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Adam Mack Mrs. Swafford English 10 Silver 2 2 April 2024 TKAM Essay Harper Lee teaches many life lessons life lessons can teach you lots of things that impact you for the rest of your life and change your moral values and how you look at life. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, set in a small rural town called Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. Throughout the book, the kids see lots of things that teach them lessons later on. These lessons to the kids are not apparent to them at the start, but they realize them later on. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee illustrates many life lessons to the characters that ultimately change them for the rest of their lives. The kids learn to never judge a book by its cover, the kids thought that Boo was a monster but then they find out later on in the book that he is a nice and caring person. …show more content…

This quote shows that the kids thought that Boo was a monster because of what he ate and what he looked like. The kids also judge Boo by the way they described him, by making him seem like a big monster, by making stuff up about him like eating raw squirrels. “...Mr. Nathan put cement in that tree, Atticus, an’ he did it to stop us findin’ things-he’s crazy, I reckon, like they say, I swear to God he ain’t ever harmed us, he ain’t ever hurt us, he coulda cut my throat ear to ear that night but he tried to men many pants instead...he ain’t ever hurt us, Atticus-”(96). This shows that Atticus is a nice person because the kids find out that he is not a crazy man. The kids find out at the end that Boo is a nice guy and not a monster and he just wants to help people. This is a life lesson because at the beginning the kids were judging Boo by the way he looked and what he ate, but then they realized that Boo is a nice guy and not a

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