How Is Aunt Alexandra's Blindness In To Kill A Mockingbird

Like many other animals, Elephants live and travel in groups called herds. Elephants travel in herds so they can have a safer environment for the smaller Elephants. Like the Elephants, People in Maycomb act in groups because they all want their children to be like them in a sense. Everybody catches on to each other's way of life and starts thinking like they might. Therefore people in Maycomb become blind. In “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, people are blind to their own distorted perceptions of righteousness, proving that anyone's view can be tainted when conforming to society thereby inflicting guilt and shame on others. Aunt Alexandra is the first example of a character who is blind to their own ideas of righteousness in society,

Here she is saying that everybody in Maycomb has a kind of streak and they all follows patterns or they all just follow each other. Aunt Alexandra kind of obviously follows a lot of the ways of Maycomb’s society, she tries to be around the women that fit in and follow the rule so that she can too and she does the typical things she is expected to do as a member of Maycomb even if it is not right. She knowingly follows the rules she makes fun of the people for doing, being blinded by her own perspective of righteousness and and conforming to society. Lastly, Aunt Alexandra asks Atticus to try and tell the kids that they are not poor kids they are more proper kids. Next, Aunt Alexandra asks Atticus to try and tell the kids that they are not poor kids they are more proper kids. “ Your aunt has asked me to try and impress upon you and Jean Lousie that you are not from run-of-the-mill people, that you are the product of several generations of gentle breeding”

First, Scout and Jem had always had an interest in Boo Radley and she unknowingly has gave in to all the rumors and tried to learn things about Boo for herself. “ What reasonable recluse wants children peering through his shutters, delivering greetings on the end of a fishing-pole, wandering in his collards at night? (278). Scout realizes that what they have been doing to Boo Radley may have been disrespectful and she could be questioning her and Jem’s actions. Unknowingly Scout has started acting upon what other is Maycomb have said about Boo and she continues to harass him even after Atticus lectured her. Scout starts walking into Boo’s yard and harassing him in many ways just because of rumors that have gone around Maycomb, she becomes blind to societies distorted perceptions of righteousness proving she is starting to conform. Next, Scout like most others have had many people around her telling her about gender roles and now she starts following them. “Boy’s don’t cook” (93). Though Scout does act and dress like a boy, through Aunt Alexandra and other women she has been placed around she is starting to believe there are gender roles. Scout always seemed to get aggravated when her aunt or anyone would bring up how she acts or dresses, so her saying that boy do not cook shows she is starting to