As American anthropologist Ashley Montague puts it, "In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message." In the story To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, three children named Jem, Scout, and Dill learns very important things that will lead to growing up in way that they wouldn't experience at school. Through the many events happening to each of them during the Tom Robinson trial and the gossips around Boo Radley, they each gains separate insights to the society in the small town of Maycomb. Because Jem, Scout and Dill are at different stages in their lives, they each learn and grow at different rates and from different experiences.

Jem learns the truth about Boo Radley when he realizes Boo had put the blanket around Scout, while Scout has no idea what's going on...