The Role Of Empathy In To Kill A Mockingbird
When gazing among a crowd, the first instinct for people to do is judge each individual. Whether they are judging a person’s appearance, an action, or what they’ve heard. However, misconception blockades understanding how someone really is or what they go through. Empathy is also something that can be considered a way of walking in another’s shoes and having an idea of who they are as a person. The Story “ To Kill a Mockingbird” has provided a Character, Atticus Finch, as the father who educates his two Children, Jem and Scout, moral lessons. In the book and the play “To Kill a MockingBird” by Harper Lee, put emphasizes on the theme of putting yourself in other’s shoes or thinking as if it were from the other’s perspective.
Prevalent in the play and book, Jem Finch learned this concept of walking in another’s shoes by …show more content…
Arthur Radley had a rough past and was a delinquent in his teen years. He was in a gang that did what was considered the unspeakable: gambled, drank alcohol, vandalized, and terrorized the people of Maycomb. He was caught and sent to prison, but the place where he had stayed was moldy and had made him sick. They decided that he would be put on house arrest for the rest of his life. No one had ever seen him again after that. The people would make his story into the town talk filled with rumors. Maycomb county had depicted him to be a violent cannibal, in truth no one truly knew. “He had to stoop a little to accommodate me, but if Miss Stephanie Crawford was watching me from her upstairs window, she would see Arthur Radley escorting me down the sidewalk, as any gentleman would do.” (282). In other words, the other characters were making the accusations that Boo was some crazy and violent person, when they haven't even seen or had a conversation with him, just as Mrs Dubose and Bob
Prevalent in the play and book, Jem Finch learned this concept of walking in another’s shoes by …show more content…
Arthur Radley had a rough past and was a delinquent in his teen years. He was in a gang that did what was considered the unspeakable: gambled, drank alcohol, vandalized, and terrorized the people of Maycomb. He was caught and sent to prison, but the place where he had stayed was moldy and had made him sick. They decided that he would be put on house arrest for the rest of his life. No one had ever seen him again after that. The people would make his story into the town talk filled with rumors. Maycomb county had depicted him to be a violent cannibal, in truth no one truly knew. “He had to stoop a little to accommodate me, but if Miss Stephanie Crawford was watching me from her upstairs window, she would see Arthur Radley escorting me down the sidewalk, as any gentleman would do.” (282). In other words, the other characters were making the accusations that Boo was some crazy and violent person, when they haven't even seen or had a conversation with him, just as Mrs Dubose and Bob