No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change." - (Lee, Chapter 9 of To Kill a Mockingbird). Basically, what this lesson means is that he is telling Jem and Scout that you will hear bad talk about him defending Tom at school, also that you are not to engage in a fist fight no matter what that person says just hold your head high and fight with your brain. The reason he said this is because that day someone said that his dad was defending a negro so Scout tried to beat him and Atticus was trying to tell her that two wrong do not make a …show more content…
What is really meant here is that you can't really understand someone unless you are them for a while and experience what they do and have done. The reason this is said in the novel is because Atticus is telling them that you really can't judge a person unless you experience what they do and what they have done, for example, when Atticus is at the jail when a lynching mob surrounds him along with Jem and Scout, After Scout sees Mr. Cunningham and starts saying a bunch of stuff and made him turned around and go home. Then Atticus said you made him stand in my shoes and experience what I was. The third lesson learned in the novel"To Kill A Mockingbird" is that "You can shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." - (LEE, Chapter 10 of To Kill a Mockingbird). What's is meant here is that you could kill all the bluejays you want just never want to kill a mockingbird because it is a sin because all they do is sing for us says Atticus. This was said when the kids got their airsoft guns and started shooting things like Miss