Lone

A wonderful, fictional character, Winnie the Pooh once said, “Being lonely is more friendly with two.” Frequently fictitious works help society examine the problems plaguing it. Just as Winnie the Pooh points out loneliness, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird makes a point out of isolation being an issue in society. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, several of the characters are faced with situations that they must conquer by themselves. How they react in these situations define how the characters are feeling. Scout, Dill, and Mayella deal with being alone, being lonely, and loneliness in their lives. The themes described in the novel can also be applied to real life situations that affect society and the surrounding world. Everyone can be alone, lonely, or have loneliness in his or her lives, which Harper Lee does a wonderful job of expressing in her novel.

Being alone can be a good or bad thing, depending on how one spends his or her time alone. When someone reacts negatively towards being alone, then they become lonely. Finally, loneliness and isolation can be described by basically the same idea. A wise individual once said, “Loneliness is when there is no one to complain to about how lonely you are,” this quote describes the idea very well.

Scout finds herself alone during parts of the novel, specifically the second summer Dill arrives in Maycomb. Dill and Jem both start excluding Scout from their games and increase the frequency in which they call her a “girl.” Scout finds herself alone more often because her social life fundamentally revolves around Jem and Dill. Although Scout discovers herself alone during most of the day, she manages to have a good summer, in which she finds a new friend in her neighbor, Miss Maudie....

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...bitually is certainly hard on your health, loneliness is worse than the other two. Her loneliness causes Mayella hardships in her daily life, such as not knowing when Atticus is being polite instead of making fun of her. Also, Mayella shows it when she pushes herself onto Tom in an effort to connect with someone. Mayella has the characteristics of someone who was a good person at one point, but she changed due to her loneliness.

Although being alone, being lonely, and loneliness are often tough situations faced in life, they make people stronger when they are faced with them. Not everyone made the best out of a bad situation in To Kill A Mockingbird; however, most did, and it made them better people because of it. The fictional world that Harper Lee created and the real world are not that different, and people should look towards the novel to help their situations.