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To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee: Character Analysis

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In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, there was a lot of lessons taught throughout the novel. With the main one being to crawl into others skin, not judging from first impressions and from what you hear. First, being the kids to crawl into Atticus’ skin from what the kids were hearing from people in the town about Atticus. “ You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view”. The kids started treating Atticus badly because they were listening to what everyone was saying about him. Atticus started explaining everything to the kids about what the town was saying and having the children crawling into his skin. “I certainly am. I do my best to love everybody.”(Atticus pg 108) It helped the kids understand about Atticus more and what he was coming from since he was called “lazy”, “defending a black man” and explaining the situations that made Atticus seem like a “bad” person. The kids changed their prospective by rethinking about what Atticus said to them. Another way the kids crawled into someone's skin was from getting the courage from Mrs. Dubose …show more content…

Dubose skin about why she had her morphine addiction “meant to break herself of it before something happened”. It is explaining that it was hard to break from the addiction. Mrs. Dubose explains to the kids what happened to make her want to get onto drugs, and what she did to break from it. The bad situations caused her to make bad choices. “She was the bravest person I have ever known”. (Atticus) explaining that Atticus was praising her for her to break from the morphine. The kids realized what situations can do to people and they know now that in any situation will get better over

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