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
Scout does not like all of the prejudices in the town, and world, all shows a lot of empathy for how young she is in this quote, “I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks,” (304) Atticus, Scout, and minor characters show the importance of empathy. Atticus always thinks about how people feel, scout shows empathy throughout the novel, especially at the end, and some minor characters show some empathy. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee demonstrates the importance of empathy.
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.
Situations in one’s life change change his morals and values. Jem and Scout, main characters in Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, learn new principles of life throughout an important court case their father takes on. To Kill A Mockingbird has many themes that relate to the real, modern world. Empathy, courage, morals, bettering oneself, and personal integrity each are a life lesson in the novel, and can be related to the world today.
When you stand in another's shoes it help you understand the world in a different way and allows you to help others. It also allow to feel compassion and empathy for them. The book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee has many cases where characters are forced to stand in others shoes and feel compassion for them. To stand in another shoes will help you understand them better.Atticus teaches Scout empathy through fatherly courtroom tactics. "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." The meaning of the above quote is the importance
To kill a mockingbird, a novel which teaches us many themes like empathy by always following right morals and doing what is right. Inside those life lessons the novel also teaches us something important as well. Readers can see the power of an 8 year old to defeat a mob, making them acknowledge what they are doing and “stand in the shoes of another”. We read that a total stranger who is isolated from society (Boo Radley) helps a pair of kids and ends up saving their lives. People do bad acts because of power, maybe they don’t know better or (most of the time) people choose bad because if they do what is right it is not going to benefit them. People who do right when it doesn’t benefit them often do it because of morals and having a conscience
Over the course of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, the three main characters (Scout, Jem, and Dill) learn important lessons like courage, justice, and forgiveness, from characters like Atticus, Heck Tate, and Mrs. Maudie. However, the most important lesson that the kids learn over the course of the book is that of empathy. Empathy is demonstrated as well as taught to our main characters through the trial of Tom Robinson. The conviction of Tom indirectly and directly leads both Scout and Jem to empathize with Boo Radley, as well as teach all three characters that empathy goes beyond race and class.
Before people make a decision do people think how that decision will impact the lives of others? This could change many of the choices that happen today. As an example of this in the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, which is about a little girl nicknamed Scout. Scout lives in a town called Maycomb during the 1930s, during the Great Depression.
When individuals have empathy for one another, people are able to see what another person is going through. In the novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, the characters develop over time. They learn empathy from others, use empathy to keep them from having prejudices, they mature and grow up, and the lesson of empathy allows them to understand others. In To Kill A Mockingbird, the characters are Jem, Scout, Dill, Atticus, Calpurnia, Aunt Alexandra, Tom Robinson, Mayella Ewell, Bob Ewell, and Boo Radley, formally known as Arthur, who are citizens in Maycomb. Jem and Scout started to find gifts in a tree on the Radley property walking home from school one day, and gifts usually showed up everyday after. The kids pick on Boo Radley to come out of his house
The novel To Kill a Mockingbird, written by author Harper Lee, displays numerous themes that can be connected to the world, a personal life, and more. One theme I noticed in the book was empathy. Empathy is the key to getting along with others. There are numerous examples of empathy that can be connected to the text. Scout, a main character in the story, displays empathy frequently by learning to, “walk about in someone’s skin”(Lee, 41). As Scout and her brother Jem grow up throughout the story they learn how much empathy can affect the way you view someone. An example of when Scout displays empathy in the text is in chapter two when she sees Walter Cunningham embarrassed in the classroom. Walter Cunningham is an extremely poor boy
Empathy is what us humans lack of. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Empathy is spread throughout the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. I strongly empathize with the characters Jean Louise Finch A.K.A Scout and Arthur Radley A.K.A Boo Radley, because Scout is criticized for the doing of her father while Boo is having rumors spread about him that aren't true. I can empathize with Scout because her dad and even her are getting made fun of.
Scouts Lessons in Compassion Compassion is a distinguishing quality. Associated with maturity and kindness, compassion is an emotional understanding or empathy for others that governs kind actions and citizenship. Throughout literacy, compassion resonates as a valuable lesson and skill for characters to learn because of its importance in a kind, functional society. Harper Lee uses compassion as a topic in her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The childhood experience recounted in the novel help the protagonist, Jean Louise Finch, to grow compassionate through the teaching of important life lessons about injustice, empathy, and prejudice.
To Kill a Mockingbird was written by Harper Lee and published in 1960. Its success spans almost 6 decades and almost 1 million copies are sold per year. The book addresses different life lessons including empathy. Empathy is the ability to understand the emotions of another, something which can take a lifetime to learn. In the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, author Harper Lee introduces the concept of empathy and how it can change our thoughts, in a different perspective, and feelings towards certain ideas, objects, or people.
Mayella is not a character you should have empathy for. For many reasons, but to name a few. One, she is destroying an innocent man’s life, second, she is rude to everyone, third, she tells lies.
One of the more famous lessons Scout learns is about empathy. Empathy allows you to understand one's actions, though you may not agree with them. Scouts teacher is Miss. Caroline, she is a young naive teacher from Winston County who had a lose grasp on John Dewey's philosophy. Without the knowledge one gets from living in town for years, on her first day she embarsses herself and punishes Scout for reasons unknown to her. When Scout goes home she tells Atticus what happens, Atticus tells Scout, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”(33)
How can empathy help people to be better, or to mature over the course of time? In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the book starts in Alabama during the time of the Great Depression. Atticus Finch and his children, Jem and Scout, live in Maycomb. Atticus takes a case about an African-American male, but he ends up not winning the case. Jem is frustrated and does not understand why he lost. There is a Halloween pageant and Jem is asked to take Scout to it. After the pageant is over, Scout and Jem are walking home when someone attacks them. Jem is knocked out and the person then goes for Scout but someone saves them. They later find out that the person was Boo Radley, who is a shy man. My current event is about