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The parenting styles of the 1 ass’s are very different then the styles now, especially that of Tactics Finch, who raises his children in a very distinct and thought out way. “You never really understand a person until you consider things from their point of view… Until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. ” This quote, spoken by Tactics, is explaining to Scout why she must return to school and not be so hard on Miss Caroline for the honest mistakes she made that first day of class. Like so many passages in the book. His one represents the rollover and attitude that Tactics approaches his daily and professional elite with. He attests that it is necessary to consider how others exist in this community in order to understand why they do the things they do. In this sense, we see Scout’s reaction to Miss Caroline, a relative newcomer to their community, and Attic’s response is to remind her to see the other person’s side of things, even when that person may be ignorant of the unspoken social codes of their community, some of which Scout is just beginning to learn. He is trying to help
Scout understand that she must accept and be tolerant of those around her vivo are different than herself. Unlike Tactics, most modern day parents would begin to approach the situation nonchalantly and brush it off (World Book Online- sass Parents). They would not have given the situation another thought. However, that is the society we live in where children are seen as people Who complain a lot. Nowadays, when a child gets in trouble they are either whipped by their parents or a treasured possession is taken away (World Book Online – Family and Consumer Sciences).
Those are the common practices for punishment for modern day parents however those practices are not usually effective. Yes, the child punished may seem like they are “sorry’ or that they regret their wrong doings, they never fully learn. On the other hand, Tactics approached his children like they were adults and, therefore, on an equal playing field with him. Referring back to the quote spoken by Tactics earlier in the paragraph, during that conversation he gave he reasoned with her just like he did with any adult, and she came to the conclusion that Miss Caroline had made a honest mistake.
She realized that her rant about how Miss Caroline should have Novak about the children, and the families in the community, was completely unnecessary and wrong. Tactics Finch taught his children in a well thought out and distinct manor. Since, Tactics Finch lived in the sass’s, in the novel ‘To Kill A Mockingbird”, it would be safe to assume that he had the same parenting styles and practices as other parental figures in the 1 ass’s. Actually, that statement is false. Tactics taught Scout and Gem many life lessons.
One of the most important lessons was equality. Back in the sass there was a lot of racism, mainly pertaining to the south. Tactics was on Of the few people in Macomb county that was not racist. Tactics did not want his children to be like the rest of Macomb. ‘You know What’s going to happen as well as do, Jack, and I hope and pray that I can get Gem and Scout through it without bitterness, and most of all, without catching into Macomb’s usual disease. ” Tactics explains to his children in the following quote that the racism problems are wrong. As you grow older you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and onto you forget it- whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash,” Although, Tactics was an exemplary father his ideas of how his children were going to be raised and what they were going to be taught about racism was entirely different than other parents in the 19305. A typical white parent in the sass would teach their children that all men are not created equal.
They would have their children believe that a white man is superior to a black man in every way. They would say that a white man is a kinder, more honest gentleman than a black man could ever become, Take Bob Lowell as an example, In the novel, Bob Lowell is about as racist as they come. He had his daughter accuse an innocent black man, Tom Robinson, of rape and assault. Mr.. Lowell taught his daughter in those many days that it was okay to falsely accuse someone because they are of African-American decent. Attic’s view on this was entirely different.
He used his influential power over his children to make them understand what is right and what is wrong. Tactics Would have had his children tell the truth instead of accusing an innocent man. If the case of the alleged rape had actually occurred, many Of the parental figures would have sided With Bob Lowell, because they would have felt sympathetic towards him. It is because of the conflict in opinion on racism and What their children should be taught about equality that separates Tactics Finch from the rest of the people during the sass’s. Tactics Finch’s parenting comes to show what an exemplary father he is.