Examples Of Empathy In To Kill A Mockingbird

When reading To Kill a Mockingbird a fiction novel by Harper Lee,there are atrocities that will cause the reader to empathy for the people,because the people are misunderstood and disliked , this going for almost every character in the book in their own ways To have empathy is to understand what somebody is going through, being able to understand because you probably have been through the same or similar things. I think that a man more so a child should never go throw some of the things that Tom Robinson and Walter Cunningham go through , there misunderstood by everyone,mistreated by the other folks, both live and are victims of poverty . Tom Robinson and I are both misunderstood , hurt and victims of poverty making him one of

Tom was convicted of raping, Mayella said this to excuse him "I got something to say an' then I ain't gonna say it no more. That nigger yonder took advantage of me and' if you fine fancy gentlemen don't want a do nothing' about it then you're all yellow stinking' cowards, stinking' cowards, the lot of you." (pg. 251 TKAM) Tom was getting accused of raping Mayella when we all know his didn’t. Lots of the times I get the blame for things that I did not do and I still get in trouble for it. As a black male there is so much hate in the world let alone in the south in the 1930’s such as “In ones and twos, men got out of the cars. Shadows became substance as lights revealed solid shapes moving toward the jail door. Atticus remained where he was. The men hid him from view. “He in there, Mr. Finch?” (pg. 202 TKAM) one man asked the men want Tom killed and hurt. I can relate

Walter was poor and “He didn’t forget his lunch, he didn’t have any”(pg. 26 TKAM) Walter never had anything to eat meaning he had nothing at home to eat. When I was younger I remember having nothing at home to eat sometimes the schools I went to, you would have to pay to get lunch and I did not have the money to eat sometimes. Walter would never "took anything off of anybody, they get along on what they have. They don’t have much, but they get along on it.”(pg. 26 TKAM) Walter did not take anything from no one he could not pay. I did the same thing most of the time; someone would try to give me something but I would play it off and not take it and act like everything was good. A childhood should be filled with good memories and have a nice life but this is the real world and everything is not like