Put Yourself In Someone's Shoes In To Kill A Mockingbird

Only a few people in Maycomb notice how hard Mayella works and feel sympathy for her, including Tom Robinson. While giving his testimony, Tom says, “Looked like she didn’t have nobody to help her...I felt right sorry for her, she seemed to try more than the rest of ‘em” (Lee 264). Explanation. When her mother died, Mayella had to turn her whole life around. Despite the fact that she is only nineteen years old, Mayella cannot go to school, and she has no real friends. Scout narrates Mayella’s background story, saying, “there was a lady who came around sometimes and asked Mayella why she didn’t stay in school- she wrote down the answer: with two members of the family reading and writing , there was no need for the rest of them to learn- Papa needed them at home” (Lee 245). Explanation. There is one more factor in Mayella’s life that causes her to deserve the compassion of

Standing in a person’s shoes is one of the first things Atticus explains to Scout in the novel, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view…until you climb in his skin and walk around in it.” This is said in chapter three. Atticus is explaining how the things that went wrong on her first day of school (Miss Caroline finding Scout impertinent for correcting her, speaking bluntly about the pupils and being able to read, as well as the episode with Walter Cunningham) could have been avoided or at least made better.

When they hear the rumors about Boo Radley they believe that he dines on “raw squirrels and any cats he could catch” and that he looks like a monster because he has, “a long jagged scar” and rotten teeth (Lee 16). The kids, having never seen him before, had many blind spots. If they had walked in his shoes and understood him they would of understood why he was always in his house and how he was not a monster. However as the story goes on they start to understand why he might be that way, Miss. Maudie tells Scout that Boo’s dad was a “foot-washing Baptist” and that “anything that’s a pleasure is a sin” (Lee 59). This helps Scout become more compassionate towards Boo and she starts to walk in his shoes. Jem also saw Mrs. Dubose as a monster. Mrs. Dubose was very mean and she was “nasty. She has fits or somethin” (Lee 143). Jem did not realize that Mrs Dubose, a morphine addict was trying to break her addiction before she died. Another blind spot Scout had was towards her teacher, Miss Caroline. Scout gave her a hard time because she did not like her, but like Atticus points out, “it was a honest mistake” and that Scout should not “hold her responsible when she knew no better” (Lee 40). In all three instances when the kids had blind spots, walking in the other person's shoes would of helped them be more

An occurrence presented various times in this novel is a person facing rough, unknown troubles at home despite their wrongful actions. For example, Mrs. Dubose spoke ill of most people in the town, regardless of their actions towards her, while bravely fighting a morphine addiction. Atticus says this when telling the children about Mrs. Dubose’s death: “I wanted you to see something about her, I wanted you to see what real courage is; / It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.” Atticus is defending Mrs. Dubose’s misery to Jem and Scout. He does this to explain that she was given the chance to indulge in morphine and die a quick death, but she chose not too. Fighting addiction can be long and painful yet Mrs. Dubose chose to fight her morphine addiction. Her retaliation against her addiction is to be admired. Another person that demonstrates wrongful actions in addition to their hardships at home is Mayella Ewell. Mayella’s home life led her to

In Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird Scout is an example of a character whose coming-of-age process involves gaining a different perspective. In To Kill a Mockingbird Scout states to herself “Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough” (Lee 374). At the beginning of To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus teaches Jem and Scout about stepping in others shoes. Scout does not fully understand what Atticus had meant when he said that until the very end of To Kill a Mockingbird. When she stands on Boo Radley’s front porch and sees everything from the view of the window that Boo has been looking out of throughout the entire novel she finally realizes what Atticus had meant all of those years. She then finally fully understands what it means to truly stand in someone else's shoes. After she has this realization she feels much older and wiser because she has gained a new perspective that most of Maycomb County has not acquired. She has gained the perspective of understanding, and having the ability to see things through others perspectives. A large part of Scout’s coming-of-age process occurs when she sees things from Boo’s perspective. Another moment of that shows Scout coming-of-age happens

Throughout this book, Atticus tells Scout and Jem that they should walk around in other people’s shoes for a bit, and maybe they can understand that person a little better. “‘First of all,’ he said, ‘if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it’” (85-87). Atticus says this to Scout after Scout

