Jean Louise, before arriving to this conclusion, tries to deny what she had seen earlier. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings… You were an emotional cripple… assuming your answers would always be his answers.” (page 265) In the words of her uncle Jack: “…you confused your father with God. This piece primarily focuses on the internal and personal changes of Jean Louise, such as detaching her conscience from her fathers and allowing herself to become her own person and see Atticus as a man, instead of a “tin god”. The clear theme of this selection is that change is inevitable, and it must be dealt with accordingly. Down, Jean Louise must come to understand that people are flawed, and every man must create his own watchman.
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