Essay On Innocence In To Kill A Mockingbird

Scout and Jem’s decisions were impacted greatly by how much Atticus has taught them. The methods he uses to bring them up are differ greatly, and give his children a very different set of beliefs than the majority of the people of Maycomb. For example, he teaches them about empathy, a ‘skill’ that much of the community does not know. “You can never really understand a person... until you climb into their skin and walk around in it” (39). Atticus teaches his kids how to empathize with someone, giving them an ideal to live by. As a child grows up, a lot of times they inherit their parent’s belief system as well. He will continue his open-,minded accepting attitude into his children, and their future decisions will be affected greatly by Atticus’s

When the Flinch children moved into Maycomb bad rumors were spread about the Radley house, and soon the children were terrified of this “ghostly” neighbor. Little to their knowledge Boo Radley was not a scary mean person like they thought. Boo taught both Jem and Scout that you should not judge people based on what rumors say. For example, in the beginning of the novel Scout and Jem find a knothole in a tree, but when they kept going to the tree there was always something new, like someone had been putting presents for them in their. “I were trotting in our orbit one mild October afternoon when our knot-hole stopped us again. Something white was inside this time.” (page 79). Even though Boo knew that the kids were scared of him and that they believed the rumors he still put effort into making their day and giving them something. Another example was at the very end of the novel when Boo Radley saved Jem and Scouts life. At this moment Scout had a whole new respect for Boo because he wasn't what everyone said. He was better than that. “ A man was passing under it. The man was walking with the staccato steps of someone carrying a load too heavy for him. He was going around the corner. He was carrying jem. Jem’s arm was dangling crazily in front of him.”(page 352). That was Boo that was carrying Jem back to the Flinch house. Boo Radley saved their lives and Scout will never forget him and learned a valuable lesson

First, Jem and Scout learn that things or people aren’t always what they seem to be. There are two minor characters that most help to emphasize this important lesson. To start, there is Ol’ One Shot. In the novel, Scout and Jem jump to the conclusion that Atticus is incapable of doing anything “cool” like the fathers of their schoolmates’ can. Because of Atticus’ old age, the children take notice that he never plays football, fishes, hunts, etc. However, after Atticus is handed a rifle, they realize what he can do. Miss Maudie shouts, “I saw that, One-Shot Finch” (128), and later tells Jem, “...Atticus Finch was the deadest shot in Maycomb County in his time” (129). By this statement, and by hearing about Ol’ One Shot, the children learned that they do not know every little detail about everyone, and that they shouldn’t make judgements so immediately like they did. Jem and Scout did not know about Ol’ One Shot, but once they found out, their opinions about their father changed. Thus, they took in that people aren’t always what they seem to be. The next character

In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, the main characters Scout and Jem, embark upon a three year journey of moral development in which they gain wisdom and understanding, allowing them to mature. In the book, they are taught by their father, Atticus, to be good, moral people. Atticus does this because he does not want his children to be instilled with the racist beliefs of Maycomb. Scout and Jem deal with the townspeople’s backlash against their father, who defends an african-american, Tom Robinson, in court, and they confront Mr. Arthur ”Boo” Radley, who they believe to be a monster. Even though Scout and Jem experience many of the same pivotal moments, the ways they deal with, cope, and understand their maturation differs greatly.

Atticus Finch, the father of Jem and Scout, is a prime example of compassion throughout the novel. When Tom Robinson had been accused of beating and raping Bob Ewell's oldest daughter Mayella Ewell, Atticus was tasked to prove Robinson innocent. By going to see Robinson’s family

Do you have a younger sibling? Or cousin? You know, the one who asks all the questions about everything, the person who just doesn’t understand all that political talk, and almost always acts like world is an amazing place? Yes, that kid. We’ve all encountered them, and labeled their behavior as either cute or downright annoying, but have you ever thought of why? Why they love the world so much? Why they don’t “get” it? Are they just ignorant, or is it innocence? In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee chose Scout Finch, the youngest and a child, to narrate the story to prove how children’s innocence cause them to have a less biased view on the world compared to adults, who do not have the same innocence and therefore stick to their set ways.

