Moral Growth Examples

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Moral Growth
What is moral growth? Moral growth is “ the emergence, change, and understanding of morality.” In the story we see how jem and scout start to realize how the world is not all good like they think it is. As the story goes on we can see that scout and jem start to understand the evil in the people. One example about this is when tom goes to jail for something he didn’t do and that's when Jem sees that everyone is against the color people that live in Maycomb.
What factors influence our moral growth? Some factors that influence our moral growth are our religion, family, friend, teachers (Bosses). Also what we do helps our moral growth. For example what we hear, what others show us, influence us as well. Our parents contribute to …show more content…

We all have had different situations where we see what happen to others and we are like you know I should do something different. One example of this would be having your music out loud and being taken by the cops. Another example would be selling chips or other stuff in school and seeing how the students get caught by the securities at school. One more example would be like what happened recently in my school where a girl found a paper saying that a student was going to shoot our school and the girl posted the picture on “snapchat’’ instead of telling a teacher about it. Now we all know we shouldn’t put stuff like this online because their will be a lot more problems than what we think. With all this examples we could see the difference between right and wrong because if it was something right we couldn’t get in …show more content…

For instance aunt Alexandra wants Scout to act like a lady because she acts like a boy, but Scout don’t feel good when she dresses like a girl. Another thing is how Maycomb judge other people by the color of their skin. They think that every person who ain’t white color skin is a bad person no matter what. Also in the story Atticus says that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird because they don’t do anything to us but make beautiful music so we can listen to. Here in Monache we see a lot of racism towards different races just because they think that because we ain’t white means we came

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