Examples Of Scout's Shoes In To Kill A Mockingbird

In my opinion, the hardest lesson to learn in a lifetime is the lesson of walking in another person's shoes. This is the hardest lesson to learn because it is human nature to make evaluations about everything and then make decisions upon those evaluations. In the amazing novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, this is the main theme. Now, I will be evaluating two of the many examples of the hardest lesson in human life from the novel. The first example of the theme is when Walter was being beat beat up by Scout for accidentally setting her off on the wrong foot. This, of course, was not Walter’s fault but Scout did not think about the hardships of Walter’s life and poverty in his family. If scout could have used empathy and “walked in his shoes” she would

Scout learned that everyone is equal as a person and not just a lesser living person. This also teaches myself and other people to apply this to our own lives. For example, if you see a person on the street ragged and asking for money, most people think that they should just get a job or do something productive. In reality we should think more widely and just think about what happened to that poor man to get him to this point. Think about all the things that he has lost instead of comparing him to your own life and luck. The second Mockingbird theme would rest with Mayella. In the novel, Mayella is portrayed as an antagonist because she was a part of Tom Robinson's death. If you look closer you can analyze that Mayella has a sad life. In the trial it says “The relief checks were far from enough to feed the family, and there was a strong suspicion that papa drank it up anyway…. The weather was seldom cold enough to require shoes, but when it was you could make dandy ones from strips of old tires…. and it was everybody for himself as far as keeping clean went” (Lee