the Finch family for dinner, he pours syrup on his meal and Scout mocks him which
leads Atticus to react violently to her treatment of Walter by standing up for him. During
that scene, Atticus’ reaction of Scout’s negativity towards Walter was a way to teach her
that she should not judge others from what she has heard about them although Walter
is part of the Cunningham family and the Cunningham’s are known in Maycomb as
being unfortunate. This explains that Atticus is trying to teach his daughter that she
should treat Walter like everyone else even though he is different from other people …show more content…
Henry Lafayette Dubose by ripping
up her precious flowers, although she made a repugnant remark on his father, Atticus
obligates him to spend time reading to her after school and he becomes conscious of
the fact that she is struggling with a drug addiction to morphine. By forcing him to spend
time with her, Atticus was trying to teach his son that his assumptions of her being an
irritable aged women for no specific reason are not necessarily accurate because she
suffers from this habit which causes her to act horrendously. This explains that his
father is trying to teach him that he should not treat her the way he did in view of the fact
that she was acting in a different way because he had no idea what she was going
through not to mention that if he treated her fairly, Jem’s perspective of Mrs. Dubose
would have changed. In the following scene, when Scout, Jem and Dill were harassing
Boo Radley, Atticus catches them and orders them to stop harassing him by saying:
‘’What Mr. Radley did was his own business.’’(Lee, 65). By ending their frivolous game,
Atticus was trying to teach the children that they should not be convinced by