LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR
Human beings love themselves, but not each other. At least that’s what Harper Lee thinks. In To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee, using character personalities, dialogue, actions, and symbols, is saying that all around the world, human beings as people are not making enough effort to change their negative opinions on one another, rather we are sticking to our ignorant but comfortable mindsets because it is easier to do so. Also, she is urging us to change and become more understanding and considerate people.
For example, take Atticus Finch. Being a loving father, an ethical gentleman, and a forgiving fellow he is the very embodiment of Harper Lee’s ideality. On multiple occasions, one can see that Finch is clearly a man of morals who has made an effort to break away from the malicious stereotypes lingering around Maycomb, and to treat everyone respectfully, fairly and equally. His dinner time conversation with Walter Cunningham on pg. 24 shows that he is willing to accept different kinds of people and their lifestyles, even if they are still children. For, even though Scout was ridiculing Walter for “drowning”
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Finch. In fact, the vast majority of Maycomb County’s population has shown either: racism, sexism, age discrimination, or a combination of the three at least once during the novel, using their actions, thoughts or dialogue. However, all of this discrimination is part is what makes Maycomb, Maycomb. In a way, Maycomb County is more than just a spatial setting; it’s a symbol as well. It is representative of the best and the worst of society in both the 1930’s generation that the book was plotted around, and our current generation as well. This is because there were lots of American towns around the 1930s that that were still uneasy about the results of the civil war and were yet to adjust to having blacks in their communities; therefore racism ran rampant all around the U.S.A just as it does in