The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee tells the story of Jean Louis Finch, nicknamed Scout. She lives in a small town called Maycomb county. The book is based in the 1930s showing us an inside look of what life looked like back then. The book focuses in the stories of Arthur Radley and Tom Robinson, and how they are a major part in her childhood. The book To Kill a Mockingbird portrays Scout as more intellectually developed than most young kids, but she is way too young to fully comprehend the severity of things, and this shows us that kids unconsciously follow the ‘rules’ that society has placed unless taught otherwise.
The book presents Scout as a very intelligent young girl, because she starts by telling us the story of her ancestors and being able to read fluently without even entering first grade.(Lee pg:4.24-27) By reading the first chapter of the book we understand that she is very
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Even though the book portrays her as more intelligently developed, she lacks the ability to comprehend empathy and racism at the beginning of the book. Throughout the book you can compare Scout and Jem and come with the conclusion that Jem her older brother gets a sense of understanding what their father Atticus is trying to teach them. Atticus reinforces his morals onto his kids by telling them before they go out to shoot their air-rifles, “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit’em but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” (Lee pg:147). Scout then goes to Miss Maudie’s house asking her why Atticus had said it was a sin to kill mockingbirds telling us, she doesn’t get the complex but jet simple reason that killing something without a righteous reasons is a sin