What lessons did Scout learn in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird?

s novel
is told from the first person point-of-view of the character . It is often
mistakenly said that the story is told from her perspective as a six-year-old, but it is
actually told from her perspective as an adult looking back on events that occurred when she was
six-years-old. This double perspective allows the narrator to reflect on the many important
life-lessons she learned as the events of the novel unfolded.

One of the most
important of those lessons came when a particularly vicious old neighbor named Mrs. Dubose
infuriated Scouts brotherby saying, Your fathers no better than the niggers and trash he works
for! This prompted Jem to destroy Mrs. Duboses flowers, which brought forth a very creative
punishment.

Jem and Scout were both sentenced to read to Mrs. Dubose every
afternoon for a month. At the time they were unaware that Mrs. Dubose was fighting a morphine
addiction. As the month passed, they noticed that she...