What Does Jem Learn In To Kill A Mockingbird

Life is like one giant roller coaster. There are many different parts to it. There are ups and downs, good parts and bad parts. But as life goes on, from some of those bad situations, you learn things, like life lessons. Throughout the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the main character, Scout, grows up and matures. While growing up she learned life lessons. One of the most important life lessons that Scout learns is that all people should be treated equally, despite their race or social class. Like Scout, I also learn life lessons as I grow up. One life lesson that I have learned is that people are not always what they seem. While growing up, both Scout and myself learn lessons through difficult situations.
The life lesson that Scout learns is that all people should be treated equally, despite their race or social class. This lesson was taught to Scout

Nothin’s wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one type of folks. Folks” (Lee 259). Whilst explaining his definition of “background”, Jem insinuates that their family is better than Walter’s family because they have been reading and writing longer than their family. Scout strongly disagrees with Jem. With her new understanding that she should treat everyone equally, she knew that Jem was wrong about them being better than the Cunninghams, and that there isn’t four kinds of ‘folks’ in the Maycomb like Jem says, there’s just one, where everyone should equal ,but that’s not the case in Maycomb. This lesson was important for Scout to learn because it has allowed her to be fair and reasonable. Unlike Scout, most of the people in Maycomb have not learned this lesson. One example of this is when a black man named Tom Robinson was put on trial for being accused of raping a white girl name Mayella Ewell. “Judge Taylor was polling the jury: ‘Guilty…guilty…guilty..guilty…’I peaked at Jem: