Punishment In How To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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It is unbelievable how much society has changed since the 1900s til now, but beating children as a punishment should have never been okay. In How to Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout Finch gets into a fight with Francis. Scout is a 7-year-old girl in the 1930s; she is a tomboy, the daughter of Atticus Finch, and she has an attitude. Francis is Scout’s cousin; he is an 8-year-old boy, the son of Aunt Alexandra, and according to Scout “extremely boring”. Both of them do not see the other often. When Francis starts shaming and insulting Scout's father, Scout unleashes her anger and punches him, but then gets spanked by her uncle. Scout was not punished fairly after she fought Francis because her uncle spanked her. Francis said horrible