status that break human interaction. Color skin prejudice in Maycomb are prepared to result cruel and hates.
It can be proved from this quotation:
“What about the Chinese, and the Cajuns down yonder in Baldwin County?” “I mean in Maycomb County. The thing about it is, our kind of folks don’t like the
Cunninghams, the Cunninghams don’t like the Ewells, and the Ewells hate and despise the colored folks.” p.227
4.2 Underestimate
In the novel Kill To A Mockingbird there are many moral values to be learned, most importantly dont underestimate others abilities and stand up for what you believe is right. These
moral values can be found throughout the book as the main characters learn them. Through the course of the trial, Atticus, Jem, Scout, Boo, Tom, and Dill learn the importance of these moral
values.
One of the main moral in to kill a mockingbird is underestimate. It can destroy human’s sympathy and understanding that result misunderstanding and ignorant. Atticus tells scout should
always try to put herself in someone else’s point of view before judges them. It can be prove from this quotation:
“First of all,” he said, “if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you
consider things from his point of view-”
“Sir?” “-until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
Atticus said I had learned many things today, and Miss Caroline had learned several things herself. She had learned not to hand something to a Cunningham,
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Underestimate also effects Jem and Scout’s judgment to another person, they judge Boo Radley with expectation that he is a superstitions person, and make them want to take another person
business. It can be proved from quotation below:
“Son,” he said to Jem, “I’m going to tell you something and tell you one time: stop tormenting that man. That goes for the other two of you.”
What Mr. Radley did was his own business. If he wanted to come out, he would. If he wanted to stay inside his own house he had the right to stay inside free from
the attentions of inquisitive children, which was a mild term for the likes of us. How would we like it if Atticus barged in on us without knocking, when we were
in our rooms at night? We were, in effect, doing the same thing to Mr. Radley. What Mr. Radley did might seem peculiar to us, but it did not seem peculiar to
him. Furthermore, had it never occurred to us that the civil way to communicate with another being was by the front door instead of a side window? Lastly, we
were to stay away from that house until we were invited there, we were not to play an asinine game he had seen us playing or make fun of anybody on this street
or in this town- p.49
The adversity faced by the family reveals Atticus’ parenting style, his focus on instilling moral values in Jem and Scout. He tells his children to avoid getting in fights and not no underestimate
another person, because it deals to kill a mockingbird, because it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. When he gave us our air-rifles Atticus wouldn’t teach us to shoot. Uncle Jack
instructed us in the rudiments thereof; he said Atticus wasn’t interested in guns. Atticus said to Jem one day, “I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I
know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it.
“Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they
don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” p. 91
Mr Ewell tell that a negro is dangerous to live arround his property, it proves that a negro is not a good man.
“Then what did you do?”
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A man is equal to another eventhough he is a colored man. It can be proved by quotation below :
He jerked his head at Dill: “Things haven’t caught up with that one’s instinct yet. Let him get a little older and he won’t get sick and cry. Maybe things’ll strike him
as being—not quite right, say, but he won’t cry, not when he gets a few years on him.”
“Cry about what, Mr. Raymond?” Dill’s maleness was beginning to assert itself. “Cry about the simple hell people give other people—without even thinking. Cry
about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that
they’re people, too.” “Atticus says cheatin‘ a colored man is ten times worse than cheatin’ a white man,” I
muttered. “Says it’s the worst thing you can do.” p.201 When Jem stops scout to mash roly-poly, it means that Jem demonstrates a desire to protect
anything that does no harm, and it is a sinful to take advantage or destroy something weaker than one’s self just as it is a sin to kill a mockingbird that represented by Tom’s suffer and death. It
can be prove from the quotation below: Jem was scowling. It was probably a part of the stage he was going through, and I
wished he would hurry up and get through it. He was certainly never cruel to animals, but I had never known his charity to embrace the insect world.
“Why couldn’t I mash him?” I asked. “Because they don’t bother you,” Jem answered in the darkness. He had turned
out his reading light. “Reckon you’re at the stage now where you don’t kill flies and mosquitoes now, I
reckon,” I said. “Lemme know when you change your mind. Tell you one thing, though, I ain’t gonna sit around and not scratch a redbug.”
“Aw dry up,” he answered drowsily. p.238
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there is no man more powerful than others, especially in law; so it is not good to under estimate someone else.
“But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid
man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of
the United States or the humblest J.P. court in the land, or this honorable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but
in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal.p.205
It is not right that some people who smarter than others, some people who have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies
make better cakes than others make different than other because everyone is created equal and we should not underestimate someone else.
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4.3 Slender
