Examples Of Judgement In To Kill A Mockingbird

A humans number one fright in society is being judged, that is why many have stage fright or don’t like to be different or isolated from others. Could this natural human extinct be right? Is everyone always judging everyone? In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the small town of Maycomb shows a lot of examples of the misunderstanding and judgement between the town folks, do to their ignorance. The novel portrays that ignorance is a seed for misjudgment throughout the novel . This is because many characters in the novel willingly use ignorance to lie, spread rumors, and judge. The one of the characters that isn’t judgemental in the novel is Atticus Finch, he often cautions his children, Jem and Scout, to respect others, and not judge them on their intellect, race, ideas, or religion. Still the children are ignorant and judge their neighbors and listen to rumors around town. Although at the end of the novel Scout suddenly realizes “Atticus was right . . . you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them” (Lee 237). She realizes this after a man who is the known as the town monster save her and her brother, and she finally meets the soft hearted human he really is.

Jem, Dill, and Scout learn that the town drunk, Mr. Dolphus Raymond, isn’t really a drunk, but secretly acts like he is always drinking whisky but instead always carries around a bottle of Coca-Cola in a paper bag to trick everyone into thinking always drinking alcohol. He says he does this because “Some folks don’t like the way [he] lives, . . . [so he] give ‘em a reason . . . [so] folks can say [he is] in the clutches of whiskey that’s why he won’t change his ways. He can’t help himself, that’s why he lives the way he does” (169). This shows how judgemental Maycomb really is and use their ignorance to judge each