To Kill A Mockingbird Moral Education Analysis

Fostering a Moral Education In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there are many themes that come through in the novel. However, there is one theme that stands out as the most important one, and that is the importance of fostering a moral education. A moral education is important because they do not teach you that in school, and it is vital for the way you treat people. The theme of the importance of teaching moral education is shown in this novel in three ways: how Atticus raises his children, how Aunt Alexandra thinks society lessons are more important, but ends up hurting Scout and Jem, and how Atticus shows those moral lessons by leading by example. One way this theme is shown is in the way that Atticus raises his children. He implies morals, but he also allows his children to explore life by themselves. One example of this is in the beginning of the

Aunt Alexandra believes these lessons are important, but sometimes they end up hurting the Finches. Alexandra is obsessed with a class system in which the Finches are on the top. She makes Atticus tell his kids, “Your aunt has asked me to try and impress upon you [Jem] and Jean Louise that you are not from run-of-the-mill people, that you are the product of several generations’ gentle breeding...and that you should try to live up to your name” (Lee 177). However, this only creates problems; it makes Scout cry and damages her relationship with her father a little bit. Alexandra also talks about people with less money being “trash”, and she is the reason Jem starts to believe in the class system. This is proven when Scout says there is only one type of folks, because Jem says that was what he thought when he was younger as well. His thoughts about class systems have changed. Alexandra enforces the belief that some people are better than others, but that is simply not