What lessons does scout learn in to kill a mockingbird
What lessons does scout learn in To Kill a Mockingbird?
The whole of the part one of this novel is a series of life lessons preparing Scout for the hardships she is going to face in the second part of the novel. Due to the influence of the likes of Atticus, Miss Maudie and Mrs Dubose, Scout goes from a naïve young girl who thought with her fists rather than her head, into a more mature, empathetic girl. This essay is going to discuss some of the lessons Scout learns and how they impacted the way she became at the end of part one.
One of the first lessons Scout learns is to be tolerant of other people. Walter Cunningham is described as having “looked as if he had been raised on fish food… had no colour in his face… and fingered the straps of his overalls. The first line is a simile that tells us how poor Walter is because fish food isn’t regular food and humans wouldn’t be able to survive on it which means Walter must be very skinny looking, because he doesn’t get proper food at home. Also, only the poor wore overalls and the colouring of his face is described as if he is ill which tells us the family don’t have enough money to take him to a doctor. When Walter comes to the Finch family and has lunch, he pours molasses all over his meal. This baffles Scout, who doesn’t understand why he is doing this, and wasted no time in commenting on “what the sam hill he was doing.” She is immediately reprimanded by Calpurnia who teaches her that some people do things differently to others but “you ain’t called on to contradict ‘em…”. The way Calpurnia uses language such as ain’t, shows that she is so angry with Scout that she doesn’t care about her bad grammar, and Scout knew this. This incident makes Scout more aware of the ways of other people and that she needs to tolerate and accept them, no matter how alien they may be to her.
Scout learns many lessons from Atticus regarding school. In school, Scout is introduced to a lot of different people such as Miss Caroline, Walter
The whole of the part one of this novel is a series of life lessons preparing Scout for the hardships she is going to face in the second part of the novel. Due to the influence of the likes of Atticus, Miss Maudie and Mrs Dubose, Scout goes from a naïve young girl who thought with her fists rather than her head, into a more mature, empathetic girl. This essay is going to discuss some of the lessons Scout learns and how they impacted the way she became at the end of part one.
One of the first lessons Scout learns is to be tolerant of other people. Walter Cunningham is described as having “looked as if he had been raised on fish food… had no colour in his face… and fingered the straps of his overalls. The first line is a simile that tells us how poor Walter is because fish food isn’t regular food and humans wouldn’t be able to survive on it which means Walter must be very skinny looking, because he doesn’t get proper food at home. Also, only the poor wore overalls and the colouring of his face is described as if he is ill which tells us the family don’t have enough money to take him to a doctor. When Walter comes to the Finch family and has lunch, he pours molasses all over his meal. This baffles Scout, who doesn’t understand why he is doing this, and wasted no time in commenting on “what the sam hill he was doing.” She is immediately reprimanded by Calpurnia who teaches her that some people do things differently to others but “you ain’t called on to contradict ‘em…”. The way Calpurnia uses language such as ain’t, shows that she is so angry with Scout that she doesn’t care about her bad grammar, and Scout knew this. This incident makes Scout more aware of the ways of other people and that she needs to tolerate and accept them, no matter how alien they may be to her.
Scout learns many lessons from Atticus regarding school. In school, Scout is introduced to a lot of different people such as Miss Caroline, Walter