In this five page paper Atticus's comment to Scout is analyzed in terms of what it reveals about Harper Lee's text. There are no other sources listed in the bibliography.
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No additional sources are used. TGhlkill.rtf Understanding People in Harper Lees "To Kill a Mockingbird" , For - June 2001
-- properly! The small Southern community of Maycomb, Alabama, was populated by many different kinds of people in the early
1930s. There were the rich and the poor, the educated and the illiterate, the so-called normal and abnormal, the black and the white. Southern-born author Harper Lee presents
the rich ethnic and socioeconomic tapestry of Maycomb County, as seen through the eyes of a child, young Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, in her riveting 1960 novel, To Kill a
Mockingbird. Lee wastes no time in pointing out that where there is diversity, there is also inherent prejudice. Because of the inability to understand someone who looks or
acts differently, a person tends to "pre-judge," often inaccurately. Public defender Atticus Finch is not only struggling to change the inequities of the legal system, he also seeks to change
the attitudes of his children, Scout and Jem, who are being exposed to Southern bigotry in all its forms through interaction with other neighborhood children and in the public school
system. After a day which included eating with a poor farm boy, Walter Cunningham, whose desire to put molasses on meat and vegetables forced Scout to demand "what the
sam hill he was doing" (28), and prompted a stern lecture from cook and housekeeper Calpurnia, along with a school incident involving an unkempt child, Burris Ewell, sent home because
of his "cooties" (31), Scout couldnt wait to return to her home and family, where everyone was like her. When Scout informed Atticus that shed rather not return to