Atticus’s statement is one that will be around for a long time, and is often used today except in different forms. Atticus said “you never know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them”. Just like in the Bible when is says not to judge by the outward appearance but by the inner appearance. If we follow this statement, we will experience life from a whole different perception. In the novel, we learn about a black man who is being accused of raping a white man’s daughter. We see how the perception of black people was that they were all corrupt no matter what they did. This is a prime example of Atticus’s statement. We all new tom was innocent, but because he was a black man going up against a white man, it was considered immoral …show more content…
All the children feared him at the beginning because they really had never seen him and were establishing their thought of him on the perception from other people. Towards the end of the book they find out that he is not a bad person and that they shouldn’t base their judgement of people in general on how other people fell about them. Calpurnia was one of those people who the children did not look down upon, but that they looked up to because, she was like the mother to them and that just because she in black doesn’t mean that she was a bad person. People would react different to a black person all because of the skin color, they would not look at the heart, but rather look at the the outward appearance inside of the inside which really counts. As we learn from all three of these characters, just because of somebody’s skin color or fellow peers consideration of the person that we should automatically loo down upon them. If we could all be like Atticus and realize that once we see the interior of the person, we often times find out that they are not as bad as they seem to be.so before we go and judge someone on others thought and our own, get to know the person because we should be like God, and look at the inner part and not the outward