Harper Lee's award-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird may seem like a simple story about childhood and life in a south Alabama town, but it is not really a complex novel that deals with themes of education, moral courage and tolerance. Through the eyes of Scout Finch, the narrator, Harper Lee teaches the reader the importance of moral education, courage and courage, and prejudice against tolerance. The first theme that Harper Lee shows in her novel is education. At the beginning of the novel, Scout accompanies her brother Jem to school. She had looked forward to going to school since she was very little. Her first day is a disappointment when Jem tells Scout they can't play together at recess and when Scout gets in trouble for lecturing her teacher on another student, Walter Cunningham. Walter Cunningham belongs to a family that does not accept other people's money for its own benefit. Scout's worst disappointment is when her teacher, Miss Caroline, tells Scout that Atticus taught her to read the wrong way. Instead of rewarding Scout for her intelligence, she is forced to feel ashamed. Scout tells her father that she won't go back to school, but he compromises with her and tells her that if she goes to school, they will continue to read like they always have. The good education Scout receives from Atticus is unlike anything she will ever learn in school. In addition to the theme of education, Lee explores the idea of ​​courage and courage. Scout, Jem and their friend Dill tend to define courage by the risks people are willing to take and accepting a challenge is the truest test of one's courage. Jem accepts the challenge of touching Arthur "Boo" Radley's dangerous front door. Jem also sees... half the paper... doesn't he?'" (Lee 276). He understands that, like a mockingbird, Boo Radley hasn't hurt anyone and doesn't deserve the town's unfair attention on the her sanity. The other very important lesson that Atticus teaches Scout is empathy. After Scout gets in trouble for teasing Walter Cunningham for spilling syrup on her food, Atticus tells her that it will go a long way. agree. life if she learns to put herself in other people's shoes. This is a lesson that Scout takes a while to learn, but by the end of the novel it is clear that Scout learns empathy a true classic because it teaches empathy. Reader on topics that are relevant even today: the importance of education, courage and the need to show tolerance towards others. These are the life lessons that Scout learns as a child and those that we readers we learn by reading the novel.