To Kill A Mockingbird Empathy Character Analysis

Throughout to kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee communicates on numerous occasions the importance of compassion, as taught to jem and scout through the book, empathy is one of the most critical traits in a respectable human being. In the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, poverty is a common disease. Though poor, Scouts family is better off than most of the people in Maycomb. That includes the likes of walter cunningham, a son of a farming family that was hit hard by the depression. Scout learns her first lessons of empathy when “Walter [pours] syrup on his vegetables and meat with a generous hand,” and scout says “what the sam hill [are you] doing,” (32). Calpurnia then requests her presence in the kitchen and says “‘don’t you let me catch