Atticus Discrimination Quotes

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Through Scout’s lesson from introduce to a way that people may come to accept each other. In order to accept each other, people must open up to others’ ideas and be able to speak about it. When people are able to talk about other’s interests, they open up their doors to new ideas. Scout believes that if she is able to communicate to Walter Cunningham, she would be able to understand what is going on. As a result, she was able to bring the “human” out of Walter and was able to save Atticus from any possible harm. Atticus is conveying the idea that before we can accept others’ idea we must be able to accept our own idea first. Atticus respect the opinion of the people in Maycomb, but that does not mean he believes in it. Atticus is following …show more content…

This is why Atticus is worried that his own kids might become racist just from living around others who are racist. It’s also important to note how Atticus doesn’t think the townspeople are evil people (he calls them “reasonable”), he just thinks they have become corrupt because of the disease of racism. Here, Lula displays the separation between white and black people. Not only the whites, but the black people consider the opposite race different than their own. Both sides are not able to see eye to eye and refuse to treat each other the same. Lula believes each race belongs to different sides and wants it to stay that way. Atticus portrays that everyone is human and all it takes for people to understand each other is something or someone to bring out the human in them. When people are in a group they feel as a majority rather than their individuality; they lose themselves and no long listen to others. However, when they are in individual, they are no longer binded to the group’s ideas, rather, they are able to see things in many ways. It forces them to see through the views of others, which then leads into a mutual