How To Judge In To Kill A Mockingbird

Everyone takes life for granted, but some people need to consider life from the view of someone else. In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee there are some wise words said by Atticus that Scout needs to take into consideration before being quick to judge people and quick to judge situations that she does not know enough about to judge. Before Scout judges people she needs to take a walk in other people's shoes.

Although not many bad things happen to Jem and Scout, they need to see how other people cope with things when something goes wrong and look at how they feel. Scout felt very included until some things changed. “Until Jem and Dill excluded me from their plans, she was only another lady in the neighborhood, but a relatively

“They were people, but they lived like animals. They can go to school any time they want to, when they show the faintest symptom of wanting an education” (Lee 40.) Scout has been told that the Ewell family is not a good one. They do not have everything that the Finches have so they have to do things differently which Scout thinks is weird. They get to break the trapping rules because Mr. Ewell can not keep a job that will let him provide for his family which means that their only way of getting food is to catch it. Scout is also very young which makes it harder to understand why some kids don’t have the best families. “The thing is, what i'm tryin’ to say is--they do get on a lot better without me, I can’t help them any. They ain’t mean. They buy me everything I want, but it’s now you’ve-got-it-go-play-with-it. You’ve got a roomful of things. I-got-you-that-book-so-go-read-it” (lee 191.) When Dill tells Scout this he is trying to tell her that his family doesn’t dislike him, it’s just that his family is used to life without him so they get him what he wants so he is out of their hair. Scout is confused but she has to look at it from his perspective and see that he wants to have a family like hers where they actually have a good relationship with their parents and their parents teach them things and want them

“Some folks don’t-- like the way I live. Now I could say the hell with ‘em, I don’t care if they don’t like it. I do say I don’t care if they don’t like it, right enough--but I don’t say the hell with ‘em, see?” (Lee 268.) Scout thought that Mr. Raymond was just a crazy drunk man but when they went to talk to him they found out something different. When they talked to him Scout realized that she judged him too fast and that he is actually a nice man who has a different opinion. He was friends with the negroes which was different from everyone else but Scout saw that it may not be a bad thing to be different once she saw it from his perspective. When Scout thought about it and looked at it from someone else’s perspective she saw that things were different. “Summer, and he watched his children’s hearts break. Autumn again, and Boo’s children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough” (Lee 374.) All this time Scout thought that Boo was just the crazy neighborhood kid when he was really a very nice person. Everyone told her that he was crazy and there were so many rumors which caused her to believe something that was not true and judge someone wrongly. She learned this after she met him because he was polite and he cared about