To Kill A Mockingbird Critical Lens Essay

Ryleigh McNeil Mrs. Rockwell English 9 Honors 12 April 2024 Life Can Be Seen In Other Eyes Living and surviving in a world where people can have many different interpretations of their friends, family, and acquaintances surrounding them, some of these perspectives can impair with what one thinks. This forces one’s opinions of people to be set into categories based on how they perceive other humans in the world. Harper Lee expresses the idea that people in Maycomb, specifically Jem, Scout, Atticus, and Miss. Maudie, has different impressions of their surrounding humans, in her Pulitzer Prize winning realistic fiction novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee does this so that the reader can see Maycomb from at least four different perspectives. The …show more content…
One way that Jem sees the world is the view that even though one is poor, he or she is still kind hearted and wants to take anything that they cannot repay. The Cunningham family is the example Jem uses to get his point across. Jem states, “‘Well then, how do you explain why the Cunninghams are different? Mr. Walter can hardly sign his name, I've seen him. We've just been reading and writing longer than they have’” (Lee 259). Jem is demonstrating how the Cunningham family can not go to school like the other children because of the fact that they are poor. The children have to stay home and take care of the younger ones while their parents can try and make money at work. Jem shows that they didn't get the chance to learn how to read and write because of poverty. Another way that Jem perceives the world is that one is poor and still doesn't care about other people and one cares only for themselves. They do what they want; anything that will benefit them in any way. Jem says,“Maycombs Ewells lived behind the town’s garbage dump in what was once a Negro cabin”

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