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How Does Jem Finch Judge People In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Atticus once said, “People go stark raving mad when anything involving a negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand” (Lee 117). In To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, she creates a theme that makes the readers wonder, how judging someone from their appearances and thoughts can make a huge effect to the world. From the novel, Jean Louise Finch does not quite know what her society is all about. Throughout the novel, she starts to realize that different kinds of people act differently towards each other. In the end, Jean Louise and Jem Finch find out why their father is really supporting a negro. They learn to appreciate everyone from the society, no matter how different they are from themselves. The novel analyzes how judgemental, racism, and personality can take effect to a whole person. This identifies how people must take consideration into a person’s background and appreciate the actions that an individual makes. Most people judge others based on color and how they are different rather than the ordinary. Being judgemental changes the action that a person will take upon another. From the novel, Atticus states, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from …show more content…

It is a term that segregates all the types of people. It is still used today like the twentieth century, in order for races to separate between the ones they hate. In the novel it states, “I never wanta hear about that courthouse again, ever, ever you hear me (Lee 331). This signifies that black and white people did not bond with each other back then. Even when Calpurnia brought Jem and Scout to seek the difference between their white church to Calpurnia’s. This makes the society smaller because they only accepted a certain type of race and did not appreciate any other kind. Back in the late 1900’s, their feelings were not as strong as how today has been, where everyone accepted each other in one

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