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To Kill A Mockingbird Character Analysis

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“Don’t judge a man until you’ve walked two moons in his moccasins.” This is a common Native American proverb, and also a quote from the book Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech. This is telling you to look at a situation from someone else’s point of view before making a decision. By doing this, you become inadvertently more sympathetic and compassionate towards other people. Many times in To Kill a Mockingbird, the main characters: Scout, Jem, and Atticus, look at something from another person’s shoes. On page 30, Atticus gives Scout this advice and at first she doesn’t understand it. As the book progresses, she sees the meaning of his words and becomes more sympathetic as a result. Some cases of these three characters taking this advice are the interactions between Jem and Ms. Dubose, Atticus talking to Jem about the snowman that Jem made, and at the very end when Scout walks Boo Radley back to his house after the night when Jem broke his arm. In the novel and the film, the character Ms. Dubose was an ill, as in sick, ill, as in ill-tempered, and old, as in very very old woman who lived on the street that Scout and Jem lived on. Her house was several down and across from them, but the two kids still had to pass it every time they went to school or town. The old lady would always shout out at them, berating them for what seemed like everything. They both would become very angry or possibly scared or nervous by certain things she said. Some examples include her saying that it’s

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