In to Kill a Mockingbird
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In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout is a young girl who grows up in a small town in Alabama called Maycomb County. In this small town there is prejudice, racism, and hypocrisy. Growing up surrounded by these issues she learns a lot of life lessons about herself and people she knows. Scout learns many life lessons and understands life better towards the end of the book.
What are life lessons? Life lessons are things a person experiences in life. In To Kill a Mockingbird, Scout learns many life lessons. One life lesson would be how Scout learns her dad doesn’t really care what people think about him. She learns this when she is at school and she come home and tells her dad that people were calling him bad names. She realizes her dad doesn’t care what people are saying about him. It is hard to stand up for something when you know others don’t agree. Her dad is independent he does what he wants and he isn’t influenced by what people say.
Scout learns that her dad is a great father. Even though she doesn’t say anything you can just tell. When Scout and her dad talk in the beginning it is clear that Scout really doesn’t understand her dad. Towards the end Scout understands her dad by the way she looks