Essay On Miss Maudie's Shoes In To Kill A Mockingbird

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“Atticus, he was real nice…most people are, Scout, when you finally see them”(Lee 281). To understand a persons reasoning, people have to see the world from his or her point of view. No one should make judgments about someone they don’t know because you don’t know what they have been through or who they are as a person. No one fully understands anybody until you walk in their shoes. “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee is set in a southern American town called Maycomb in the 1930s, during the depression. The book is based on a girl named Scout and her brother Jem who grow up in not only a time of racism, but an extremely racist town as well. The towns characters include Dill Harris, Calpurnia, Arthur “Boo” Radely, Miss Maudie…show more content…
She says that they where like his children in a way. At the beginning of the novel, Scout and Jem don’t stand in Boo’s shoes, automatically believing the gossip surrounding the Radley’s place, little did they know that he was on their side the whole time, and was even standing in their shoes. Scout and Jem both learned that most people like Boo Radely and Mrs. Dubose are really nice People, they just have to walk in their shoes and look at things from their point of view to really understand them. A lot of the events that took place throughout the book wouldn’t of happened if everyone would have thought about standing in the other persons shoes. Trying to see things in someone elses eyes is hard to do and often people don’t even think twice about doing it. The world is full of many different people some of which are much different than others, but they don’t deserve judgment. Scout and Jem both learned at a young age to show human compassion towards other people, something that not many people do. They learn from their father on how to step back and see things differently then others. Judgment wouldn’t occur as often if you

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