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Perspective In To Kill A Mockingbird

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Sulaiman 1 Elena Sulaiman Mrs. Ritter Honors English 9/Hour 2 16 December 2022 Perspective Lots of people struggle to consider other people’s perspective and how they feel in certain situations. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, there is a lot of discrimination and injustice going on. However, not everyone can see what's going on. For example, Scout witnesses all these terrible things but doesn't totally understand what was really going on. After Scout's first day of school, she and Atticus had talked about her problem with the teacher. Atticus tells Scout, “ You never really understand a person until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” (Lee 39). You can't judge one without trying to understand why they behave the way they do. Scout takes this lesson to heart and applies it to situations she gets into. Viewing the other persons’ perspective affects some opinions on them. …show more content…

Scout says to Atticus, “If Walter and I put ourselves in her shoes we’d have seen it was an honest mistake on her part” (40). Scout is considering Miss Caroline's perspective, realizing that she and Walter shouldn’t blame Miss Caroline for a mistake. When Scout says,“We could not expect her to learn all Maycomb’s ways in one day, and we could not hold her responsible when she knew no better.” (40) Scout shows that she understands that it’s unfair of her to expect Miss Caroline to know everything about the town when it was only her first day. At the beginning of the first day of school, Scout and Miss Caroline start off on the wrong foot which leaves negative opinions. So after talking to

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