To Kill A Mockingbird Moral Development Essay

In “Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development”, there are three levels and six stages. These stages say how one’s experience helps them develop moral understanding. How they have grown and start understanding right from wrong. In the novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, narrated by Scout shows events that have happened in her life that made a significant impact. Throughout the novel Scout was exposed to lots of vital situations where she has learned from, and truly effectively changed her moral development. These scenarios have transformed her to whom she has become at the end of the novel. Scout has gone from stage one (We obey authority figures in order to avoid punishment.) to stage five (Looking beyond laws and decisions by authority members to the

Although, at the end of the novel Scout flourished into a sensible prudent human. In one particular part, Scout got in trouble for informing the teaching about Walter’s circumstances and because of that Scout blamed Walter by rubbing his nose in the in the dirt (Lee 17). Scout actions showed how immature she was and how she didn’t care for any consequence at the time. Walter was not at fault, but she felt that it wasn’t her wrong doing so that lead her to fight him. There was no line of thought for blaming Walter, therefore her opinion of fairness and justice was not present. Soon after, Scout did not want to get in trouble with Atticus anymore, so she promised him that there would not be any more irrigant fighting. In the novel, it reads,“Atticus's promised me he would wear me out if he heard of me fighting anymore [...]”(Lee 62). Scout now being in stage one took into account that she would get in trouble for fighting. For awhile, Scout listened to her authority figure Atticus about not fighting which shows growth in her moral