Norms

1) Atticus mostly seems to follow the personal norm. The personal norm is standards that we have about our own behavior. I think he follows this specific norm because he raises Scout (and Jem) differently than others would. Also, Scout is like a tomboy, and wears breeches instead of dresses. Which Aunt Alexandra is always nagging about. But when she nags, Atticus just stays calm and has his own way of handling his behavior of them. As well as when Atticus is defending Tom Robinson, a negro, many white people such as Mrs. Dubose disliked his actions and called him a "nigger lover". But again, Atticus handled this situation by his own standards of how his behavior is. By kind of just ignoring it and saying she was old and crazy. He controls his behavior well, and does not let his anger (if he has any) take over. (Like when Jem's anger took control, and made him chop the bushes.)

2) In the first part of To Kill a Mockingbird, an example of someone breaking implicit norm was when Mrs. Dubose called Atticus a "nigger lover", Jem became very angry and decided to chop off the tops of her Camellia bushes. No one ever said, " Now Jem, remember, you can't chop off the top of the neighbors bushes, ya hear?" But of course, you can't just do that and think you are going to get away with it. Everyone knows that you really can't go around doing that because you get mad. Another example of when a person breaks implicit norm is when Jem built a snowman, but it looked very similar to Mr. Avery. Again, it isn't written down saying go can't play in the snow if you make snowman that look like your neighbor. Yet, everyone just knows you should not be doing that, and it is what it is. A third example of a person breaking implicit norm is when Scout rolled into the Radly's yard, in a tire because Jem pushed her. That kind of thing does not happen frequently, so you can say why write down with all the other rules in life. Well, it just so happened now, and you still shouldn't be randomly rolling into someones yard, in a tire, it is a little weird and creepy. All three of these examples, they weren't written down or specifically said, but just because they weren't, doesn't mean you should still do them.