How To Judge Lies In To Kill A Mockingbird

People in society often judge others based on looks and rumors, but these factors can be misleading. Many of the residents in Maycomb County, Alabama in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird tend to be very quick to judge others based on rumors, color, and gender. Atticus Finch turns that stereotypical filter off when he teaches his two children, Scout and Jem to look past these factors and look at others from a new perspective. Harper Lee does a phenomenal job proving that appearances can be deceiving. The locals made accusations about Dolphus Raymond, a man married to a black woman, as an excuse for his actions that they do not agree with, but what they believed is not accurate. Mr. Raymond carried around a brown paper bag with a straw sticking out; Scout and her friend Dill learn that it was not what it seemed. Mr. Raymond called the children but Scout was skeptical because, “Mr. Dolphus Raymond was an evil man” but they still went to him (Lee 267). Scout and Dill never spoke to Dolphus before, but because of all the rumors that they had heard the children felt like they could make judgments about him. After talking to the man, Scout and Dill were surprised to discover that his drink was,”nothing but Coca-Cola”(Lee 267). The children assumed that there was an alcoholic beverage inside the bag based on an

Dubose, a rude and judgmental old lady, but they did not know what was going on in her life behind closed doors. Whenever the two children would pass Mrs. Dubose they would be, “subjected to ruthless interrogation” about anything and everything (Lee 134). After Dubose’s death, Atticus told his kids that her actions were due to withdrawal effects she had from drugs. Jem and Scout did not know that about Mrs. Dubose and did not even think that her rude comments were because she was suffering from an illness. Hopefully, the children learned that they should not make remarks about others without knowing what was going on in their