A person 's perspective can easily be altered by the smallest things, whether it’s a
simple gesture or something more. A person 's perspective changes either for the good or the bad, and that all depends on your actions. Whether or not what you do is necessarily bad or good it may still have a great impact. Children are more affected by this because they see the world and society as something great and beautiful and once they are exposed to the darkness that lies in part of our society they start to see the world as an awful place when truly, it’s not. There is a lot of darkness and evil that is present in today’s society but it’s not as great as the good. In the life changing novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses point of view, allegory, and epiphany to convey that prejudice changes the way we see the world, a message still relevant in today’s society.
Walking home from the Halloween pageant, Jem and scout find themselves under attack by a Mr. Bob Ewell. As the struggle to break free intensifies, both scout and Jem are startled to find that their assailant has fallen limb. Instantaneously scout finds herself inside the house while Jem lies unconscious.
The story is told in scout’s point of view and through her eyes we may fittingly
understand the author’s message and how it is still relevant in
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In an article called Where Bias Begins: The Truth About Stereotypes on Psychology Today’s website by Annie Murphy Paul reviewed on November 2015, Paul discusses how prejudice and bias change how we unconsciously see the world. In this article Paul talks about how she has suffered at the hands of discrimination just like Arthur Radley. She also talks about the things we see in the novel like racism, and sexism. The scene connects to this article because Paul talks about the things we see again and again throughout the novel. This connects to the modern world because we see these things everyday like at school, work, and even at