Similarities Between To Kill A Mockingbird And Edward Scissorhands

Growing up is like making a hill by putting one grain of sand down a day. There is not one day or one thing that really makes a meaningful difference, making defining when the goal is accomplished really hard. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there Is Atticus, who is a knowledgeable and polite lawyer and father of Jem, who is a curious child and Scout, who is a much younger girl who doesn't follow stereotypes. Edward Scissorhands is a movie by Tim Burton about a girl named Peg, who brings back Edward, a man with Scissorhands, to her house, to live with her family, Kim, Kevin, and Bill. Through To Kill a Mockingbird and Edward Scissorhands, both Lee and Burton argue that what distinguishes children from young adults is knowledge of how

Atticus tells her “If you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view” (39). In this quote, it shows that Scout, who is not only a child, but the representation of children, does not know how to look at things from other people's perspectives. Furthermore, she still isn’t able to look at things from other’s perspectives even though Atticus told her to, and this lasts until the end when she is entering adulthood. The quote also shows that Atticus, the symbol of reasonable adults does know better than to judge someone without walking in their shoes first. This means that all reasonable adults know not to judge someone without walking in their shoes first while no child does.

Harper Lee proves that what distinguishes children from adults is knowledge of social norms in her book To Kill a Mockingbird when Scout was describing what Aunt Alexandra thought of her, showing that adults know social norms while children do not. Scout said “Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants” (108). This quotation shows that Aunt Alexandra knew the social norms of that time and lived by them, but that Scout did not know them and that even once she was told them she did not follow or accept them. Aunt Alexandra is the mother figure in the book and so she is also a representation of adults.That means that Harper Lee is saying that all adults should know and live by the social norms of the time they are living in. At the same time with Scout, she is saying that most children don’t know and follow the social norms of their time. Harper Lee is clearly trying to tell us through Aunt Alexandra and Scout that adults know and follow the social norms of the time while children do not. She is saying this because knowing and following social norms of the time is a distinguishing factor between children and young adults. Similarly, Tim Burton believes that the