ow Does Having Empathy Keep Us From Having Prejudices? “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb around in his skin and walk around in it.” This quote shows that one should not judge another person, until one considers what they are going through in life. This quote is said by Atticus Finch in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Jean Louise “Scout” Finch and her older brother Jem, live in the small, sleepy town of Maycomb, Alabama. During school she befriends Walter Cunningham, a poor child who the town considers dirty. When Walter goes over to Scout’s house, he pours syrup all over the supper that the Finch’s prepared for him. Consequently, Scout makes rude remarks criticizing Walter. …show more content…Scout realizes that he doesn’t come out of his house because of past family event that happened to him. For instance, “One time he said you never really understand a person until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough” (Lee 279). This quote relates to Scout having empathy for others instead of prejudice for others. Therefore, she sees everything from Boo’s point of view and sees why he doesn’t come out of the house. When she was little, the children would make up games that they thought were about his life. They did not know it, but they were having prejudice toward Boo. Now that she realizes what is going on, she has empathy for Boo, and no longer has any prejudices. She is growing up and realizing her thoughts against him were wrong. A critic of To Kill a Mockingbird says that “This can also be seen with Boo helping at the end of the novel, it shows he is a caring person. Especially when he touches Jem’s forehead. It shows that deep down he is a caring person by giving Jem a slight touch of his hand. When the children realize he is caring, the prejudice towards him goes away and they notice that he is …show more content… However, Atticus believes that it is wrong and has empathy, therefore having no prejudices. An example is, “There’s nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who’ll take advantage of a Negro’s ignorance... that white man is trash” (Lee 221). This matters because Atticus shows that he does not have prejudices towards Tom, unlike the other white folks of the community. He has empathy for Tom because he knows the rumors and stories that people say about him are false and made-up gossip. Atticus does not have prejudice because he sees the best in people. In the criticism entitled Being Atticus Finch, it says that Atticus uses “It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyways and you see it through no matter what” He knew that when he was appointed to be Tom’s lawyer it was going to be nearly impossible, but he did it anyway. It shows that he did not have any prejudice for defending him and also has courage to be involved in such a large controversy (Being Atticus Finch). This shows that by having empathy for Tom, he is able to defend him easier without worrying about what other people will say about him. He has courage to not care about the prejudice that people will make towards him for defending a black man. Another example is when Atticus teaches Scout and Jem to have good character, such as having empathy for others. Therefore, he “practices what he preaches” and does the same towards
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father’s right," she said. "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
Atticus, he was real nice.""Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.
It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.
Pass the damn ham, please.
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.
If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.
You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.
We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.
Things are always better in the morning.
There are just some kind of men - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.
It's not time to worry yet
Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.
They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe- some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others- some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of men.But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is a court.
As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
Things are never as bad as they seem.
Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
Hey Boo.
Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
Atticus sat looking at the floor for a long time. Finally he raised his head. Scout, he said, Mr. Ewell fell on his knife. Can you possibly understand?Atticus looked like he needed cheering up. I ran to him and hugged him and kissed him with all my might. Yes sir, I understand, I reassured him. Mr. Tate was right.Atticus disengaged himself and looked at me. What do you mean?Well, it’d be sort of like shootin’ a mockingbird, wouldn’t it?Atticus put his face in my hair and rubbed it. When he got up and walked across the porch into the shadows, his youthful step had returned. Before he went inside the house, he stopped in front of Boo Radley. Thank you for my children, Arthur. he said.
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. |
Who said Atticus was right one time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them just standing on the Radley porch was?
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