To Kill A Mockingbird - Wrong Behaviour

Atticus repeatedly tries to get his children to understand people, to consider their feelings, to see the world from their perspective and respond to their negative actions rather than to react.

a) Select any two of the following :
i)Calpurnia
ii) Mr. Avery
iii) Boo Radley
iv) Mrs. Dubose
Then based upon the two you choose.

b) State the ‘wrong’ behaviour that Atticus saw in both of his children or either Jem or Scout.
c) State what Atticus has them do or not do in order to correct that behaviour.

1) Mr. Avery – the wrong behaviour that Atticus saw his children displaying towards him was them making a caricature snowman of. Mr. Avery, not too pleasant of a character, made a superstitious remark relating the bad weather to rudely behaving children. The snowman, which was the first the children had ever made, flaunted a large belly among other features in likeness to Mr. Avery. The resemblance to Mr. Avery was obvious. When Atticus found out that they had portrayed Mr. Avery in a negative manner Atticus immediately told them to disguise the snowman. The children obeyed and disguised the snowman with some of Ms. Maudie Atkinson’s possessions.

2) Mrs. Dubose – Mrs. Lafayette Dubose was the neighbourhood grouch and disliked by practically everyone. The wrong behavious that Atticus saw his children displaying towards her were many. First of all, neither Scout nor Jem were very kind to her (however they had reason to, for the filthy remarks she made about them). Atticus especially saw a problem in the future with her and Jem so he told Jem the just “be a gentleman”. Atticus also told both the children not to pay her much mind. Secondly, a more obvious “wrong behaviour” was displayed in Jem when he took Scout’s baton and cut the tops off of every one of Mrs. Dubose’s camellia bushes. Atticus corrected this behaviour in that, he agreed with Mrs.Dubose to make Jem read to her out loud for two hours each day, after school, for a month. This period however was extended under Atticus’ consent.