Good Judgement In To Kill A Mockingbird

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“Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement” (Rita Mae Brown) This quote from Rita Mae Brown is saying that even though someone will make bad judgement at some point in their life they can take that and use it as experience to make good judgement the next time. The novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee shows the evil of prejudice through the eyes of a young girl named Scout Finch. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Dill learns the harsh reality of the real world. Throughout the story Scout learns that there is only one kind of people through the teachings of her father. Throughout the story Jem realizes that he shouldn’t judge people until he understands them. Throughout the story Scout,Jem, and Dill learn important life lessons and mature as people as the story goes on. At the beginning of the story Charles Baker Harris known as Dill was a sweet innocent little kid who wanted to do everything on impulse without thinking about the consequences. Throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Dill learns the harsh reality of real life. He realizes that life is not as fair as it should be after the trial the trial of Tom Robinson and how people accused him of rape because he was black, even though he was clearly innocent and there was no solid evidence to prove him guilty. One piece of evidence from the novel that shows how Dill was at the beginning of the story is when Scout says “Dill’s father was taller than ours, he had a black beard