Throughout the world people are not accepted for their race, color, or ethnicity. This story is told in the first person point of view from what Scout Finch sees. The setting of this novel was set in Maycomb, Alabama. In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, people are taught about the importance of acceptance of people because of three people in the story. Throughout the story these characters accept everybody in the story no matter who they are. Atticus, Scout, and Jem are the three characters who choose to accept others no matter their differences. Scout is a round character and shows the most acceptance throughout the story. This includes at the end of the story when Boo Radley saves her and Jem from getting killed by Mr. Ewell. She accepts him by walking with him and getting to know him despite nobody seeing or talking to him for years. Scout states “ she chose to walk with Boo Radley to make him look like a gentleman.” (Lee, Page 282). He also looks different from everyone else because he is very pale from lack of sunlight because he sat inside his house but this did not detour Scout as she walked right beside him from her house all the way back to his house. …show more content…
When Atticus was asked why he was defending him he said “ If I didn’t I could hold my head up in town, I couldn’t represent this country in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again.” (Lee, Page 78). The people of Maycomb tried to storm the county jail to attack Tom Robinson but Atticus waited overnight and stopped the angry townsfolk from hurting Tom and got in a verbal confrontation with them. In court he tried everything he could to convince the jury Tom was not guilty but they had made up their mind before the trial started which resulted in him being