Scouts actions in the story drive her personality and thinking. When she fights kids at school defending her dad, she shows her weakness in her tolerance. In the middle of the story she sneaks into the court room to watch the Tom Robinson trial, this shows that she will find a way to get what she wants. At the end of the story she meets Arthur Radley, this changes her perspective on how she looks at people. Scouts actions point to the story's…
On the other hand Scout is sometimes immature. For instance when Walter Cunningham came over for dinner Scout rudely exclaims, “ Walter poured on his vegetables and meat with a generous hand … what in the sam hill was he doing”(32). She is showing immaturity in this part of the novel,…
On Scout’s first day of school, she hits Walter Cunningham because Miss Caroline punished her for saying that the Cunningham’s don’t receive what they can’t pay back. Jem breaks them up and invites Walter to have dinner at their house and thinks that instead of fighting, Scout should treat Walter with respect.…
Scout invites Walter Cunningham over for dinner because his father is a friend of their father. Walter shows his lack of table manners by putting heaps of food onto his plate and drowning his dinner with syrup. Scout is taken by surprise by Walter’s behavior. He thinks Walter is strange and rude. When Scout questions Walter’s behavior, Calpurnia immediately requests Scout’s presence in a separate room. Calpurnia explains how Scout should not disgrace his company by calling them out on their behavior. The main message she sends to Scout is when you invite someone into your home you cannot disrespect them. Calpurnia’s lecture reveals that she is wise and understanding. She feels that no one should make other people feel negative about themselves.…
She was learning by observing her brother, father, and Dill that his trial was not equal to what it should be. Just because he was black he was being treated smaller and less important than what you should be treated in a case. Everyone should be treated equally. Scout learned compassion from this by feeling for Tom’s family. She got to see first hand that people were on his side fighting for him. “You all know of Brother Tom Robinson’s trouble. He has been a faithful member of First Purchase since he was a boy. The collection taken up today and for the next three Sundays will go to Helen-his wife, to help her out at home,” said Reverend Sykes (Lee 160) This right here is an example of Scout observing the compassion given by the church that Tom belongs too. They are spending the money they have to go toward the Robinson family helping with lawyers and whatever other problems they are dealing with in their current situation. “Alec, shut the doors. Nobody leaves here till we have ten dollars,” said Reverend Sykes (Lee 162) This is the part where people donated money, but not enough. They wanted to reach a goal of ten dollars to give to the family that day. This shows the compassion in really wanting to push forward and help this family. It shows Scout what people will do to help…
Scout is a naive and idealistic girl who has little experiences with the social injustices in her world prior to her confrontation with the “evils”; She is quick to judge anything that she considers different. For instance, when Walter Cunningham joins the Finchs for lunch, Scout criticizes Walter for “drown his dinner in syrup” (32) simply because this is not the way she eats. Scout leaves her “ordinary world” when she met Dill; Dill provoke Scout’s curiosity in the person that she fears the most, an enigmatic neighbor named Boo Radley, and persuade her to engage in a series of adventures in the Radley Place. If the famous Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud were to analyze Scout, he might argue that Scout’s immaturity is evidenced when Scout lets her Id overpower her ego (considering the reality before making choices) and superego (considering adult’s opinion and the social standard before making choices) (Saul McLeod “Id Ego Superego”). Although Scout really wants to be a part of Jem and Dill’s friend group, she vacillates when Jem and Dill invite her to sneak into the Radley’s backyard because her ego tells her that it is dangerous and her superego warns her that Atticus disapprove such action. However, when Jem says, “I declare to the Lord you’re gettin’ more like a girl every day!” (Lee 69), Scout…
Hello, I’m SuYeon Kim, and my presentation part is empathy, which is on pages 164 to 166. Before I go into empathy, I will explain the relationship between language and society. The human beings are social animals, and language is the crucial means of forming the bonds of society. We all live in a process of reaching out from ourselves to others, which is called transaction, and the main tool of achieving this process is language. There are many transactional variables such as imitation, empathy, extroversion and so on, and among them, I am going to cover empathy more specifically.…
According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, empathy is defined as, the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner. In accordance with empathy, empathetic listening is defined by a way of listening and responding to another person that improves mutual understanding and trust. It is absolutely essential for the listener to receive and accurately interpret the speaker’s message, and then provide an appropriate response. According to Salem (2003), “There are a few key benefits to empathetic listening which include the ability to build trust and respect amongst one another, enabling the person to release their emotions, reduce stress within one another, encourage the surfacing of information that would otherwise be ignored, and last but not least the ability to create a safe environment that is conductive to collaborative problem solving.”…
We all have a point in life where we go through many stages of growing up and realizing that all things don’t come easy, and sometimes even though you know it’s the right thing it still doesn’t happen to be what you thought. In the book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, the young girl scout experiences this throughout the whole book and learns that innocent people are sometimes destroyed by evil. She is just a young girl finally noticing the real world, and how you don’t know anything until you’re in it’s place realizing it yourself, just like being “In another man’s shoes and walking around in them.” In this essay I will be explaining the elements of the story, Setting, Flashback, and Diction.…
Empathy is an ability to feel what they are feeling, but the accomplishment of empathy goes deep-seated than just this. Since empathy involves understanding the emotional condition of other people, the way it is characterized is original of the way emotions themselves are patented. Emotions are taken to be fundamental to acknowledging feelings, and then grasping the feelings of another will be fundamental to empathy. On the other hand, if empathy is depicted by both beliefs and desires, then grasping these beliefs and desires will be more important to empathy. Empathy has many different definitions, from caring for other people and having a desire to help them, to experiencing emotions that reflects another person 's emotions, to knowing what the other person is thinking or feeling, to hiding the line between you and another. Empathy can be used as a communication skill. Empathy can allow the conversation of two people emotions and is the reciprocal understanding of the two people that are conversing. A lack of empathy involves a poor sense of communication that lets down the understanding and the perspective of the two people that are conversing. Understanding what someone else is feeling because you have experienced it yourself or can put yourself in their shoes.…
Cognitive empathy plays a critical role in the medical field because it significantly influences a health care provider’s clinical decision regarding patients. “Sir, you are not experiencing my pain; you do not know how I am feeling right now.” That was one of the most shocking sentences that I had ever heard from one of my CVS customers when I started working as a pharmacy technician two years ago. That incident always reminds me of the moment I realized I would never understand someone else’s feelings until I “walk in their shoes,” which is similar to cognitive empathy. Cognitive empathy is one of the most important emotions that connects individuals who share similar perspectives in particular situations. All parties-including the patient,…
Today, people are busier than ever, as many regularly overwork and forget to care for others. I am sure you and I have lots to worry about, whether we are working, raising children or buying groceries. The problem with society is that many are self-centered. We neglect being empathetic by focusing only on our lives and not the feelings and needs of others. Empathy is defined as the psychological identification with the thoughts, feelings and attitudes of others. It is imperative that we recognize how empathy plays a role in maintaining friendly relationships.…
When I was small and got into conflicts with someone at school my mother used to say: "put yourself in the other person's shoes." She gave a lot of good advice. Those days I did not understand that what she was telling me to do was called empathy. Nowadays we call this idea empathy, but it's the same thing.…
“….climb into their skin and walk around in it.” (pg 31). During the novel Jem develops a…
In “A Jury Of Her Peers” the women convey empathy to Minnie. This effects the audience because “The story presents both viewpoints, the readers take perspective of the women and are convinced” that “ empathy is a necessary component of the pursuit of Justice” (Mary M. Bendel-Simso). Glaspell emphasizes the…