Have you ever wondered what the moral of life is? In To Kill a Mockingbird, the community works together to teach the children moral lessons. The community teaches the children about courage, equality, and how it is like to stand in someone’s shoes. These lessons help the children understand that it is okay to be different from everyone. The children learns about courage from Mrs.Dubose and Boo Radley. In the book, Jem destroys the camellias from Mrs.Dubose’s front yard, as punishment she ask him to read to her for a month. Jem and Scout learns that Mrs.Dubose had only a few months to live, she was truly courageous to try to, as Atticus said, “Break herself from the addiction before she died, and that is what she did.” (Lee 148) In the end of the book, Boo Radley saves Jem and Scout from Mr.Ewell who was chasing them with a knife. Scout understands now that Boo Radley is not a vicious monster but a hero, if word got out of his doing, many will still think of him as a monster for killing Bob Ewell, but he took the risk and that is courage. Mrs.Dubose’s addiction and Boo’s heroism are both different acts of courage, and just because they are different, it does not mean they are not equal. …show more content…
One day at recess, Cecil Jacobs had announced that, “Scout Finch’s daddy defended niggers.” (Lee 99) Cecil Jacobs is expressing that if Atticus is defending a negro, that Atticus’s value has gone down and the negroes are not even people to him. At the courthouse, the juries’ representation is consisted of only white males. There is no equality for both blacks and females because they show white males superior than all the others. Cecil Jacobs and the juries are not examples of equality, but maybe thinking in a different perspective some might think they