Use Of Empathy In To Kill A Mockingbird

Lee uses experiences Jem faced and overcame in the novel to develop her theme compassion. As the oldest Jem faced more character building experiences than Scout. He could understand the meaning behind Atticus and his lessons. This resulted in Jem fully understanding compassion, but resenting it as well. “Jem, see if you can stand in Bob Ewell’s shoes a minute”(292). Jem doesn’t want to stand or think about anything related to Bob. Atticus is teaching him that compassion doesn’t come easy. In a passage with compassion, Scout and Jem experience a life changing moment. “Boo Radley. You were so busy looking at the fire you didn’t know it when he put the blanket around you”(96). This happens to Scout and Jem at the time finally realizes that Atticus was right about Boo. Boo Radley expresses his compassion towards Scout. This shows that what Atticus said about stepping into someone’s shoes works. Now Scout and Jem understand what compassion means and how it works.

There is a dominant motif in Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, regarding the symbolic importance of the mockingbird and how it relates to some of her characters. In Harper Lee’s portrayed world as well as our present day world mockingbirds represent nothing but pure innocence, thus to kill a mockingbird would be to destroy innocence. Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley are all perfect examples representing a mockingbird; innocents who have been injured or destroyed through contact with

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Atticus embodies empathy by his action, words and thoughts. Atticus uses empathy at the Tom Robinson case and African Americans and also he teaches Jem and Scout the rights and wrong about life. Tom Robinson was convicted of a crime that he never done. Mr. Ewell and Mayella accused him of raping Mayella. Tom Robinson needed a lawyer an Atticus agreed.

In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, a mockingbird is used as a metaphor to display a moral of empathy. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person by crawling into their skin to see life from their perspective. A mockingbird is symbolized as Boo Radley and Tom Robinson because they do kind acts for others to display the theme of empathy. Boo Radley is seen as a Mockingbird for all the acts he shows for Scout and Jem.

Harper Lee also represents the themes through key symbolism. The most important symbol and the one that represented innocence and goodness was the mockingbird. Tom Robinson, Boo Radley and even Atticus and Scout were the metaphoric mockingbirds in the novel. When Scout asked Miss Maudie about

When Harper Lee expresses her message of courage, she demonstrated courage through the selflessness of two characters by emphasizing their morality. Tom Robinson and Boo Radley symbolize mockingbirds in the sense that they are innocent but still courageous. Once Atticus the father and main character said “ I’d rather you shoot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want but remember It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”(Lee 119.) Mockingbirds symbolize Innocence, Lee is displaying that Tom and Boo are the mockingbirds in this novel. When Boo puts the gifts in the tree for the kids, that showed his Innocence, then when he left his house and saved the kids that showed his courage. Tom Robinson and Boo Radley, two Innocent men that no one trusts, portrays

Harper Lee shows her readers that the symbolization of a mockingbird can be seen through the characters in the story. In To Kill A Mocking Bird, the characters Tom Robinson, Atticus and Boo Radley all symbolize the mockingbird as a representation of innocence and purity in their own significant ways. Tom Robinson symbolizes a mockingbird in his innocence of not raping Mayella Ewell however being accused of doing so. He only helped her out of the kindness in his heart and once he was blamed of the rape he never got angry. Boo Radley is also symbolized as a mockingbird because he never hurts anyone and only tries to be helpful. Atticus is also like a mockingbird because he always treats people with respect but he is still being judged for helping

Many characters in To Kill a Mockingbird demonstrated empathy throughout the novel. Atticus strived to understand what other people were going through in all situations.

Empathy can be defined as making a connection to someone during a situation. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, empathy is a main part in some of the characters’ lives. Without empathy, the novel would lack many components that make the main characters, Jem and Scout, who they are.

Harper Lee is a famous writer who wrote a book called “To Kill a Mockingbird”. In this book Lee talks about symbolism, a literary device when the author uses an object to stand for an idea, she used a mockingbird which is a symbol of innocence. In her novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, Harper Lee uses Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Arthur “Boo” Radley as human “mockingbirds” to contribute to the overall theme of innocence. First, Harper Lee use Atticus as a human mockingbird because he is a nice and honest person. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in Maycomb County that's in southern Alabama also he is the best shot in the whole town, Atticus is the father of two children named Jem and Scout Finch.

Harper Lee evokes a feeling of sympathy towards her audience because the character Boo Radley was always known for having such a bad reputation, and it was hard for him to get rid of it. In the book, the character Scout sees Boo Radley out of his house for the first time, as he was locked in it for his whole life. She

It is seen as an opinion that the protagonists of the story share that to do harm to something that means you none such as a mockingbird is wrong. Atticus, Scout’s dad, tells the kids of the sin after arming them with an air rifle capable of killing birds. “Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy...but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to Kill a mockingbird (90). This quote from Miss Maudie supports Atticus’s thought that to kill something so good is wrong. This powerful concept of mockingbirds is also

“It is a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Atticus said, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs; they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us.” Harper Lee’s father had been a lawyer just like her character Atticus Finch. Also, during her childhood, Lee read’s about nine black men that were wrongly accused of raping two white females. For the first time in history, white lawyers try to prove the innocence of black men. Harper Lee’s characters Atticus Finch, Tom Robinson, and Boo Radley are symbolized as mockingbirds because they don’t do anything wrong but are still betrayed.

To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel which deals with many themes; the most dominant of these is empathy, as it is crucial in the relationships between characters as well as in their learning experiences. The way Scout finally learns how to use empathy to see things from Boo Radley’s point of view was very moving to the reader, and the reader can

The Mockingbird has a very deep and powerful meaning in Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird. It represents peacefulness, innocence and kindness which is portrayed through the characters of Boo Radley and Tom Robinson. The mockingbird's influence can also be applied to the relationships between humans. The Mockingbird is a powerful symbol that echoes a strong meaning throughout the novel.