes there is righteousness in everyone and goodness will prevail the evil in the world. Subsequently, living in a supremely racist town, Atticus attempts to defend a black man in court and show the town that it is injustice to judge the man by his race. "There's nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who'll take advantage of a Negro's ignorance. Don't fool yourselves—it's all adding up and one of these days we're going to pay the bill for it. I hope it's not in you children's time” (295). This excerpt demonstrates how Atticus overcomes the towns ingrain racism and defends Tom Robinson and the African-American race. Furthermore, this shows how Atticus perceives the righteousness in every one and tries to enforce this concept on his family and the