Understanding prejudice is not always an easy concept to grasp. As young children in a split community, Dill, Scout, and Jem learn about prejudice, injustice and the unfairness that occurs in every day life. As summer progress, the curiosity to the kids reaches an all time high as they speculate about their neighbor, Author Bradley, who they nicknamed Boo. As time progress their curiosity in Boo rises when one day while walking home from school they find a gift in the tree outside of the Bradley house. The following summer when Dill returns they begin to act out the story of Boo Bradley. Not understanding fully the ideas of prejudices Atticus, their wise loving father, encourages them to look at a person’s life from another person’s perspective before making judgments. As the storyline develops, Jem and Scout experience what prejudice is truly like. As their father chooses to defend a black man, named Tom Robinson, who is being pinned against society for supposedly raping a white women, the children experience injustice and discrimination all because of their father’s willingness to stand up for the truth.
Although, by the end of the story, all is resolved, the children learned more in those two summers then they will ever in any classroom. The children, especially Scout learns to embrace what her father has told her by practicing sympathy and understanding to others before passing judgment. The lessons she learned through the events with Boo Bradley and her father’s case with Tom Robinson are all resolved by the end of the novel and act as perfect connection between overcoming obstacles and eliminating prejudice in the world.
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