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Perspective Understanding To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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The Effect of Perspective Understanding To Kill a Mockingbird, written by Harper Lee, brings into great perspective how important genuine understanding may be in day-to-day life. Her story follows siblings living in southern Alabama, positioned in the heart of a town poisoned by prejudice. As a young girl facing morals through her eyes and her father as a lawyer, she is persistent in defending a black man accused of crime. Willing to stand up for what is right against rigid set in stone views shared by the town. Simply, a small sympathetic perspective is all it takes to sway mindsets. At the beginning of the book from the eyes of Scout, she complains to her father Atticus, who is a lawyer, about her misfortunes in school that particular day. …show more content…

Most people would kill the bug out of spite or grossness, but Scout doesn't. Scout and Jem also learn and understand other people in Maycomb. One of the first people to learn to not judge before knowing their whole story is Mrs. Dubose. Dubose lives two doors down from the Finch’s. She is extremely racist and rude, so Jem decides to cut her flowers which ends up in both Jem and Scout reading to her for five weeks. When they start out, they hate her, even stating in chapter 11 that they hate her. Mrs. Dubose drools, her house smells repulsive, and she doesn't seem to listen to Jem reading to her while still insulting them. For Scout and Jem, they don't like her, but soon understand why she is the way she is. Mrs. Dubose was a morphine addict and decided to get out of addiction before she died. Atticus reminds them, “‘She’s an old lady and she’s ill.be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.’” Clearly teaching them that no matter what someone says or thinks, you must not let it affect your morals and

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