Kill A Mockingbird, By Harper Lee - 1394 Words

Growing up is one of the most exciting processes that everyone will face in their life span but at the same time, it can also be one of the crudest and devastating. Children experience the world differently than adults because of the fact that most children have a blanket over their head to protect them from the dangers of the world. In their protective world, a child will most of the time only experience the joy and contentment. Once that blanket if lifted, the resentment and the unfairness will be shown. Throughout this process, many lessons are learned and the real world will be seen by the children. In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout and Jem are each five and nine years old, and as the continues, these two children began to†¦show more content†¦But Atticus taught Scout a lesson instead. He told her that to interact with other people better, Scout needs to â€Å"consider things from his point of view until [she] can climb into his skin and walk around it .† (39 Lee) Atticus is trying to teach Scout that there is more than one view of a situation due to the fact that everyone is different. She immediately starts to try this out by walking into her brother Jem’s shoes, but fails. Over the time of around 10 chapters, Scout finally starts to understand this tip during Tom Robinson’s trial. When he gave his testimony, Scout thought â€Å"’that Mayella Ewell must be the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley.’† (191) Scout has begun to show maturity and is walking in someone else’s shoes. She is beginning to connect to Mayella. All of this lesson has lead Scout to more mature thinking and better understanding to the thoughts of other people. Secondly, Scout learns about prejudice and how everyone should equal because humans are humans, no matter what the color of their skin is or how rich that person is. In the novel, when Scout invited Walter Cunningham to lunc h. When everyone was eating, Walter poured a generous amount of syrup on to his vegetables, and Scout started to judge Walter. When Calpurnia called Scout out to discuss about this issue, Scout told