Equality In Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a story about equality. In the setting of this book (Maycomb, Alabama) the inequality of races is completely normal to people’s everyday lives. The disrespect of African-Americans in this book is an ordinary occurrence that most people have grown up accustomed to, but there are some who don’t wish to be a part of this discrimination. One of these people being Atticus Finch, the father of Jem and Scout. Atticus uses the world around him to teach his children how to give all people respect no matter what their race or social class is. Atticus Finch is a good-hearted, moral lawyer in the discriminatory town of Maycomb Alabama. Amongst the blabbermouths and discriminatory townspeople of Maycomb, Atticus wants his children to be different from them, and to learn how to respect the dignity of everyone using the changes in their lives to teach them.
Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee develops the character of Atticus by depicting many incidents where Atticus teaches his children life lessons to teach them to respect others equally. Atticus uses the hard times and dramatic change in their lives to teach them

The first example of this is how he uses the kids’ wrongdoing to teach them how to respect people, and when the kids do something disrespectful, he directly teaches them to be better people. The other way Atticus teaches them, is indirectly using comparison. When people in Maycomb do something disrespectful or mean, Atticus will give the kids insight on things like the intentions of that person so that they can make the contrast between disrespectful people and moral, respectful people themselves. Throughout To Kill a Mockingbird, many changes are made in everyone’s lives (mostly in Maycomb) and as the kids adjust to these changes, Atticus is guiding them through it in a way that teaches them how to treat people