To Kill A Mockingbird Education Theme
How does Harper Lee develop the theme of education in Part 1 of ‘To kill a Mockingbird’
This essay is about how Harper Lee transmits education in Part 1 of ‘To kill a Mockingbird’. Education to me is a process or activities that impart knowledge or skill. I think it is facts, skills and ideas that have been learnt, either formally or informally. In this book Jem and Scout learn in a formal and informal way, formal by going to school and informal by learning with the neighbours and by getting street knowledge. She develops this idea of education by presenting us with a very detailed and thought out where she creates different themes and lessons. Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.
There are lots of ways in which Harper Lee develops education in the novel. In somewhat she tries to criticize how the state education in the south is being taught through cynical remarks, but also to bring out good views of it. One lesson that Scout learns from Atticus is to look at …show more content…
He is a good shooter with the rifle, but he decided long ago that "Atticus would only shoot when it was absolutely necessary to do so". The children learn a lesson about how very civilized their father is and what it means to be civilized.
Atticus tries to teach Jem and Scout about courage. When Ms Dubose died Atticus “wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.” “It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin". Atticus tried to teach them a lesson by using Ms Dubose because he thought that “she was the bravest person I ever knew” and he wanted them to learn it from her. Mrs. Dubose was fighting an addiction to morphine and was trying to stay alive without the use of the medicine. After she died Atticus told Jem and Scout:
"Mrs. Dubose is a morphine addict, she took it as a pain killer for
This essay is about how Harper Lee transmits education in Part 1 of ‘To kill a Mockingbird’. Education to me is a process or activities that impart knowledge or skill. I think it is facts, skills and ideas that have been learnt, either formally or informally. In this book Jem and Scout learn in a formal and informal way, formal by going to school and informal by learning with the neighbours and by getting street knowledge. She develops this idea of education by presenting us with a very detailed and thought out where she creates different themes and lessons. Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work.
There are lots of ways in which Harper Lee develops education in the novel. In somewhat she tries to criticize how the state education in the south is being taught through cynical remarks, but also to bring out good views of it. One lesson that Scout learns from Atticus is to look at …show more content…
He is a good shooter with the rifle, but he decided long ago that "Atticus would only shoot when it was absolutely necessary to do so". The children learn a lesson about how very civilized their father is and what it means to be civilized.
Atticus tries to teach Jem and Scout about courage. When Ms Dubose died Atticus “wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.” “It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin". Atticus tried to teach them a lesson by using Ms Dubose because he thought that “she was the bravest person I ever knew” and he wanted them to learn it from her. Mrs. Dubose was fighting an addiction to morphine and was trying to stay alive without the use of the medicine. After she died Atticus told Jem and Scout:
"Mrs. Dubose is a morphine addict, she took it as a pain killer for