The novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird, by Harper Lee, is set in a small fictional town, Maycomb, Alabama, during the 1930s. The book is told in a childish tone, by a young girl, Jean Louise Finch, named Scout for short, whose mind is still free from the thoughts and ideas of the adult world. In the story, Scout grows and matures as she learns important life values and morals, taught to her by other critical characters within the story. Nonetheless the three main influential characters from whom Scout learns the most important lessons from are: Atticus, Dolphus Raymond, and Calpurnia. All three of the characters are alike in that each is respectably wise, has qualities from the good side of human nature, and all of them are of old age, making them well exposed to the ways of the adult world. However the characteristics and attributes of the three differ in that each teaches Scout a different lesson based upon their own accounts.
            
             To begin with the morals and values learned by Scout, we must start with Atticus, who happens to be Scouts father. Atticus can be described as a gentle, old, tired, and patient man who uses the power of words to win others over with good nature. Although Scout believes that Atticus may be too old to do take part in sport activities, she soon sees that Atticus is deadest shot in Maycomb. However when Jems says, " I reckon if he'd wanted us to know it, he'da told us. IF he was proud of it, he'da told us," (Lee 98), Scout learns the lesson that you should not take pride in your talents. Atticus was also a nice man and he made exceptions for his fellow neighbors when he did legal service for them, by excepting whatever payment possible from them. When Scout asks him about the Cunnighams, and why Mr. Cunnigham gives the Finch family a bushel of potatoes, instead of a more standard payment with money, he tells her, "You'll never really understand a person until you consider things from his poin...