To Kill A Mockingbird Respect

When you were younger at some point you believed the world was filled with generous and kind people. Then eventually there was someone in your life who influenced and showed you that the world was nothing other than that. To Kill a Mockingbird a novel written by Harper Lee told mostly from the point of view of a little girl named Jean Louise, nicknamed Scout. She lives in a old town called Maycomb in the time of the depression with her widowed father Atticus and older brother Jem. Once her father who is lawyer takes on a case of defending a black man who is being accused of rape, because of that the children get brung into the light of the racism that goes on in their town. Through the book, To KIll a Mockingbird, we learn respect for individuals

Dubose gained respect from Jem and Mrs. Dubose gave Jem the knowledge of wisdom and to not critique someone by your first glance. Jem did that same thing of critiquing her before she died, he would walk by her house everyday with his sister and once they passed they would say rude things about her. About how if she didn’t have anything better to do than barrage them with her words every day when they would walk by. She would say things like “Your father’s no better than the niggers and trash he works for!”(p. 102). Just making Jem mad and ready to spit at her and tell her something about herself, instead he would just tell Scout. “She was horrible. Her face was the color of a dirty pillowcase, and the corners of her mouth glistened with wet, which inched like a glacier down the deep grooves enclosing her chin.”(p. 106). That shows how Jem and scout understanding of her before they knew the reasons behind her crankiness and her need to get her mind off of things, they thought it was an eccentricity. Once she dies Jem feels as if he has done something wrong because he didn’t know she was a morphine addict and all the needs of correcting everything while Jem read to her was her way of trying to get her mind off of it. Mrs. Dubose was never trying to be malevolent to anybody she was trying to pass the time for her next

“The rifle cracked. Tim johnson leaped, flopped over and crumpled on the sidewalk…. Jem was paralyzed. I pinched to get him moving, but when Atticus saw us coming he called, “Stay where you are.””(p. 96-97). That quote stating that Jem was paralyzed with fear and excitement displayed how surprised he was that his dad could do that. In a brief amount of time Jem understood clearly how to have respect for yourself and other people, he learned it from his father. “Naw, Scout, it’s something you wouldn’t understand. Atticus is real old, but I wouldn’t care if couldn’t do anything---I wouldn’t care if he couldn’t do a blessed thing.”(p. 99). In Scout and Jem’s conversation Scout was talking about how she is going to tell everyone in school that her dad was “Ol’ One-Shot.”(p. 98). On the other hand Jem was explaining to her that the reason he never told them and only the people that were indigenous to Maycomb at the time knew, was that maybe he wasn’t proud of it and that they shouldn’t be going around school spreading it. Exhibiting how he respected Atticus’s choice of not telling people about his past that he might be ashamed