Extending the Theme

When I was reading this novel, there didn't seem to have anything that stood out to me. That's because my childhood was completely different from Scout's childhood. I just had regular parents who just stood there and let me do what I wanted to do. Although my parents opened a restaurant when we were still in China, I was only at kindergarten which during the time I didn't understood any philosophy. I wish I had parents like Atticus, who's wise and guides his children to the right road in the future. But, I am content with the parents I have now, because even though they don't give me guides, when I go the wrong path they will tell me. I remember my mother told my things about how I should act because when I was little, I was more outgoing and now she thinks that I changed a lot by the way I act. In "To Kill a Mockingbird" , the novel shows me that not all people aren't what you expected them to be. Also, that some people can be evil to no ends or kind and big-hearted to no ends. But I find that in this whole world there are many that are in the middle of the scale of good or evil. There are rarely anyone who is really evil or really big-hearted. We human beings aren't perfect so we have different sides to our beings. Maybe somewhere out there is our other half where we learn things that are completely opposite from ourselves.

Another thing would probably be a way a person is easily angered. In the novel, Jem and Scout gets angry at each other and make up. Where as I get angry at my brothers for being annoying but later or sooner we make up. Although the way that Jem and Scout gets mad of each other is different than the way I get mad at my younger brothers, we still get mad easily when one of us does something that is annoying to the other person. One thing, when we were little I didn't like to play with my younger brothers because they kept me behind when I was doing something and I never get the thing I wanted to get done.

I feel that the family/friendship that Atticus and his children have is very special. Mainly because they don't hide things from each other and they treat each other like equal beings. In my family, when the adults are talking about things that are deeper in thought than how we kids think, they would say that we are short-minded. I think that the adults should tell us the same thing, just because we aren't as old as them, we still have the right to know the same things. If we didn't know the things that should be known how do they expect us to grow up? Atticus tells Jem and Scout things that happen in his life and shares philosophy with his children. I hoped that my parents would do the same. But I feel that I don't learn much philosophy from my parents.