Just as it is today, in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. the people of Maycomb have set opinions of others. They look down on people who aren’t “normal”. This novel follows Scout Finch as she creates her own ideas about the world around her, As she creates her own definitions about people based on what she learns herself and what people say around her. The novel follows her trying to learn that everyone is different and that you need to see things from their perspective sometimes. Lee shows this through her use of diction and character growth.
Scout grows throughout the novel, physically and more importantly mentally. Her father, Atticus, is quite a wise and patient man tells her after school one day that “if you can learn a simple trick…,
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For instance when Atticus takes on the Tom Robinson case people like Mr. Cunningham and Mrs. Dubose don’t necessarily agree. Mrs. Dubose, an old, sick women yells at Jem and scout whenever they walk past. She says cruel things about them and their father. She calls Atticus a “nigger lover” whenever she see’s them(144). She felt that because Atticus was representing a black man he wasn’t a proper person. When she dies Atticus says that “she had her own view about things, a lot different than mine maybe”, that she was entitled to her opinion about things(149). Mr. Cunningham a very poor farmer who normally is rather mild mannered but when Atticus takes the case, he joins a mob that wants to hurt/bother Tom. Atticus is standing outside of Tom’s house when they show up. Scout notices Mr.Cunningham among the crowd and asks him how things are and asks him to say hello to Walter for her. This gives him a different perspective for a short period. After, Atticus says that “you children made [Mr.Cunningham] stand in my shoes for a minute”(204). He saw things differently and convinced the mob to go away for the time