To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus teaches and what he teaches are the most important things. Atticus, Scout’s dad, represents what is right and wrong in our world. He is a model that Scout looks at in order to know what to do.
In “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Atticus is the one who she looks up to and whom she turns to when she doesn’t know what to do. Throughout the novel, Atticus teaches Scout many things about life. One example of a lesson that he taught Scout was, “… it’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you”(108). Atticus says this after Scout asked him about Walter Cunningham calling him a “nigger lover.” Atticus dealt with the insult by explaining to Scout that it is worse to call someone a name then to be called one. Scout was able to understand this les...