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Examples Of 'Blind Spots In To Kill A Mockingbird'

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Have you ever wondered, do I have blind spots? Do others have blind spots? What is a blind spot? A blind spot is when a person doesn't realize that they are missing something on a topic and sometimes end up hurting others. Everyone has blind spots. Sometimes you might think you're right about a topic, but you're not always going to be right.
Atticus thought that he was right when he said that Jem killed Bob Ewell. A major blind spot I see in Atticus is that he thinks that Jem killed Bob Ewell, but Boo Radley actually killed him. Atticus never caught onto the fact that his son Jem did not kill Bob. Atticus could have also been doing the same thing that Mr. Heck Tate was trying to do. Mr. Heck Tate was trying to protect Boo, maybe this is not one of Atticus's blind spots. Atticus could have been trying to protect Boo the same way that Mr. Heck Tate was. This shows readers that people don't know everything. You may think that one person is really smart, but no one can fully know everything. Atticus's blind spot shows the reader that he is not the smartest man, but he is still a smart man. It affects the book because Scout sees, a different side …show more content…

Gilmer, the prosecutor in the trial, also had a blind spot. He only saw Mayella's side of the story because of his racial hatred. Throughout the trial, he calls Tom the "n-word" many times. “Like I says before, it weren’t safe for any n***** to be in a-fix like that.”(265) Because of this, he had a blind spot about what happened to Mayella. He didn't see that Tom could not have done the things he was accused of. He only had one and a half arms so it would have been harder for him to hurt Mayella. Mr. Gilmer's blind spot affects Tom and all of his friends and family. If Mr. Gilmer saw that Tom did nothing wrong, then he would not have been sent to jail where he died. Mr. Gilmer’s blind spot affects the book, because it affects some of the characters like Atticus and his “team” who were on Tom Robinson's side of the

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