The lessons that can be taught and learned from To Kill a Mockingbird are endless. Lessons about love, family, racism, and courage abound in the book. In the article "Lawyers, Ethics, and To Kill a Mockingbird" author Tim Dare states the following:
Much of the credit for Scout's moral development is owed to Atticus. He is a loving,
paitent, and understanding father....He teaches them compassion and tolerance
frequently advising Scout to "step into the shoes" of others...Atticus treats everybody
with respect, regardless of class or color. He is courageous, both in zealously
pursuing Tom's defense while knowing that it will not succeed and in arming himself
only with a newspaper though anticipating a confrontation with a lynch mob. In sum,
Atticus's is a voice of decency, wisdom, and reason, courageoulsy speaking out against
bigotry, ignorance, and prejudice, (Dale, 128).
By looking towards Atticus as just one example, all can learn be a better person treating those around them with the love, respect, and kindess that all deserve by virtue of being human.
To Kill a Mockingbird effects each reader in a different way. In my high school English class there were readers that read it simply because they had too, and after completing the assignments promptly forgot about the lessons in the book. Then there were readers like me; ones who continue to read it year after year and continue to pull lessons from it. As I look at the world around me today where violence seems to be the easist answer, and its easier to accuse random strangers you see on the sidewalk for crimes they've never committed than accpet that fact that the world is changing, I continue to take comfort in the knowledge and wisdom contained in this book.
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect
for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
“Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
“It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just
shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason
for us not to try to win.”
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world
they've never learned to live in this one."
“Things are always better in the morning.”
“It's not time to worry yet”
Sources
Dare, T. (2001). Lawyers, Ethics, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Philosophy and Literature 25(1), 127-141. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved December 8, 2016, from Project MUSE database.
Johnson, C. D. (1994). Understanding To kill a mockingbird: a student casebook to issues, sources, and historic documents (Vol. 1). Greenwood Publishing Group.
Much of the credit for Scout's moral development is owed to Atticus. He is a loving,
paitent, and understanding father....He teaches them compassion and tolerance
frequently advising Scout to "step into the shoes" of others...Atticus treats everybody
with respect, regardless of class or color. He is courageous, both in zealously
pursuing Tom's defense while knowing that it will not succeed and in arming himself
only with a newspaper though anticipating a confrontation with a lynch mob. In sum,
Atticus's is a voice of decency, wisdom, and reason, courageoulsy speaking out against
bigotry, ignorance, and prejudice, (Dale, 128).
By looking towards Atticus as just one example, all can learn be a better person treating those around them with the love, respect, and kindess that all deserve by virtue of being human.
To Kill a Mockingbird effects each reader in a different way. In my high school English class there were readers that read it simply because they had too, and after completing the assignments promptly forgot about the lessons in the book. Then there were readers like me; ones who continue to read it year after year and continue to pull lessons from it. As I look at the world around me today where violence seems to be the easist answer, and its easier to accuse random strangers you see on the sidewalk for crimes they've never committed than accpet that fact that the world is changing, I continue to take comfort in the knowledge and wisdom contained in this book.
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect
for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
“Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
“It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just
shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.”
“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason
for us not to try to win.”
There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world
they've never learned to live in this one."
“Things are always better in the morning.”
“It's not time to worry yet”
Sources
Dare, T. (2001). Lawyers, Ethics, and To Kill a Mockingbird. Philosophy and Literature 25(1), 127-141. The Johns Hopkins University Press. Retrieved December 8, 2016, from Project MUSE database.
Johnson, C. D. (1994). Understanding To kill a mockingbird: a student casebook to issues, sources, and historic documents (Vol. 1). Greenwood Publishing Group.