Ignorance In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Everyone has a story with a lesson; this is Scout Finch’s story. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout, Jem, and Atticus experience countless situations where they are forced to grow. It is mainly focused on people maturing and on what being ignorant can do for one and others around them. With so much misunderstanding, the weight is on their shoulders to see clearly. In this novel, there are numerous examples that the only way to understand a person is by looking at things from their viewpoint.
Scout carries out a monologue after noticing Jem’s sudden change in personality. She recalls, “As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the

His hopes were soon shattered as four cars which sat Walther Cunningham drove into Maycomb and demanded him to move away from the jailhouse door. The mob was after Tom Robinson due to being accused of raping a white woman, Mayella Ewell. Although Scout wasn’t aware of the danger they were in, she converses with Walter Cunningham saying that entailments are bad and speaking about his son. He was taken aback by her words and took their leave. In chapter three, Atticus first advised Scout to climb into others’ skin and walk in it, Scout understood well and enlightened Walter Cunningham. Atticus recognizes that although Scout is just a child, she is an astute one. After Jem questions that Walter Cunningham is still a friend Atticus explained, “ So it took an eight-year-old to bring ‘em to their senses, didn’t it?... You children last night made Walter Cunningham stand in my shoes a minute. That was enough” (Lee 157). Scout was wary of her father and interfered despite her not understanding the situation, she uttered three simple words, “entailments are bad”. He was then able to understand Atticus and see him as human, thus turning away. Atticus says, “that was enough” because Mr. Cunningham being able to stand in his shoes indicates that he is still a man. He was in a group and his actions would be seen as theirs instead of his, which

Scout starts off with Miss Caroline and her not knowing the ways of a Cunningham and telling her she needs to stop learning on her own, and do it her way—prohibiting Atticus from reading to Scout. After listening, Atticus was able to use a metaphor to elaborate on why a person shouldn’t judge someone. Atticus advised, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view until you climb into his skin and walk around in it” (Lee 30). Thus saying, she should never judge a person since it isn’t anyone's place to do so, there’s no way to know someone’s full story without being them. In this example, Scout hadn’t taken into consideration the fact that Miss Caroline is fairly new to Maycomb and has not yet learned the rules. They have grown up in such disparate worlds. It isn't rational to fault her because there was no way of her knowing the ways of a Cunningham, they’ve grown up in disparate