Diversity In To Kill A Mockingbird

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For all of my elementary school years, I moved places a lot. I started at a new school every year. I never had my own bedroom. I was always leaving friends. I had to learn to adjust to my environment about 6 times, once a year. I left things unfinished. School years, sports seasons, and relationships. I was never sure whether or not this was common, but I just went with it. I never liked it, but had to go with it, the way Scout had to go with going to school.
My older brothers were in their late elementary to early high school years around this time. We have about the same age gap as Jem and Scout. Being so young, it didn’t affect me as much as it affected them. When we finally bought a house and settled down (about a year ago), I still had …show more content…

I had an acceptance for diversity and it made it harder for my brain to make assumptions and stereotypes on people. (It has been until now that I’ve started to think certain people act a certain way, even if it’s not true.) It taught me how to make new friends, and what it’s like to be the “new kid.” The effect it had on my brothers was a lot different. They had a harder time socializing and adjusting to school work since they were older and had more responsibilities.
Despite all of this, they learned diversity as well. They were accustomed to seeing and meeting different people all the time, just as I was. My earliest years were very different to the Finch kids’ life. Unlike me, they lived in a small town their whole lives with mostly white people. Calpurnia was their only example of a black person, but she was their maid. I saw black and other POC in all kinds of social classes. Scout could talk on and on from what she knew about just one person in town, while I barely knew the names of all my classmates. I can’t tell how my life would be at all if I had the privilege of growing in one community for my whole childhood. The only career I could chase was one an education could give me since all I consistently had was school. Then again, it has also been a privilege to be able to see so much and to experience what others couldn’t if I just stayed in one place my whole

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