This book shows how good a family can be in time of need. It shows the benefit of the advice a good family can give. Family is one of the most important people to have. Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” shows that family can be the most important people to ever have, can give great life lessons and show how family doesn’t have to be blood related.
Firstly, family can be the most important people you could ever have . Jem knew about how important family was that he wouldn’t ever want to disappoint Atticus. “Ma’am? Asked Jem. Atticus spoke “where’re your pants, son?” “Pants, sir?” “Pants”(Lee 61). This shows how Jem was scared of disappointing his father that he would lie even if the lie was obvious. Though later on Dill helped bail Jem out of it. Jem also was very angered when someone talked about his dad badly. “He carried my baton in one hand; its filthy yellow tassel trailed on the rug. He held out his other hand it contained fat camellia buds” (Lee 117). Though Jem got punished for his
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This quote happened almost immediately after the last quote. This shows how passionate not only Jem is but how everyone else in the family is about their family. “You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ‘em get your goal. Try fighting with your head for a change.” (Lee 120) Atticus showed Jem a great lesson of how he should think before you act and this helped Jem later on in the story. Atticus also gave great life lessons to scout as well not only Jem. First of all, if you 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 . . . until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. (Lee 33) Atticus was showing scout that you can’t judge people based on outside evidence. Sometimes some people have situations going on that we don’t know