To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee: Character Analysis

Through the motivational speaker Alexander Den Heijer, people get a fuller understanding of how people grow up, he once said, “When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower”. By this he is trying to say that children learn a great amount from their environment in their early years. If people have a good environment they will grow up and teach others that. However, environment isn’t everything, children head into their childhood with an empty mind, they are waiting to be filled up with knowledge, they then take that knowledge into the real world as a child, looking to learn even more.Through the portrayal of Jem and Scout, Harper Lee suggest that children are often able to look at complex situations

In Maycomb, a prime example of this is Aunt Alexandra. In the novel Aunt Alexandra disagrees with what Scout is wearing because it doesn’t fit her description of what she was taught wear, Scout describes“Aunt Alexandra was fanatical on the subject of my attire. I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches...” (108). By Aunt Alexandra saying this she is showing how she only has one mindset. Aunt Alexandra can't see that the world is changing and she can’t accept the way that Scout is dressed because she wasn't brought up that way, and she isn’t going to change what she was taught by one thing because the idea of what girls are suppose to wear was implanted so deeply into her brain. This relates back to the claim because it shows that it is very tough to change your ways, Aunt Alexandra can’t seem to accept that Scout is wearing something not lady-like. Another good example of this in the novel was Mrs. Dubose. Even though most of the time she was having

Ignorance can often be a blessing for children, shielding them in a way. This innocence can allow them to diffuse difficult situations. In the novel there were many circumstances where children used their innocence in tense situations, making the situation much less tense without even knowing it. One good example of this was Scout, when a mob of white men showed up at the jail, arguing with Atticus, telling him to let them kill Tom Robinson, when Scout showed up, pushed through the mob of men and said “H-ey Atticus” (203). By scout saying this she caused the crowd to quiet down, even though she had no idea what she had just walked in on, she had still diffused the situation. Due to Scouts ignorance, she was able to walk through the crowd of angry men, get to the front, quiet them down, and cool their tempers, simply because the men wouldn’t cause a ruckus with a child in the middle of it. This relates back to the claim because it is showing that children’s ignorance can’t only diffuse situations, but it can also be taken better than adults. Another example of children’s ignorance coming into play in the book, is from the same science, but it is a different example of Scout calming down the situation. After Scout pushed her way through the mob of men and she turned the situations’ intensity down, she then proceeded to say “Hey, Mr. Cunningham… Hey, Mr. Cunningham.