To Kill A Mockingbird Essay

In To Kill a Mocking Bird, By Harper Lee, Fictional Novel, Scout has had many experiences with several characters. She as one of the main characters throughout To Kill Mocking Bird, has always judged other characters or people based on their appearances and actions. Atticus, scouts father explains about this by telling Scout that most people are nice “when you finally see them” (Lee, 376). But how does this theme apply to past minor characters? Does scout later realize that her thought of who the person was before was false? .Based on past characters scout judged before and after. The author Harper Lee shows that in the book To Kill A Mocking Bird, misunderstandings and interpretations, demonstrates the fact that, once you put yourself into someone else’s shoes, you as a human being will later understand and reflect on what you knew about the person before and determine who the person really is, and what morals do they as a character demonstrate. Though this, the theme implies to minor characters in the book such as: Calpurnia, Mrs. Dubose and Dolphus Raymond. Firstly, based on To Kill a Mocking Bird, Scout, understands the fact that most people are nice at first when you see them because of Calpurnia. From the book…”Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are anybody steps foot in this house’s yo company” (Lee, 33). In chapter 3 based on this quotation, When Walter Cunningham arrives inside Scouts home, Scout judged Walter. This made Calpurnia as a minor character angry and so she tells scout based on the quote. This makes Scout as a major character feel a bit mad because, Scout never agrees with Calpurnia’s teachings. Though later we as the reader realize that Scout has a change of character in the book. For e...

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...his town, but all you gotta do is step back inside the courthouse” (Lee, 269). This initially corresponds in Scouts head, as she than changes her negativity to positivity. This is because she as a main character understands that her knowledge hasn’t developed yet, due to her age, and that she can’t judge someone by their actions. She has to judge a person by finally seeing who they really are and uncovering their true reasons and morality, in order to see how nice they are, not interpret and judge a human being by their actions, and what they do. In general, Scout as a major character in To Kill a Mocking Bird, understands that people are nice “when you finally see them” because of, Calpurnia, Mrs.Dubose and Mr.Dolphus Raymond. She mainly does this by putting herself into the other person’s shoes and identifying who they really are.

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