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Main Lesson In To Kill A Mockingbird

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To kill a mocking bird is about growing up. The main character is about a girl named Scout Finch who was about to turn six when the book began and eight when it ended. The book was about what she learnt about people and about life over the course of three years. The book took place between 1933-1935 in Maycomb, a small sleepy town of Alabama in the Deep South. Scout’s father Atticus is a lawyer, but they don’t have much money because his clients were poor due to the effect of The Great Depression. Scout lived with her father, her brother Jem and their cook Calpurnia. During the summer a friend named Dill came to stay next door and he spent the summer playing with Scout and Jem. Scout learnt four main lesson during the course of the book. She learnt them partly from her father and partly from her own experiences. Lesson 1- You cannot really understand a person unless you put yourself in their shoes. The first part of the book shows that she takes quite a while to master this lesson. Across the street from where scout lives is the Radley’s house. The Radley’s are not very social and the son, Arthur Radley is a man in his thirties who have not been outside in years. The children in the town refers to him as Boo Radley as if he was a ghost. They have a horrible picture …show more content…

When Atticus gives the kids air riffles for christmas, he told them that they are allowed to shoot at any birds if they can, but to remember that it is a sin to kill a mocking bird. Scouts neighbor Miss Maudie told her that Atticus was right because “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 us”. Mocking bird in the book also has a metaphorical meaning, anyone who is weak or defenseless. To kill a mocking bird in that sense is to take advantage of someone weaker than you. Lesson 3- Never give up even if you know you are going to

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