The evidence of Harper Lee’s morality can be shown throughout the text using character. I can explain this because the main protagonist Scout is used as a vessel in which Harper explains her moral beliefs and thoughts on racism in the southern part of the United States. She does this because anything said from a child is acceptable as they have much to learn and they are young and naive meaning that anything said will be taken lightly. However if Harper lee was to express her views with the world directly then there would have been an uproar because of her being a fully grown adult. Many of the characters in the book are likely to have been influenced by the author’s childhood as she sees Scout as a younger version of herself. “Well how do you know we ain’t Negroes?” This is one of the many questions that Scout asks Atticus who is her biological father and helps her out throughout the book. For someone studying the 1930’s or Racial Segregation in Southern America then this would be a good source for understanding what it most probably would of been like, because the author actually watched her friends experience such negativity as she grew up, and she would therefore be able to capture the events from their perspective as well as her own. Children are not born Racist and are actually born happy and this means that children are only introduced into hate and misfortune by their parents. How Jem and Scout view the world is a reflection on how they were brought up by Atticus.
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