Chapter 11 Of To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

The most important theme in To Kill a Mockingbird The book To Kill a Mockingbird has one of the most important messages in any book, which is that people are better when you really see them. This message from Atticus also tells us that most people in the world are not always what we initially believed them to be. In this essay I will show you how certain characters from the book convey this theme with what they do in the book. First, in chapter 11 of the book we learn more about the character of Mrs. Dubose, who up until this chapter had been referred to as “plain hell" by most characters. At the start of this chapter, Jem gets tired of her constant harassment and uses a baton to break the flowers in her garden. As punishment, Atticus makes

Atticus later says “She was the bravest person I ever knew.” This shows how she was different from what people thought she was initially and was better when people finally got to see her. The next character we learn more about is Mr. Dolphys Raymond in chapter 20 who is told to be a white man with mixed children. He is also shown to be drunk all the time because he is always carrying around a bag with a straw poking out of it. When Scout and Dill leave the courtroom they meet Mr Raymond and begin talking to him and when Dill mentions how hot he is, Raymond offers his paper bag to Dill as a drink. Dill ends up drinking it only for him to say that it's coke, which confuses both of the children. After asking him why he lies about this he says “Secretly, Miss Finch, I’m not much of a drinker, but you see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that’s the way I want to live.” The way he lives that he is referring to is the fact that he is a white man with a black wife with mixed children. So he uses the excuse of drinking to try and make it easier for people to understand the way he