Examples Of Empathy In To Kill A Mockingbird

Using Empathy in Everyday Life
In Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird”, two children and their father (a lawyer) in a small town defending an innocent black man in court. The narrator's perspective of the town and the people has changes throughout the story by experiences she had. People will understand how you feel after something has happened in your life once it happens in theirs. The kids go to Mrs. Dubose’s house when their dad tells them to go read to her. The kids perspective of the trial differs from the townspeople in that they believe he is innocent. Scout, the story teller, looks at the town from the perspective of Boo Radley, a recluse, and his differing view. Scout began to learn the difference between right and wrong and

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Scout and Jem were told to read to Mrs. Dubose by their father for reasons they wouldn't understand. Jem made the first move onto having to read to Mrs. Dubose by whacking off the heads of her flowers because she was insulting his father. Jem’s father, Atticus, found out about Jem whacking off flower heads and told him to read to Mrs. Dubose every day for a certain time. Jem was mad he had to read to Mrs. Dubose but he continued to because his father told him to. When Jem was reading to Mrs. Dubose, Scout was wondering why she was forced to be there with her brother when he was reading. Scout was thinking “It suddenly came to me that each day we had been staying a little longer at Mrs. Dubose's, that the alarm clock went off a few minutes later every day."(Lee 145). The quote made the children realize that they were helping out others in the world with what they think others think about them The quote showed that they never knew what was happening in another person's life because they never experienced the same emotions. Scout started to feel bad for Jem because Mrs. Dubose was tormenting Jem every day. After the month was up, they were told to go and read to Mrs. Dubose by their father for another week. Jem and Scout went to read to Mrs.

Atticus was appointed to be the lawyer of Tom Robinson who was on trial for raping and beating Mayella Ewell. Tom was a black man who worked on a farm for Mr. Link Deas. During the trial, Tom Robinson had no evidence against him that could say he raped and beat Mayella Ewell. Tom looked off balance because his left arm was a foot shorter than his right arm, from when he tore the muscles in a cotton gin when he was ten years old. Tom Robinson went up to tell his version of the story, and it was different and more realistic then what the Ewells’ version of the events. The Ewell's stories collided against each other making it obvious they were making up stories. The Jurors left the room and went to discuss the outcome of the trial. The Jurors made a decision, and Jem thought that Tom wouldn't be guilty, so his "...hands were white from gripping the balcony rail, and his shoulder jerked as if each 'guilty' was a separate slab between them." (Lee 279). Atticus found out later that night, Tom ran from the sheriff who shot and killed him. After the trial , Atticus was talking to his kids about why Tom didn't win, when he said "There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads --they couldn't be fair if they tried. In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins. They're ugly, but those are the facts of life."