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To Kill A Mockingbird Empathy Quotes

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Mia Silva LL3 P. 3/8 Walk a Mile in Another Man’s Moccasins “It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird” Everything started with a man named Simon Finch, an American fur trader, that settled a successful farm on the banks of the Alabama river. Atticus, one of Simon’s sons, left for school and then came back to Maycomb to become a successful lawyer and raise Jem and Scout. The community they live in, Maycomb County, is full of prejudice and racism but also with empathy. Everyone who lives there like Atticus, Jem, Scout, Dill, Boo Radley, The two poor families, Miss Caroline, Miss Maudie, Mrs. Dubose, the list can go on, took a big part in this situation because they all either had empathy, received empathy or where the ones that had prejudice towards other people. The author gives sufficient evidence that within this community empathy can be the solution to racism and prejudice. …show more content…

Scout was judging Miss Caroline only because she didn't know anyone and she didn't know the families well because she was new to the county. If scout had put herself in the teachers shoes she might have understood that she was new and that she didn’t know many things about the families. Miss Caroline had prejudice towards Walter Cunningham because he didn’t take the money she was giving him but what she didn’t know was the they never took anything that they could not pay back and that The Cunninghams had manners even though they were poor(Scout p.26). She was also judging Burris because he was filthy and had no interest in education but she didn't know what was going

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