To Kill a Mockingbird In our complicated world we have many major themes like love, hatred, prejudice kindness etc. Harper Lee in her in her novel To Kill A Mockingbird shows how compassion pays a role in life. Many themes and ideas are presented in this novel, the compassion theme is one of the main ones. Compassion, in the novel is very important because it is what makes the people in the town to help …showed first 75 words of 789 total…

…showed last 75 words of 789 total…the neighbors, the code of honor of some adults, the dishonor and odd behavior of others-everything is new to Scout. She is childhood personified, as she perceives the world, learning its way with fresh intelligence. Scout is easily influenced but the town's prejudice and in the end wins and becomes an individual. If we can understand the novel and its themes we may become individuals like Scout and change the society in which we live.