In conclusion, To Kill A Mockingbird has many examples of how characters show empathy to other characters. In this novel, one of the main themes or lessons Lee tries to teach the reader is empathy for others. To judge a person, you must walk in his “shoes” or “skin”. Throughout the novel, Atticus, Jem and Scout Finch mature and start showing empathy more and more and to more and more people. If it weren’t for empathy, no one would have defended Tom Robinson. A wise person told me many of our lawyers today as kids they decided to be lawyers because of Atticus Finch’s heroic

Looking into other people’s perspective is one skill the is needed throughout life. Harper Lee multiple view form other characters that open a realm in To Kill a Mockingbird. When Jem and Scout visit Calpurnia's church, they see in Cal's aspect for the first time. Her church was really poor and was not in a good society. Mr. Cunningham walks into Atticus' shoes, when Jem, Scout, and Dill make him realize that Tom Robinson should get a trial. Atticus walks into Mr. Ewell's shoes when he spits in Atticus' face, because he embarrassed Mr. Ewell at the trial. In the end when all the character look into other people's perspective, they see a whole new side.

To start, I will predict how some characters walked in someone else’s shoes. One character that puts himself in other people shoes is Atticus. He never tries to judge a person until he really knows them. An example from the book is when he took Tom’s case. During

To Kill A Mockingbird essay “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” Atticus to Scout. You can’t judge a person until you look at things from his point of view, until you experience their life their way. This is one of the themes in the novel To Kill A Mockingbird.

When Atticus asks Mayella ‘who are your friends?’ (p.245) she is perplexed by the question demonstrating to us how she must be ‘the loneliest person in the world’ (p. 256). Furthermore, Lee clearly explains to us she is accustomed to being treated poorly as when Atticus refers to her as ‘ma’am’ and speaks to her politely she believes initially that he is ‘mockin’ me’ (p.243). Reflecting on how Mayella is trapped in her improvised, friendless state with nobody who respects her, we realise it would not have been difficult for her to become fixated on and fantasise about Tom Robinson, as he ‘was probably the only person who was ever decent to her’ (p.257). We are also able to understand why she lies about Tom raping her during the trial when we take into consideration that Mayella is living in fear of what her drunk and abusive father, Bob Ewell, would do to her if she was truthful. As she has already been ‘beaten savagely’ (p.272) and possibly raped by her father, after she ‘kissed a black man’ (p.272), her trepidation is unsurprising. By climbing into Mayella’s skin and walking around in it we see Lee is helping us to learn the importance of considering people’s circumstances before judging their actions.

After making fun of her teacher and being racist towards African Americans, Scout learns a tough lesson from her father. He takes her to the porch and sits her down, and shares his firm lesson with his daughter. "You never really understand a person until you really consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his shoes" (Lee 39). Atticus, quite plainly, stresses how important it is to not judge one on their appearance or on their position within the social classes. This makes Scout think more before she acts, and it puts their actions into perspective. A small town’s gossip and the power of assumption can change someone’s life in an awful way in some scenarios. One character in example, is Boo Radley. Everyone assumes he

Tom is defended by Atticus no matter the trouble or cost Atticus has to take, whether it be putting his children or himself in trouble. Atticus believes every man is equal in the courtroom including the people who do wrong including Mayella and Mayella’s

“You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them”, said Atticus. It is important to not judged someone without being in their shoes and seeing their experiences. There are three characters for example such as Boo Radley, Tom Robinson, and

I am reading the book, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The recent chapters we have been reading focus on how to walk in someone else’s shoes. In chapter 10, 11, and 12 mostly talks about how Aunt Alexandra comes and lives with them for a while and how Jem is maturing more. In chapters 13, 14, and 15 shows that Atticus goes to the jail cell where Tom Robinson is and so Jem, Dill, and Scout sneak out and go looking for him. They see that a mob of men are coming towards Atticus and Tim, so Scout runs to him and makes an end to the situation. Who knew a young child could protect a man from other men. Some personalities that Atticus shows is knowledgeable and responsible.