To Kill a Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird

  • Submitted By: itismonicaa
  • Date Submitted: 03/11/2009 8:03 PM
  • Category: English
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In Chapter 3, page 30 Atticus tells Scout ,”If you 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.” This piece of information helps scout threw out her life. It gets her threw times when she in confused and does not understand a persons view on why they are doing something. It took her sometime to fully understand what Atticus meant, but she eventually understood it. When she did , she used that advice as much as she could.
The advice Atticus gave, to climb into ones skin and walk around in It, means to put yourself in that persons perspective on their own life. And see how they are treated so that you can fully understand them. So you can see what they go threw and what emotions it may cause them to show. How what they go threw may effect their personality. Everybody is different may it be their ethnicity,race,heritage,skin color,gender, or religion. It can be anything, everyone is different and has different views that may be impacted by their cultures or even the generation they grew up in. Just because they are different does not mean you should pass judgment on them. It is not right, Everyone in Atticus' eyes are equal and he would like for his children to see the same.
On page 30 Scout uses Atticus' advice and walks around in Miss. Caroline's shoes. Miss. Caroline had nonchalantly bossed around the children of Maycomb and disrespected them with out even realizing it. At first Scout was furious about this, but after Atticus gives her the advice to climb into her skin Scout understands Mrs. Caroline at a better aspect. Scout sees how that days mishaps were just an honest mistake on Mrs. Caroline's behalf. On page 30 Scout said, “she had learned not to hand something to a Cuningham, for one thing, but if Walter and I had put ourselves In her shoes we'd have seen it was an honest...

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