As a child, Harper Lee’s father took part in the Scottsboro boys case as a lawyer. This event in her life inspired her to write To Kill a Mockingbird, which takes place in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. Her father, like Scout’s, was a lawyer in the case. In her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee foreshadows a loss of innocence through the significance of snow, the white camellia, and the mockingbird.

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee teaches readers that when people begin to understand the world more fully, they may lose their sense of innocence. This is shown many times throughout the novel, but especially during Tom Robinson’s trial, when Walter Cunningham’s mob shows up at the jail, and when Mr. Ewell attacks Scout and Jem.

The pure act of innocence, helpfulness, tenderness, soon to be destroyed by the evil-hearted of the less fortunate. An evil act of hatred destroyed a man and his family. The family, never to see their father again, is traumatized by the act of people who hate others and is willing to do anything and everything to get them out of their sight. To represent a Mockingbird, you represent innocence, and to kill a Mockingbird, it is to destroy innocence. Tom Robinson in “To Kill a Mockingbird”, written by Harper Lee represents a Mockingbird because he was only trying to help but, he was killed out of pure innocence.

One’s purity is a prized possession that is difficult to abdicate. Even so, the loss of such innocence allows one to grow up and mature into an individual capable of experiencing new ambitious struggles. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee identifies Jem as the symbolic mockingbird due to the experiences he encounters that cause his innocence to be lost.

Jem, Scout, and Dill were three kids raised in the Deep South in a small town known as Maycomb, Alabama in the early 1930’s. These kids grew up around racism and prejudice all their life. Atticus Finch, the father of Scout and Jem, raised the kids by himself with later help by Aunt Alexandra. During this part of the children’s lives, a positive, genuine, black man by the name of Tom Robinson was falsely accused of raping Mayella Ewell. Atticus Finch was the defense attorney of this trial and did everything he could to free him. Most people today would view this way of living as ruthless and wrong, but in these times, it was just another day. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee painted a solid picture of the theme of loss of innocence through Dill, Scout, and Jem and their experiences in the story.

In the novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, Harper Lee(author) has perfectly portrayed innocence to experience through the eyes of Jean Louis Finch(a.k.a. Scout).The lessons, on which, Scout incurs: Lee does an excellent job of building suspense in the closing chapters; the suspense which Lee builds helps us and scout understand the lessons that is being conveyed. Near the end of the novel,Maycomb is bustling, since it is the night of Halloween. Scout’s older brother,Jeremy Atticus Finch(a.k.a Jem) does not dress up, however, Scout dresses up as a ham hock for Mrs.Merriweather’s Halloween pageant. Scout describes her costume as a ham with legs:

When an innocent black man is controversially charged and killed on conviction of rape, two young siblings will discover their town is not as perfect as they thought in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. In the novel, the girl, Scout, and her older brother, Jem, start out as innocent and carefree children, but undergo a change as problems arise for their family as a result of supporting the convicted yet innocent man, Tom Robinson. As Jem and Scout grow up and start to learn about their world, Lee introduces different scenarios in which Jem and Scout learn that not everyone in their world is kind and understanding. This makes the reader realize that innocence is a pure thing that only the most kind, carefree people can preserve, but

When you're younger it seems as if there is no bad in the world and everything is perfect, but that is just an illusion. Becoming aware of the world you actually live in can come with consequences. Realizing people lie, and cause corruption some even harm people without even thinking twice, can cause some emotional pain. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird Jem and Scout experience loss of innocence due to the shocking reality of Maycomb.

To begin, both children learn the lesson from the saying “It is a sin to kill a mockingbird”. When the novel begins, the mystery revolves around Boo Radley who is the mysterious neighbor. Although the children are afraid of him, they have not had an interaction with him. Without this interaction, Jem or Scout do not have a justifiable reason as to why they are so afraid of the despicable Boo Radley. The novel states, “mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people's gardens , don’t nest in corncribs. They don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for