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Boo Radley's Shoes In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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One of the themes in To Kill A Mockingbird is walking in someone’s shoes. One example is Scout walking in Boo Radley’s shoes. Scout used to be afraid of Boo, she would always run past his house no matter the time of day. That is until one day when Jem, Scout, and Dill are playing in their yard. Jem gets agitated with Scout always playing with him and Dill so, he pushes her through the yard in a tire. She lands near the Radley porch and hears a laugh. At this point in time, Scout becomes even more interested in Boo and strongly believes that he is alive. Another example is at the end of the book when she walks him home on Halloween night. Scout stands on the Radley porch and looks out at the neighborhood, finally seeing everything from Arthur’s …show more content…

An example of this is when she goes to her first day of school and the teacher is unaware of who Walter Cunningham is. Miss Caroline offers him a lunch and Scout bluntly calls him out on accepting it. Scout tells Miss Caroline about Walter and how he cannot pay her back, his family never can. Scout starts a fight with him outside and gets caught by Jem. He tells her that she is the bigger person and there is no need for the roughhouse. Jem invites Walter over for lunch. Back at the Finch house, Walter is “ eating funny “ in Scout’s perspective. Calpurnia pulls her aside and lectures her about walking in his shoes, explaining to her that he does not have as much as she does. Also that, she shall never judge someone by the way they eat. Furthermore, Atticus walks in Tom’s shoes when he takes his case. Atticus puts aside all the negativity that Maycomb is giving him during this time and stays on his side. In the courtroom, Atticus defends Tom and tries to get the rest of the population to do the same. He gives proof of how Tom is not guilty and says how he is the same as any other man in this town. Atticus also walks in Mrs. Dubose’s shoes. He states, “ she is the bravest woman I have ever met

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Have you ever had to walk in someone else’s shoes to understand their point of view? All of us have at least tried at one point in our life before. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird written by Harper Lee, she goes over this subject with multiple examples. Harper Lee uses fictional characters to teach life lessons in an early setting.

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Scout repeatedly employs Atticus’ knowledge of walking around in someone else’s skin when faced with a problem that only empathy could fix. For example, Scout applies that idea to Jem when saying, “As Atticus once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem’s skin and walked around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning... So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him” (62). After Jem lost his pants under the fence at the Radley's house and had to go retrieve them, Scout uses her newfound empathy to try and understand why Jem was pensive and moody after this event. She decides to leave him alone after ‘climbing into his skin.’

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