To Kill A Mockingbird Morals

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The book To Kill a Mockingbird tackles many important topics. There are many messages someone can get from this book, and everyone’s interpretation of the story will be different. However, in the novel there are many notable events that build out a common theme that ties all the other messages in the story together. The main theme in To Kill A Mockingbird is to stop judging others based on preconceived notions. The first few chapters of the book follow Jem, Scout, and Dill as they spend their summer together. Apart from playing normal children's games during the summer, the kids also play a game surrounding their neighbor. Their neighbor, Boo Radley, is a man who doesn’t live too far away from them, but he is unlike their other neighbors due to the fact he never leaves his house. …show more content…

IN their game they acted out these legends, “It was a melancholy little drama, woven from bits and scraps of gossip and neighborhood legend: Mrs. Radley had been beautiful until she married Mr. Radley.”(Lee 44). The children continue to play this game until they get caught by Jem’s and Scout’s father, Atticus, who has repeatedly told them to stop pestering the Radley’s. Over time, the kids fascination with the Radleys diminishes as they grow up. One night the Radley’s come into their life again, this time instead of as a joke or game, it's as the people who save their lives, “Before he went inside the house, he stopped in front of Boo Radley. ‘Thank you for my children,’ he said” (Lee 317). Boo Radley, the man the kids had been fearing and making games off, stopped Bob Ewell from killing them. The kids who had only heard gossip about Boo and the Radleys came to the preconceived notion that they were scary or evil, but in the end they were the people who saved their lives. Tom Robinson is another person that has been chastised in

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