Improper Parenting In To Kill A Mockingbird

In professor Chen Jianxiang’s report, 87 percent of Chinese parents don’t know how to teach their descendants and worry about the family education. He said we should alert the extra-education and education alienation (Jianxiang 2). Another circulated slang also said that parents should take responsibility for children’s mistake. These show that in modern society, there are still some problems in parents’ group. These problems may be lack of communication, trust, and even more, exist family violence. The mistake of home education and parents’ wrong demonstration will cause mountains of problems and have negative impact on their offspring. It’s not rarely known by people that many young criminals’ distorted psychology is caused by improper parenting.

He taught Scout not to be trapped by sexual stereotype. In the novel, after Aunt Alexandra asked Scout to wear dress and act like a girl and sunbeam, Atticus said there were enough sunbeams in the family and didn’t mind Scout much the way she was (Lee 127). This showed his enlightened education about gender roles. This caused Scout act as brave as a boy. Another example of this was that Atticus asked Jem to respect black people and avoid using the insulting words. What’s more, Atticus’ defending for Tom Robinson, a black person, was his exemplary behavior to show respect for others (Lee 117). Jem learnt his respectable and responsible character and went to help Ms. Dubose to read books in order to smooth over a fault that he damaged her camellia. All of the Scout and Jem’s behaviors reveal Atticus successful

These are two opposite instances of parenting as well. In Wu Xieyu case, Wu killed his mother with the reason of “making his mum unfixed” (Guang Zhou Daily 3). Wu said: After his father’s death, he thought the family was incomplete and his mother gradually became short-spoken and seldom told him about some something important in order to remove his worrying. This depressive atmosphere in his family allowed him to form a long shadow. Thus, after many times of suicides, he started to plan to kill his mum to help her reunite with his father in heaven. He finally did it. The parenting and family atmosphere led to Wu’s twisted psychology. The lack of love, accompanying, communication and understanding from Wu’s mum caused this. Atticus didn’t act like this. His accompanying was filled with his children’s live. Reading newspaper and books is common in their daily lives. Therefore, Scout and Jem grew without psychological