To Kill A Mockingbird Lessons Essay

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This story highlights several moral lessons throughout the entire book. One of the moral lessons you witness recur is the lesson to not judge a person until you have walked in their shoes, or in other words, know their story. Atticus, in various ways throughout the story reminds the children several times throughout the story to walk in someone else’s shoes before judging them. Numerous times throughout the book the reader sees the characters walk in someone else’s shoes causing the characters perception to change. This similar type of event recurs multiple times in the story. Jem learns this simple lesson from Mrs. Dubose, who repeatedly pestered the Finch children when they passed her house. Jem had never been particularly fond of Mrs. Dubose, …show more content…

Jem and Scout were on their way home after the Halloween pageant in the dark of night, and Scout was still in her ham costume when Bob Ewell attacked them. Once the attack ended Scout found her way home, but she saw a man, she did not know, carrying Jem home. The unknown man stayed in the background of Jem’s room as the doctor examined him and Scout relayed her story to the sheriff. Scout soon realized that the unknown man, was non-other than Boo Radley. After Scout walked Boo Radley home, she stood on his porch for a moment and saw the world through his shoes. Scout envisions life as Boo Radley as she looks around from his porch. The author showcases Scout’s new view on Boo Radley with, “Summertime, and his children played in the front yard…It was fall, and his children fought on the sidewalk…Winter, and his children shivered…Boo’s children needed him.” (279) I think that those three sentences are the author’s way of simply telling the reader that Scout has found compassion and sympathy for Boo Radley. Scout realized that he was simply someone who has been misjudged and

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