Good and Evil

Good and Evil

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a great classic about a family during the Great Depression. Scout and Jem are the two kids who get themselves into some pretty hairy situations. They also learn a lot throughout the book about people and about friendship. Their Father Atticus is a great parent who teaches them morals throughout the book. Jem goes through a big change in his life when he meets Mrs.Dubose and watches her die. Scout, the narrator of the book learns an important part of life by meeting a man named Boo Radley and by slowly learning more about him. Scout and Jem learn a lot from their father and by experiencing some pretty wild events. The author throughout the book shows us that no one person is good or evil and sometimes to realize that you have to look at things from their point of view.

Mrs. Dubose is an old mean lady who lives close to the Finches. She has a rather strong addiction to Morphine and she dies while Jem is taking care of her. Jem always hated her and so did Scout but after she dies Atticus has a talk with them. Atticus tells them, “ She was, and she had her own views about things, a lot different from mine, maybe but… Mrs. Dubose won…she was the bravest person I know.”(112) Atticus realizes that Mrs. Dubose isn’t the nicest person he knows, but he knows in his heart that she wasn’t all that bad. Yeah maybe Mrs. Dubose was an incredibly mean old lady and she was even mean to kids, but she also was an extremely courageous person with battles of her own. Scout and Jem thought she was really just a horrible person until Atticus explained to Jem that he needed to see Ms. Dubose in a different way than they always did. He says to Jem, “ I wanted you to see something about her- I wanted you to see what real courage is.” (112) He wants Jem to see that the important thing is to appreciate the good qualities and have a better understanding of their bad qualities by treating people with respect and looking at things...