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Childhood And To Kill A Mocking Bird

Childhood is an important and vital phase in everyone’s life because that is everyone’s life because that is the stage in which one’s moral foundation and standards start to develop. The kind of upbringing a child is introduced into has a tendency of either having a positive or negative impact on that child’s life. The bible even quotes, “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it” . This explains how vital the stage of childhood is in one’s life and the training given to the child at this tender stage is what sticks to that child till the end and enables that child in building either a strong or weak foundation. Morality is our ability to learn the difference between what is right or wrong and understand how to make the right choices. As with other facets of development, morality doesn't form independently from nowhere. Children's experiences at home, the environment around them, and their physical, cognitive, emotional, and social skills influence their developing sense of right vs. wrong. If the child is introduced into a family with good parental care and discipline, the child will most likely mature into responsible adults compared to children that are born into a family with a poor moral background. The differences in these two children will be physically obvious as anyone can judge by the way they carry themselves or behave in general.
In the novel "To kill a mockingbird" by Harper Lee, the author portrays the essence of proper training being given in the childhood stage. Scout and Jem are children privileged to have a father like Atticus who already started to instill strong characters in them since they were little. Atticus tries to teach moral lessons to Jem and Scout to show them that it is possible to live without losing hope or becoming cynical but to live with a conscience. Atticus even as a widower brought up his two children with wisdom, giving them a solid moral background. Atticus took it as his...